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Ponderosa Pine Forests

Links to Information on Plant Species

We have used the USDA Plants database as our authority for the scientific names for plants. On our pages for each species, we do not link to that site because they no longer have distinct pages for each species. If you want information from that site, you must go there and search on genus and species.

Sections: - Trees | Shrubs | Forbs and half-shrubs | Grasses and grasslike plants -

- Representative Animal Species -

Trees

quaking aspen
Rocky Mountain Douglas Fir
alligator juniper
Gambel oak
ponderosa pine
Arizona walnut
Populus tremuloides Michx.
Pseudotsuga menziesii var. glauca Franco
Juniperus deppeana Steud.
Quercus gambelii Nutt.
Pinus ponderosa Laws.
Juglans major (Torr.) Heller

Shrubs

Utah serviceberry
cliffrose
common chokecherry
New Mexico locust
greenleaf manzanita
buckbrush
mountain mahogany
turbinella oak
Woods' rose
sumac
buckthorn
hawthorn
Oregon grape
broom snakeweed
Carruth sagebrush
Amelanchier utahensis Koehne
Cowania mexicana D. Don.
Prunus virginiana L.
Robinia neomexicana A. Gray
Arctostaphylos patula Greene
Ceanothus fendleri Gray
Cercocarpus spp.
Quercus turbinella Greene
Rosa woodsii Rybd.
Rhus spp.
Rhamnus spp.
Crataegus spp.
Mahonia repens (Lindl.) G. Don
Gutierrezia sarothrae Pursh
Artemisia carruthii

Forbs and half-Shrubs

yarrow
lupine
meadowrue
sagebrush
Lambert crazyweed
broom groundsel
pingue
arrowhead
twolobe larkspur
American vetch
grassleaf peavine
Fremont's geranium
pyrola
elkweed
Dakota verbena
Rocky Mountain sage
aster
common sunflower
orange sneezeweed
thistle
salsify
spreading fleabane
trailing fleabane
showy goldeneye
western ragweed
Achillea spp.
Lupinus spp.
Thalictrum fendleri Gray
Artemisia spp.
Oxytropis lambertii Prush.
Senecio spartioides Torr & Gray
Hymenoxys richardsonii Hook.
Sagittaria cuneata Sheld.
Delphinium nuttallianum Pritz. ex Walp.
Vicia americana Muhl.
Lathyrus graminifolius Wats.
Geranium caespitosum James var. fremontii (Torr. ex Gray) Dorn
Pyrola chlorantha Sw.
Frasera speciosa Dougl. ex Griseb.
Verbena bipinnatifida Nutt.
Salvia reflexa Hornem.
Aster spp.
Helianthus annuus L.
Helenium hoopesii Gray
Cirsium spp.
Tragopogon spp.
Erigeron divergens T. & G.
Erigeron flagellaris Gray
Viguiera multiflora Nutt. Blake
Ambrosia psilostachya

Grasses and grasslike plants

Arizona fescue
Kentucky bluegrass
mutton bluegrass
pine dropseed
black dropseed
spike muhly
mountain muhly
bottlebrush squirreltail
bluestem wheatgrass
prairie junegrass
mountain brome
fringed brome
foxtail brome
tall mannagrass
orchardgrass
quackgrass
perennial ryegrass
prairie wedgescale
timber danthonia
bluejoint reedgrass
Pringle needlegrass
blue grama
switchgrass
big bluestem
sedge
Festuca arizonica Vasey
Poa pratensis L.
Poa fendleriana (Steud.) Vasey
Blepharoneuron tricholepis (Torr.) Nash.
Sporobolus interruptus Vasey
Muhlenbergia wrightii Vasey
Muhlenbergia montana (Nutt.) Hitchc.
Sitanion hystrix (Nutt.) J.G. Smith
Agropyron smithii Rydb.
Koeleria cristata (L.) Pers.
Bromus marginatus Neis
Bromus ciliatus L.
Bromus rubens L.
Glyceria elata Nash
Dactylis glomerata L.
Agropyron repens L.
Lolium perenne L.
Sphenopholis obtusata Michx.
Danthonia intermedia Vasey
Calamgrostis canadensis Michx.
Stipa pringlei Seribn.
Bouteloua gracilis (H.B.K.) Lag.
Panicum virgatum L.
Andropogon gerardii Vitm.
Carex spp.

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