Desert Shrublands and Playas - Mountains and Plains: The Ecology of Wyoming Landscapes - page 136

table 8.1. Some characteristic plants of desert shrublands in Wyoming a

Saltbush
shrubland

Mixed desert
shrubland

Greasewood
shrubland

Saltgrass
meadow

Desert
grassland common name Latin name

SHRUBS
Basin big sagebrush Artemisia tridentata ssp .

tridentata

ravines ravines — — —

Birdfoot sagebrush Artemisia pedatifida X — — — —

Bud sagebrush Picrothamnus desertorum X X — — —

Little (alkali) sagebrush Artemisia arbuscula ssp.

longiloba

X — X — —

Wyoming big sagebrush Artemisia tridentata ssp .

wyomingensis

— X — — X

Douglas rabbitbrush Chrysothamnus viscidiflorus — X — — X

Rubber rabbitbrush Ericameria nauseosa — X — — —

Fourwing saltbush Atriplex canescens — X — — —

Gardner's saltbush Atriplex gardneri X — X — —

Shadscale saltbush Atriplex confertifolia — X X — —

Greasewood Sarcobatus vermiculatus — — X — —

Spineless horsebrush Tetradymia canescens — X — — X

Spiny hopsage Grayia spinosa — X — — —

Winterfat Krascheninnikovia lanata — X — — —

GRASSeS
Alkali sacaton Sporobolus airoides — — X X —

Blue grama Bouteloua gracilis — — — — X

Bluebunch wheatgrass Pseudoroegneria spicata — — — — X

thickspike wheatgrass Elymus lanceolatus — — — — X

Western wheatgrass Pascopyrum smithii X X X X X

Bottlebrush squirreltail Elymus elymoides — — X X —

Foxtail barley Hordeum jubatum — — — X —

indian ricegrass Achnatherum hymenoides — X — — X

needle-and-thread grass Hesperostipa comata — — — — X

nuttall's alkaligrass Puccinellia nuttalliana — — X X —

Salina wildrye Leymus salinus ssp. salinus — — — — —

Saltgrass Distichlis spicata — — — X —

Sandberg bluegrass Poa secunda — X — — X

FoRBS
Goosefoot Chenopodium spp . — X — X —

Green molly Bassia americana — X — — X

Hooker's sandwort Arenaria hookeri — X — — X

nuttall's povertyweed Monolepis nuttalliana — — X X —

Prairie (fringed) sagewort Artemisia frigida — X — — X