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Sarcobatus - one species: greasewood

caryophylloid dicot genus - genus of relatively early dicotyledonous plants including mostly flowers

Chenopodiaceae, family Chenopodiaceae, goosefoot family - includes spinach and beets

black greasewood, greasewood, Sarcobatus vermiculatus - low hardy much-branched spiny shrub common in alkaline soils of western America

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The Property is located within Sarcobatus Valley that is approximately 30 km (19 miles) long and 20 km (12 miles) wide.

Iconic Announces Additional Metallurgical Results Bonnie Claire Lithium Project, Nevada

Sarcobatus vermiculalus N 1.944 1.682 3.204 (Hook.) Torr.

Presence of both Active and Inactive Colonies of Prairie Dogs Contributes to Higher Vegetation Heterogeneity at the Landscape Scale

Sampled plants included the following forage types and genera: shrubs (Artemisia, Chrysothamnus, Eriogonum, Krascheninnikovia, Salix, Sarcobatus); forbs (Alyssum, Atriplex, Phlox); grasses (Agropyron, Bromus, Oryzopsis, Poa); sedges-rushes (Carex); conifers (Juniperus); and lichens.

Seasonal foraging strategies of migrant and nonmigrant Pronghorn in Yellowstone National Park

(2003) also reported disequilibrium between plant and soil water potentials in plants from the genera Chrysothamnus and Sarcobatus. James et al.

Soil water energetic status and cowpea beans irrigated with saline water

Salt desert shrub ecoregions, characterized by less precipitation and alkaline soils, comprise approximately 19% of the OTR and are dominated by Gardner's saltbush Atriplex gardneri, shadscale Atriplex confertifolia, black greasewood Sarcobatus vermiculatus, mock goldenweed and cushion-like phlox, with sporadic inclusions of Wyoming big sagebrush and basin big sagebrush A.

Greater sage-grouse apparent nest productivity and chick survival in Carbon County, Wyoming

canescens), rabbitbrush (Ericameria nauseosa), big sagebrush (Artemesia tridentata), and greasewood (Sarcobatus vermiculatus).

Small mammals of Pyramid Lake and Anaho Island (Nevada)