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  • Consider alternative approaches, too, such as throwing in a yellow-flowered plant, such as Phlomis fruticosa, for contrast.

    Stumped? Tulips and blue plants Lia Leendertz 2010

  • Paspalum pulchellum, Tonina fluviatilis and Utricularia subulata and in drier areas the grasses Fimbristylis paradoxa and Declieuxia fruticosa with palm thickets Acoelorraphe wrightii and Pinus caribaea var. hondurensis, 20-25 m tall.

    Río Plátano Biosphere Reserve, Honduras 2008

  • The vegetation of the saline coastline, mudflats and islands is halophytic, predominantly Sesuvium portulocastrum, Salsola baryosma, Salicornia senegalensis (R), Suaeda fruticosa and Arthrocnemon spp.

    Banc d'Arguin National Park, Mauritania 2009

  • Tall willow (Salix spp.) and alder (Alnus fruticosa) shrubs as well as dwarf birch (Betula exilis and B. nana) form dense thickets in the southern part of the tundra zone and often have outlier populations that extend far to the north in favorable habitats [18].

    Implications of current species distributions for future biotic change in the Arctic 2009

  • Dominant shrub species include Potentilla fruticosa, a species abundant throughout the eastern Himalayan alpine scrub and also in the mountains of North America, willow (Salix oritopne), and Caragana spp., a thorny legume more typical of dry steppe habitats.

    Qilian Mountains subalpine meadows 2008

  • Species richness declines and dominant plants include the grass Stipa purpurea and shrubs Potentilla fruticosa and Lonicera tibetica in the east, with Caragana versicolor in the west.

    Yarlung Zambo arid steppe 2008

  • In the large Djerid Basin, the central portion is covered by stands of Halocnemum strobilaceum (the most adapted phanerogam species) and then followed by vegetation belts of Salsola tetrandra, Suaeda mollis and Suaeda fruticosa.

    Saharan halophytics 2008

  • Lower-elevation areas may have dwarf shrubs like Ajania and Potentilla fruticosa as well as herbaceous legumes like Astragalus, Oxytropis, and Thermopsis.

    Central Tibetan Plateau alpine steppe 2008

  • This kind of habitat is poor in plant species; the most common are represented by Atriplex pentandra, Heterostachya ritteriana, Salicornia fruticosa, Batis maritima, and Sesuvium portulacastrum.

    Araya and Paria xeric scrub 2008

  • The central Iberian plateaus and Ebro basin host significant inland drainage systems with fluctuating, shallow, saline swamps, characterized by numerous halophyte species such as Suaeda fruticosa, Microcnemum coralloides, Aizoon hispanicus, Arthrocnemum glaucum, and Limonium ovalifolium.

    Iberian sclerophyllous and semi-deciduous forests 2008

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