| Type: | Alliance |
| Parent classification: | Colorado Plateau Pinyon - Juniper Woodland |
| Scientific Name: | Pinus edulis - Juniperus osteosperma Colorado Plateau Shrubby Open Woodland Alliance |
| Location: | United States (New Mexico, Arizona, Utah, Colorado, California) |
| Description: | This open woodland and scrub alliance is characteristic of exposed rocky mesatops and canyon slopes and rims in the Colorado Plateau and is characterized by diagnostic tree species Pinus edulis that forms a very open to moderately dense, short tree layer often with Juniperus osteosperma and an understory lacking or dominated by an open to moderately dense layer of shrubs (>10% cover) or, if less, then exceeding cover of grasses. |
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