Great Plains and Grassland Representative Species

Artemisia arbuscula / little sage brush

Tetradymia canescens / horse brush, black sage

Cylindropuntia whipplei / Whipple's cholla

Opuntia polyacantha / hair-spine prickly pear

Atriplex canescens / four-wing salt bush

Atriplex confertifolia / shadscale

Krascheninnikovia lanata / winter fat

Ephedra nevadensis / Nevada Joint-Fir

Ephedra torreyana / Torrey's mormon tea

Eriogonum corymbosum / crisp leaf buckwheat

Asclepias latifolia / broad-leaf milkweed

Asclepias subverticillata / horsetail milkweed

Chaetopappa ericoides / small-flower aster

Thelesperma megapotamica / Hopi tea green-thread

Salsola tragus / Russian thistle, tumble weed

Astragalus praelongus / stinking milk-vetch

Boerhavia torreyana / Torrey's spiderling

Achnatherum hymenoides / Indian rice grass

Andropogon gerardii / big bluestem

Bouteloua eriopoda / black grama

Hesperostipa comata / needle and thread grass

Hilaria jamesii / galleta grass

Hopia obtusa / vine mesquite

Schizachyrium scoparium / little bluestem

Sporobolus airoides / alkali sacaton

Sporobolus cryptandrus / sand dropseed

Solanum elaeagnifolium / silver-leaf nightshade