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Home Flagstaff Lab Managing Arid and Semi-Arid Watersheds Semi-Desert Shrublands Plant Species
 

Ponderosa Pine Forests: Plant Species

Sections: - Shrubs - Forbs - Perennial grasses and grasslike plants -

Shrubs

blackbrush
big sagebrush
fourwing saltbrush
common winterfat		 Coleogyne ramosissima Torr.
Artemisia tridentata Nutt.
Atriplex canescens (Pursh) Nutt.
Krascheninnikovia lanata (Pursh) Moq.

Forbs

wild buckwheat
Indianwheat
crazyweed
lupine
milkvetch
phlox		 Eriogonum spp.
Plantago purshii Roem. & Schult.
Oxytropis spp.
Lupinus spp.
Astragalus spp.
Phlox spp.

Perennial grasses and grasslike plants

mutton bluegrass
sand dropseed
blue grama
sideoats grama
galleta
prairie junegrass
needle-and-thread
vine-mesquite
Indian ricegrass
alkali sacaton
bottlebrush squirreltail
threeawn
fluffgrass
hairy tridens
slim tridens
tumblegrass
bluestem wheatgrass		 Poa fendleriana (Steud.) Vasey
Sporobolus cryptandrus (Torr.) Gray
Bouteloua gracilis (H.B.K.) Steud.
Bouteloua curtipendula (Michx.) Torr.
Hilaria jamesii (Torr.) Benth.
Koeleria cristata (L.) Pers.
Stipa comata Trin. & Rupr.
Panicum obtusum H.B.K.
Oryzopsis hymenoides (Roem. & Schult.) Ricker
Sporobolus airoides Torr.
Sitanion hystrix (Nutt.) J. G. Smith
Aristida spp.
Dasyochloa pulchella (H.B.K.) Hitchc.
Tridens pilosus (Buckl.) Hitchc.
Tridens muticus (Torr.) Nash
Schedonnardus paniculatus (Nutt.) Trel.
Agropyron smithii Rydb.

 

Semi-Desert Shrublands: Animals | Plants | Climate

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