Seed Germination

Clematis ligusticifolia

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Seed Germination

Rosa Woodsii

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Tamarisk @ HDR FALL 2016 – “BEFORE” • Existing

vegetation • Coyote Willow • Cattails • Greasewood • Western Sage • Western

Clematis • Wild Mint • Marsh

Sunflower • Desert Globe

Mallow • Several grasses

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Tamarisk @ HDR FALL 2016 – “AFTER” • Removal, • Stump

treatment, & • Revegetation

• Dogwood • 4-Wing Saltbush • Desert Globe

Mallow • Sweet flag • Western Iris

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Tamarisk @ HDR FALL 2016 – “AFTER” (closeup)

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Current Species GRASSES • Distichlis spicata - Inland saltgrass • Elymus lanceolatus - Streambank wheatgrass, Thickspike • Muhlenbergia asperifolia - Alkali muhly, Scratchgrass • Oryzopsis hymenoides - Indian ricegrass • Pascopyrum smithii - Western wheatgrass, Bluestem, Bluejoint • Sporobolus airoides - Alkali sacaton, Finetop, Saltgrass SEDGES • Carex aquatilis - Water sedge, Leafy tussock • Carex nebrascensis - Nebraska sedge RUSHES • Juncus balticus - Baltic rush, Arctic rush, Mountain rush • Juncus confusus (elixis) - Colorado rush • Scirpus (Schoenoplectus) acutus - Hardstem rush, Tule rush • Scirpus fluviatilis (Bolboshoenus maritumus var. f.) - River rush,

Torreys rush • Scirpus (Schoenoplectus) maritimus (Bolboschoenus maritimus Palla) -

Alkali rush, Cosmopolitan rush • Scirpus microcarpus - Small fruited rush, Red stem rush, Panicled rush,

Mountain Bog bulrush • Scirpus validus (Schoenoplectus tabernaemontani) - Soft stem rush,

Grey rush, Great rush FORBS • Clematis ligusticifolia – Western clematis, Western white clematis,

Western virgin’s bower, Creek clematis, Old Man’s Beard, Pepper vine • Iris missouriensis - Western blue iris, Western blue flag, Rocky

Mountain Iris • Mentha arvensis – Field mint, Wild mint, Corn mint • Spharalcea ambigua - Desert globemallow, Apricot mallow, Desert

Hollyhock

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SHRUBS • Atriplex canescens - Four wing saltbush, Chamiso,

Chamiza, Wingscale • Cornus sericea (stolonifera) - Redosier dogwood • Rhus trilobata – Three leaf sumac, Skunkbush sumac,

Fragrant sumac • Ribes cereum - Wax currant, Squaw currant, Whiskey currant • Rosa woodsii - Woods rose, Interior rose, Tehachapi rose • Salix exigua - Coyote Willows, Sandbar willow, Gray willow, Narrow-

leaved willow, Dusky willow • Shepherdia argentea - Silver buffaloberry, Thorny buffaloberry,

Bullberry TREES • Albus rubra – Red alder, Western alder • Populus angustifolia - Narrowleaf cottonwood, Bitter cottonwood,

Willow cottonwood, Willow-leaf cottonwood, Mountain cottonwood, Rydberg cottonwood, Smooth-bark cottonwood

• Populus fremontii - Freemont cottonwood, Poplar, Alamo cottonwood • Salix amygdaloides – Peachleaf willow, Wright willow, Almond willow NATURALIZED/ NON-NATIVE • Lycium barbarum - Goji berry, Wolf berry, Matrimony vine • Acorus calamus - Calamus, Sweet flag

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GRASSES • Distichlis spicata –

Inland saltgrass • Elymus lanceolatus –

Streambank wheatgrass, Thickspike

• Muhlenbergia asperifolia - Alkali muhly, Scratchgrass

• Oryzopsis hymenoides - Indian ricegrass

• Pascopyrum smithii - Western wheatgrass, Bluestem, Bluejoint

• Sporobolus airoides - Alkali sacaton, Finetop, Saltgrass

Current Species SHRUBS

• Atriplex canescens - Four wing saltbush, Chamiso, Chamiza, Wingscale

• Cornus sericea (stolonifera) - Redosier dogwood

• Rhus trilobata – Three leaf sumac, Skunkbush sumac, Fragrant sumac

• Ribes cereum - Wax currant, Squaw currant, Whiskey currant

• Rosa woodsii - Woods rose, Interior rose, Tehachapi rose

• Salix exigua - Coyote Willows, Sandbar willow, Gray willow, Narrow-leaved willow, Dusky willow

• Shepherdia argentea - Silver buffaloberry, Thorny buffaloberry, Bullberry

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Current Species SEDGES • Carex aquatilis - Water sedge,

Leafy tussock • Carex nebrascensis - Nebraska

sedge RUSHES • Juncus balticus - Baltic rush, Arctic

rush, Mountain rush • Juncus confusus (elixis) - Colorado

rush • Scirpus (Schoenoplectus) acutus -

Hardstem rush, Tule rush • Scirpus fluviatilis (Bolboshoenus

maritumus var. f.) - River rush, Torreys rush

• Scirpus (Schoenoplectus) maritimus (Bolboschoenus maritimus Palla) - Alkali rush, Cosmopolitan rush

• Scirpus microcarpus - Small fruited rush, Red stem rush, Panicled rush, Mountain Bog bulrush

• Scirpus validus (Schoenoplectus tabernaemontani) - Soft stem rush, Grey rush, Great rush

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Current Species FORBS

• Clematis ligusticifolia – Western clematis, Western white clematis, Western virgin’s bower, Creek clematis, Old Man’s Beard, Pepper vine

• Iris missouriensis - Western blue iris, Western blue flag, Rocky Mountain Iris

• Mentha arvensis – Field mint, Wild mint, Corn mint

• Spharalcea ambigua - Desert globemallow, Apricot mallow, Desert Hollyhock

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