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APPENDIX III

Average percent canopy coverage and percent frequency of plant taxa on slope areas of the bunchgrass-shrub type (*, less than 1 percent).

	South					West¹	SE¹
	I	II	III	IV	V	VI	VII
No. Plots:	34	34	34	34	34	25	25

Bluebunch wheatgrass	18/94	40/94	15/67	16/88	17/50	29/92	30/68
Bluegrass	6/56	15/88	5/44	1/12	1/6	18/88	14/32
Needle-and-thread	1/18	1/9					6/28
Ricegrass	6/47	*	9/47	3/35	4/18
Junegrass		2/38	*			1/8	9/32
Slender wheatgrass			6/24				6/32
Brome	*			2/3
Idaho fescue							13/32
Sedge		2/15
Grass Totals	31	60	35	22	22	48	82

Astragalus	4/38		2/21	1/3		10/80	1/8
Bastard toadflax	1/15	*		*	2/29
Fleabane	*	7/53		1/9
Aster		3/35	4/38	1/9	5/38
Elk Thistle		2/3
Selaginella		3/9
Hackelia				2/15
Lupine				3/6			7/32
Balsamroot				2/6	2/9
Buckwheat				1/9	1/12
Flax					5/15
Forb Totals	5	15	6	11	15	10	8

Phlox	6/74	5/65	6/50		1/6	6/84
Leptodactylon	*	2/32		*
Douglas rabbitbrush	1/15	3/29	2/32		1/3	23/92
Rubber rabbitbrush	2/9	4/12	6/44		1/3
Fringed sagewort	*	1/15	3/15
Big sagebrush				3/9			22/64
Serviceberry				1/6	5/35		754²
Horsebrush					2/9
Bitterbrush					*		17/36
Snowberry							7/36
Shrub Totals	9	15	17	4	10	29	46

¹ From Martinka (1965).

² Plants per acre.

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