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4-50 <br /> perennial forbs, 0.2 percent; annual forbs, 0.2 percent; and <br />• cryptogams, 1.7 percent. See Table 4.5-185. <br />Trees and shrubs <br />cover within the <br />29.8 percent, is <br />include big sage <br />low rabbitbrush, <br />viridis. <br />account for 86 percent of the vegetation <br />community. Utah juniper, with a cover of <br />the overwhelming dominant. Shrubs present <br />brush, fourwing saltbush, shadscale saltbush, <br />broom snakeweed, and Mormon tea Ephedra <br />Herbaceous cover is quite low at 3.7 percent. Cheatgrass <br />accounts for 84 percent of all herbaceous cover. Other herba- <br />ceous plants present include Salina wildrye and Sandberg blue- <br />grass, both perennial native grasses, and native and introduced <br />weedy species such as blue mustard, hoary aster and cryptantha <br />cryptantha sp. <br />Shrub densities within the vegetation type were quite low at <br />• 6.04 individuals/125 m2 or 196 individuals/ac. Broom snake- <br />weed accounted for 58 percent of the plants present. Other <br />common shrubs included big sagebrush and low rabbitbrush. <br />Fourwing saltbush and shadscale saltbush were sparsely repre- <br />sented. See Table 9.5-195. <br />Shrub heights within the vegetation type are quite variable, <br />ranging from a low of 17.3 cm for low rabbitbrush to a high <br />of 122.8 cm for fourwing saltbush. Broom snakeweed, the dominant <br />plant, had an average height of 30.6 cm. See Table 4.5-195. <br />Tree densities are relatively low at 5.7 individuals/125 m2 or <br />184 individuals/ac. Utah juniper accounts for 97 percent of <br />the trees and pinyon pine contributes the remaining 3 percent. <br />See Table 4.5-205. <br /> Utah juniper heights ranged from 2 to 5 m and DBH' s averaged <br />• 11.2 cm but ranged from 3-28 cm. Only one pinyon pine was <br />