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Pinyon-Juniper Woodlands

Links to Information on Plant Species

Sections: - Trees | Shrubs | Half-shrubs | Other woody perennials | Forbs -
- Perennial grasses and grasslike plants | Annual grasses -

- Representative Animal Species -

Trees

alligator juniper
one-seed juniper
Utah juniper
common pinyon pine
singleleaf pine
Juniperus deppeana Steud.
Juniperus monosperma (Engelm.) Sarg.
Juniperus osteosperma (Torr.) Little
Pinus edulis Engelm.
Pinus monophylla Torr & Frem.

Shrubs

Fremont's mahonia
blackbrush
cliffrose
dalea
gray horsebrush
shrub liveoak
toadflax penstemon
rubber rabbitbrush
big sagebrush
fringed sagebrush
skunkbush sumac
ephedra
winterfat
Mahonia fremontii Torr.
Coleogyne ramosissima Torr.
Cowania mexicana Don
Dalea spp.
Tetradymia canescens DC
Quercus turbinella Greene
Penstemon linarioides Gray
Chrysothamnus nauseosus (Pall.) Britton
Artemisia tridentata Nutt.
Artemisia frigida Willd.
Rhus trilobata Nutt.
Ephedra spp.
Krascheninnikovia lanata Pursh.

Half-shrubs

rough menodora
broom snakeweed
Menodora scabra Gray
Gutierrezia sarothrae (Pursh) Britt. & Rusby

Other woody perennials

agave
cholla and pricklypear
mammillaria
sacahuista
yucca
Agave spp.
Opuntia spp.
Mammillaria spp.
Nolina microcarpa Wats
Yucca spp.

Forbs

Amaranth
aster
bladderpod
broom groundsel
bundleflower
deervetch
Arizona evolvulus
Lewis' flax
fleabane
globemallow
annual goldeneye
slender goldenweed
groundsel
common hoarhound
hymenopappus
hymenoxys
knotweed
milkvetch
groundcover milkvetch
nightshade
penstemon
desert phlox
pussytoes
common russian thistle
slimflower scurfpea
euphorbia
verbena
Wright's eriogonum
western yarrow
Amaranthus spp.
Aster spp.
Lesquerella spp.
Senecio spartioides Torr. & Gray
Desmanthus cooleyi (Eaton) Trel.
Lotus spp.
Evolvulus arizonicus Gray
Linum lewisii Pursh
Erigeron spp.
Sphaeralcea spp.
Viguiera annua (Jones) Blake
Haplopappus gracilis (Nutt.) Gray
Senecio spp.
Marrubium vulgare L.
Hymenopappus lugens Greene more
Hymenoxys cooperi (Gray) Cockerell
Polygonum spp.
Astragalus spp.
Astragalus humistratus Gray
Solanum spp.
Penstemon spp.
Phlox austromontana Coville
Antennaria spp.
Salsola kali L.
Psoralea tenuiflora Pursh
Euphorbia spp.
Verbena spp.
Eriogonum wrightii Torr.
Achillea lanulosa Nutt.

Perennial grasses and grasslike plants

mutton bluegrass
sand dropseed
black grama
blue grama
sideoats grama
curly mesquite
galleta
prairie junegrass
red muhly
ring muhly
spike muhly
needle-and-thread
vine-mesquite
Indian ricegrass
bottlebrush squirreltail
Fendler threeawn
fluffgrass
hairy tridens
slim tridens
tumblegrass
bluestem wheatgrass
wolftail
Poa fendleriana (Steud.) Vasey
Sporobolus cryptandrus (Torr.) Gray
Bouteloua eriopoda Torr.
Bouteloua gracilis (H.B.K.) Steud.
Bouteloua curtipendula (Michx.) Torr.
Hilaria belangeri (Steud.) Nash)
Hilaria jamesii (Torr.) Benth.
Koeleria cristata (L.) Pers.
Muhlenbergia repens (Presl.) Hitchc.
Muhlenbergia torreyi (Kunth) Bush
Muhlenbergia wrightii Vasey
Stipa comata Trin. & Rupr.
Panicum obtusum H.B.K.
Oryzopsis hymenoides (Roem. & Schult.
Sitanion hystrix (Nutt.) J. G. Smith
Aristida purpurea Steud.
Dasyochloa pulchella (H.B.K.) Hitchc.
Tridens pilosus (Buckl.) Hitchc.
Tridens muticus (Torr.) Nash
Schedonnardus paniculatus (Nutt.) Trel.
Agropyron smithii Rydb.
Lycurus phleoides H.B.K.

Annual grasses

needle grama
sixweeks grama
sixweeks threeawn
Bouteloua aristidoides (H.B.K.) Griseb.
Bouteloua barbata Lag.
Aristida adscensionis L.
Pinyon-Juniper Woodlands

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