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  • Vegetation includes mostly desert shrubs, such as sotol, lechuguilla, yucca, ocotillo, lotebush, tarbush, and pricklypear, with a sparse intervening cover of black grama and other grasses.

    Ecoregions of New Mexico (EPA) 2009

  • Vegetation is mostly mid and tall grasses such as seacoast bluestem, switchgrass, gulfdune paspalum, fringeleaf paspalum, sandbur, purple threeawn, pricklypear, and catclaw with an overstory of southern live oak and honey mesquite trees.

    Ecoregions of Texas (EPA) 2009

  • Besides honey mesquite, wolfberry, sand sagebrush, yucca, and pricklypear cacti may be mixed with the grasses.

    Ecoregions of Texas (EPA) 2009

  • Vegetation includes mostly desert shrubs, such as sotol, lechuguilla, yucca, ocotillo, lotebush, tarbush, and pricklypear, with a sparse intervening cover of black grama and other grasses.

    Ecoregions of Texas (EPA) 2009

  • Big sagebrush, rabbitbrush, pricklypear, bluebunch wheatgrass, and Idaho fescue dominate on fine-textured soils; Rocky Mountain juniper, Utah juniper, and mountain mahogany woodlands occur on rock outcrops.

    Ecoregions of Colorado (EPA) 2008

  • As you move into the western rangeland you often get into more brush species like mesquite, huisache and pricklypear. "

    Media Newswire media-newswire.com 2010

  • As you move into the western rangeland you often get into more brush species like mesquite, huisache and pricklypear. "

    Media Newswire media-newswire.com 2010

  • As you move into the western rangeland you often get into more brush species like mesquite, huisache and pricklypear. "

    Media Newswire media-newswire.com 2010

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