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bottoms where mountain run off
evaporates to
create saline soils is the
shadscale zone.
Plants in this
community are
adapted to
living with very little...
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Shadscale scrub is a
plant community and
vegetation type that
occurs in
upper elevations of the
Mojave Desert and
lower elevations of the
Great Basin...
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Atriplex confertifolia, the
shadscale or
spiny saltbush, is a
species of
evergreen shrub in the
family Amaranthaceae,
which is
native to the
western United...
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Shadscale scrub type.
Halophyte plants must deal with salt in the soil, but in less high
concentrations than are
found in the
alkali sink
shadscale scrub...
- is
itself typically devoid of vegetation, they are
commonly ringed by
shadscale,
saltbrush and
other salt-tolerant
plants that
provide critical winter...
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Shadscale (Atriplex confertifolia, Amaranthaceae) is a
halophytic shrub common in
steppes of
western North America....
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narrowleaf yucca,
juniper trees,
barberry sagebrush, greasewood,
white sage,
shadscale, four-winged saltbush.
Rabbitbrush finds sanctuary in
disturbed areas...
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Tidwell Member at the type section,
Shadscale Mesa,
Emery County, Utah....
- pinyon–juniper
woodland (both in Munz))
Sagebrush scrub (same in Munz)
Shadscale scrub (same in Munz)
Alkali sink
scrub (same in Munz)
Joshua tree woodland...
- blackbrush, greasewood, saltbush, big sagebrush, low sagebrush, and
shadscale.
Higher elevations have more precipitation,
which allows drought-resistant...
