Crested Wheatgrass - Mixed Ruderal Desert Grassland
| Type: | Alliance | | Parent classification: | Great Basin-Intermountain Ruderal Dry Shrubland & Grassland | | Scientific Name: | Agropyron cristatum - Mixed Ruderal Desert Grassland Alliance | | Location: | United States (Wyoming, Utah, Idaho, Washington, Nevada, Arizona, California, Oregon, New Mexico, Colorado, Montana) | | Description: | This semi-arid interior western U.S. ruderal perennial grassland alliance is strongly dominated (>90% relative canopy cover) by invasive, exotic perennial grasses, especially Agropyron cristatum, which can occur as a near-monoculture or mixed grassland with other exotic perennial grasses such as Poa pratensis and exotic perennial forbs and annuals. | | Website: | View website |
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