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High Plains: Mesquite Shrubland
Area: 40,303 acres (16,310 ha)
Description of Mapped Type: This type is mapped over bottomland soils and is characterized
by open to relatively dense stands of mesquite in grazed grasslands. Common components in
the modern landscape include field brome, cheatgrass, prairie broomweed, annual ragweed,
silver bluestem, sideoats grama, blue grama, other grama species, buffalograss, plains
pricklypear, and little bluestem.
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