Following the juniper removal, the Scanlans observed resprouting of sagebrush and an increase in the density of native bunchgrasses. |
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Effect of fire on bunchgrasses of the sagebrush-grass region in southern Idaho. |
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Warm season perennial bunchgrasses were the dominant vegetation throughout. |
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They usually are surrounded by big sagebrush, native bunchgrasses, wildflowers, mosses, and lichens. |
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Soils of dry sand prairie communities lacked a dark A horizon, and the grasses, most of which were bunchgrasses, rarely exceeded 1 m in height. |
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There were Mojave mound cacti and blackbrush, widely spaced bunchgrasses and iodine bush, and treacherous, heavily armored cholla cacti. |
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Vernal pools, protected lagoons, grassy hills rich in bunchgrasses and, where the San Francisco Bay is today, ancient bison and mammoths roaming a vast grassland. |
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