shadscale, scrub, plant, community, vegetation, type, that, occurs, upper, elevations, mojave, desert, lower, elevations, great, basin, ecoregion, biome, characterized, salt, tolerant, plants, halophytes, located, higher, elevations, than, saltbush, scrub, pla. 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 ecoregion or biome characterized by salt tolerant plants halophytes It is located at higher elevations than the saltbush scrub plant community but shares some of its plant species 1 Flora editThe shadscale scrub vegetation type commonly includes 1 hop sage Grayia spinosa winter fat Krascheninnikovia lanata Shared members with higher elevation saltbush scrub include 1 goosefoot family Chenopodiaceae members four wing saltbrush Atriplex canescens shadscale Atriplex confertifolia cattle spinach or all scale Atriplex polycarpa Other species can include Calochortus excavatus Inyo County star tulip See also editSaltbush scrub plant community Natural history of the Mojave Desert Flora of the California desert regionsReferences edit a b c Mojave Desert Wildflowers Pam Mackay p 16 Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Shadscale scrub amp oldid 1115449776, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
