Plant Phenology in Galleta-Shadscale and Galleta-Sagebrush Associations

1 November 1980

journal article
research article
Published by JSTOR in Journal of Range Management

Vol. 33 (6) , 446-450
https://doi.org/10.2307/3898581

Abstract

Plant phenology is described for plant species in galleta grass (H. jamesii)-shadscale (A. confertifolia) and galleta grass-sagebrush (A. tridentata ssp. wyomingensis) associations in Hot Creek and Reveille Valleys of Nevada [USA]. Species within both plant associations were separated into early, late and indiscriminate flowering groups. Duration of the species phenology cycles varied from 72 days for Indian ricegrass Oryzopsis hymenoides) to 209 days for sagebrush. The phenological cycle of individual species varied as much as 62 days in length over a 4 yr period. Phenology of species common to both galleta grass-shadscale and galleta grass-sagebrush associations was similar in the same year. Differences in species phenology patterns are speculated to indicate different approaches to plant survival and species proliferation, but no one phenology pattern was obviously superior.

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