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The sand desert shrub (SDS) is a plant community, or vegetation type, found in the Colorado Plateau and Canyonlands region in areas of shifting sands or very sandy soils. [1]: 3 Dominant plant species include old man sage (Artemisia filifolia), yucca, Indian ricegrass (Stipa hymenoides), and wavy leaf oak (Quercus welshii).
The main plant communities, or zones, are woodlands, mountain woodlands, and grassland and shrub. The woodland zone, or pinyon-juniper woodland, covers the largest area.. It consists of open woodlands of short trees, mostly pinyon pine (Pinus edulis throughout the ecoregion, and Pinus monophylla subsp. fallax in the southwestern portion of the ecoregion) and species of juniper (Juniperus spp
The Colorado Plateau is a physiographic and ... Most electrical generation comes from coal fired power plants. The rocks of the Colorado Plateau are a source of oil ...
Flora of the Colorado Plateau Region, and its Canyonlands subregions, in the Southwestern United States.
The Rocky Mountains within Colorado contain 54 peaks that are 14,000 ft (4,300 m) or higher, known as fourteeners. [10] The mountains are timbered with conifers and aspen to the tree line, at an elevation of about 12,000 ft (3,700 m) in southern Colorado to about 10,500 ft (3,200 m) in northern Colorado; above this only alpine vegetation grows ...
Blackbush scrub, [1] or blackbrush scrub, [2] is a vegetation type of the Western United States deserts characterized by low growing, dark gray blackbush (Coleogyne ramosissima) as the dominant species. [1] [2] Blackbush often occurs in pure stands, giving a uniform dark gray appearance to the landscape. [1]
This category includes the native flora of Colorado, in the Western United States. Taxa of the lowest rank are always included. Higher taxa are included only if endemic. For the purposes of this category, "Colorado" is defined in accordance with the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions. That is, the geographic region is ...
The Mogollon Rim is a major floristic and faunal boundary, with species characteristic of the Rocky Mountains living on the top of the plateau, and species native to the Mexican Sierra Madre Occidental on the slopes below and in the Madrean Sky Islands (high, isolated mountain ranges) further south. [citation needed]