Definitions
Sorry, no definitions found. Check out and contribute to the discussion of this word!
Etymologies
Sorry, no etymologies found.
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word shadscale.
Examples
-
Vegetation is a sparse cover of arid land shrubs such as shadscale, greasewood, and Gardner saltbush.
-
Vegetation is a sparse cover of arid land shrubs such as shadscale, greasewood, and Gardner's saltbush, with some areas of big sagebrush.
-
The chief vegetation, sometimes called sagebrush steppe, is made up of sagebrush or shadscale mixed with short grasses.
-
Other important plants in the sagebrush belt are shadscale, fourwing saltbush, rubber rabbitbrush, spiny hopsage, and horsebrush.
Nevada-Utah Mountains Semidesert - Coniferous Forest - Alpine Meadow Province (Bailey) 2009
-
Because moisture increases and alkalinity decreases with elevation, the shrub community grades from the greasewood – shadscale community on the basin floor to a shrub community dominated by Wyoming big sagebrush and the endemic Lahontan sagebrush at higher elevations.
-
Characteristically, the basin floors have strongly saline and very alkaline soils that support black greasewood, inland saltgrass, shadscale, and bud sagebrush.
-
Rock outcrops occur; it is sparsely vegetated with mat saltbush, fourwing saltbush, greasewood, and shadscale.
-
The arid climate (just 6 inches of precipitation per year) supports desert shrubs and grasses: greasewood, Gardner saltbush, shadscale, alkali sacaton, and saltgrass.
-
The ecoregion was once dominated by shadscale, saltbush and greasewood, but most of the native vegetation has been removed for agriculture.
-
Salt tolerant shrubs, including black greasewood, fourwing saltbush, inland saltgrass, and shadscale, occur on alkaline outcrops.
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.