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Sedges, rushes, black greasewood, tufted hairgrass, and creeping wildrye occur in wetter areas.
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A variety of wildrye, bluegrass, and wheatgrass species once covered the basins, but most of the wet meadows and wetlands have been drained for agriculture.
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Vegetation is dominated by black greasewood, spiny hopsage, bud sagebrush, Wyoming big sagebrush, inland saltgrass, alkali sacaton, and basin wildrye.
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Sedges, rushes, tufted hairgrass, meadow barley, and creeping wildrye grow in wetter areas.
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Areas with stabilized sand dunes are dominated by alkali cordgrass, Indian ricegrass, blowout grass, alkali wildrye, and needle-and-thread.
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Shallow, clayey soils are common and often support medusahead wildrye, cheatgrass, and scattered shrubs.
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Sedges, meadow barley, creeping wildrye, and Nevada bluegrass are found in wetter areas.
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Today, cheatgrass, medusahead wildrye, and sagebrush occur and stock carrying capacity is low; native grasses are much rarer and vegetative regeneration capacity is more limited than in the cooler Ecoregion 12g.
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Plant Names and Notes:: 04 Small field of Elymus glaucus (Blue wildrye) within an exotic grassland: 08 Circium brevistylum (Indian thistle) often confused as a weed, looks like a young bullthistle, common on the new Harmony property: 12
WN.com - Articles related to In memory of Mother: Eat your vegetables part four 2010
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California oatgrass grows with purple needlegrass, squirreltail, junegrass, and red fescue next to patches of California fescue and the unique form of creeping wildrye.
The Berkeley Daily Planet, The East Bay's Independent Newspaper By Tom Butt 2010
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