CALCAREOUS ALPINE RIDGE
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Description
The reference state plant community is dominated by low-growing perennial grasses and forbs. Common grasses include alpine fescue, and Cusick's, Wheeler's, and timberline bluegrasses. Low-statured Engelmann's spruce trees line the lower margins of this plant community as a stunted krummholz shrub. Potential vegetative composition is about 35% grasses and grass-like plants, 55% forbs and 10% shrubs and low-statured trees. Approximate ground cover (basal and crown) is 10 to 25 percent.
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