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Table 5 Munger - Vegetation Cover - 2016 <br />Relative Ground Cover Summary <br />Percent Ground Cover Based on Point-Intercept Sampling <br />Area -->Phase III Bond <br />Release Block Reference Area <br />Grasses and Grass-likes <br />NP Achnatherum hymenoides Indian Ricegrass 1.47 0.06 <br />XAAegilops cylindrica Jointed Goatgrass 1.40 - <br />IPAgropyron cristatum Crested Wheatgrass 2.12 - <br />XAAnisantha tectorum Cheatgrass 17.30 55.79 <br />NP Bromus marginatus Mountain Brome - 0.23 <br />NP Elymus elymoides Bottlebrush Squirreltail - 0.06 <br />NP Elymus lanceolatus Thickspike Wheatgrass 0.64 - <br />NP Leymus cinereus Great Basin Wildrye 3.10 - <br />NP Nassella viridula Green Needlegrass 1.25 0.90 <br />NP Pascopyron smithii Western Wheatgrass 6.54 0.51 <br />NP Poa secunda / canbyi Sandberg Bluegrass 2.46 0.11 <br />Forbs <br />NP Astragalus sp.Milkvetch 0.87 - <br />XPCardaria draba Whitetop 1.28 7.68 <br />IACeratocephala orthoceras Curveseed Butterwort 0.04 0.40 <br />IAChorispora tenella Crossflower 1.81 - <br />NP Cirsium undulatum Wavyleaf Thistle 0.08 - <br />XPConvolvulus arvensis Field Bindweed 0.19 - <br />NA Descurainia pinnata Western Tansymustard - 0.06 <br />XAErodium cicutarium Redstem Stork's Bill 0.15 0.28 <br />NP Eucephalus glaucus Glaucous Aster 0.30 - <br />NB Grindelia squarrosa Curlycup Gumweed 1.28 - <br />NP Hedysarum boreale Northern Sweetvetch 11.26 0.17 <br />NA Helianthus annuus Common Sunflower 0.15 0.06 <br />IBLactuca serriola Prickly Lettuce 0.98 0.06 <br />NA Lappula redowskii Flatspine Stickseed - 0.11 <br />IALepidium densiflorum Common Pepperweed 1.06 1.64 <br />NP Linum lewisii Lewis Flax 0.83 - <br />NP Machaeranthera canescens Hoary Tansyaster - 0.06 <br />IBMelilotus officinalis Sweetclover 8.08 - <br />NP Penstemon palmeri Palmer's Penstemon 0.15 - <br />NA Plantago patagonica Woolly Plantain - 0.11 <br />IASisymbrium altissimum Tall Tumblemustard 0.04 0.17 <br />NP Sphaeralcea coccinea Scarlet Globemallow 0.11 0.17 <br />IPTaraxacum officinale common dandelion - 0.11 <br />IBTragopogon dubius False Salsify 0.15 0.17 <br />Sub-Shrubs <br />NP Gutierrezia sarothrae Snakeweed 2.42 3.67 <br />NP Krascheninnikovia lanata Winterfat 2.34 - <br />Shrubs & Trees <br />NP Atriplex canescens Fourwing Saltbrush 0.57 0.68 <br />NP Atriplex confertifolia Shadscale Saltbush 0.30 - <br />NP Chrysothamnus nauseosus Rubber Rabbitbrush 4.68 0.23 <br />NP Juniperus osteosperma Utah Juniper - 0.34 <br />NP Sarcobatus vermiculatus Greasewood - 1.24 <br />NP Seriphidium tridentatum tri.Basin Big Sagebrush 24.52 24.79 <br />NP Symphoricarpos rotundifolius Snowberry 0.08 0.17 <br />Summary by Lifeform: <br />Perennial Grasses 17.57 1.86 <br />Annual Grasses - - <br />Perennial Forbs 13.60 0.51 <br />Annual and Biennial Forbs 13.60 2.77 <br />Noxious / Aggressive Weeds 20.32 63.75 <br />Sub-Shrubs 4.76 3.67 <br />Shrubs and Trees 30.15 27.44 <br />Species Diversity Categories (Standards)† <br />Number of Perennial Species with >3% Rel. Cover 5 2 <br />Number of Cool-Season Perennial Grasses with >3% Rel. Cover 2 0 <br />Number of Species with >60% Rel. Cover 0 0 <br />N=Native, Nw=Warm Season, I=Introduced, X=Noxious A=Annual, B=Biennial, P=Perennial <br />† Diversity standards exclude invasive and noxious weed species. <br />CEDAR CREEK ASSOCIATES, Inc.A - 1 Munger Canyon Mine - 2016 <br />Phase III Bond Release - Appendix A