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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).
A map of the Colorado Plateau. The Four Corners region and the Colorado Plateau.. The Colorado Plateau is a physiographic and desert region of the Intermontane Plateaus, roughly centered on the Four Corners region of the southwestern United States.
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
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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 ...
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Flora of the Colorado Plateau Region, and its Canyonlands subregions, in the Southwestern United States. Pages in category "Flora of the Colorado Plateau and Canyonlands region" The following 38 pages are in this category, out of 38 total.
The Uncompahgre Plateau [1] in western Colorado is a distinctive large uplift part of the Colorado Plateau. Uncompahgre is a Ute word that describes the water: "Dirty Water" or "Rocks that make Water Red".