MLRA 35 - Colorado and Green River Plateaus Arizona, Colorado, and Utah 123,350 km2 (47,630 mi2)

Potential Natural Vegetation:
This area supports desert shrub and woodland vegetation. At high elevations, pinyon-juniper woodland and sagebrush have an understory of galleta, blue grama, black grama, and western wheatgrass. Galleta grass, alkali sacaton, Indian ricegrass, bottlebrush squirreltail, and needlegrasses intermixed with fourwing saltbush and winterfat grow at lower elevations. Greasewood and shadscale are part of the plant community on salty soils. At low elevations, blackbrush is dominant on soils that formed in parent materials of sandstone and limestone.

12/16/98