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Table 11. Cover Data -Sagebrush Extended Reference Area, Seneca IIW Mine, SCC, Routt Co., CO - 2004 Page 4 of 4 <br />• <br />PLANT SPECIES <br />Percent Foliar Cover' <br />• <br />• <br />---Sample Number--- <br />4 5 6 7 8 9 10 <br />NATIVE PERENNIAL GRASSES (c) (coot) <br />Carex geyen (1) P <br />Carex pensylvanica ssp. heliophila 2 <br />Ceratochloa carinata 1(2) ' P <br />Elymus elymoides (1) <br />Elymus lanceolatus fm. albicans 1 3(1) 1 5(3) P P P 2(2) <br />Elymus lanceolatus fm, dasystachya t 3 P 2 <br />Elymus longifalius P P P <br />Elymus trachycaulus (4) 1(1) t P 1 P 4 3(3) <br />Festuca arizonica P P 2(1) <br />Festuca saximontana - t <br />Hesperostlpa somata 2(1) <br />Koeleria macrantha 2 <br />Leymus triticoides . P <br />Pascopyrum smithii 1 1 8(t) P <br />Poa agassizensis 1(1) 4(2) 2 (1) (3) (2) 5 2 1 <br />Poa ampla - P <br />Poa compressa ~ P <br />Poa secunda ~ 1 <br />TOTAL NATIVE PERENNIAL GRASSES c 6 5 9 2 2 1 9 7 3 2 P 19 2 12 2 7 5 <br />INTRODUCED PERENNIAL GRASSES (wol) <br />Bromopsis inermis 11(7) P <br />Phleum pratense P <br />Thinop rum intermedium P <br />TOTAL INTRO. PERENNIAL GRASSES c -- - 11 7 P <br />NATIVE SHRUBS <br />Amelanchier alnifolia 1 P 1 3 P 2 <br />Chrysothamnus viscidiflorus 1(3} 1 5(4j 3 P 4(1) 9(2) <br />Padus virginiana ssp. melanorarya t(1) P - <br />Purshia tridentate P <br />Quercus gambelii 4 P <br />Ribes wolfii 1 <br />Seriphidium tridentatum 4 19(1) 14 15 35 14 33 5 18 <br />S m horicar os rotundifolius 50 1 22 1 11 1 28 3 3 3 18 2 P 1 40 2 25 2 <br />TOTAL NATIVE SHRUBS 56 2 46 5 27 1 48 7 42 3 35 2 37 1 6 42 2 52 4 <br />MOSS <br />Moss 1 1 <br />TOTAL MOSS 1 - 1 -- - <br />SUCCULENT <br />O untia of acantha P <br />TOTAL SUCCULENT P -- - - <br />Standing dead 9 11 5 1 3 4 4 3 6 <br />Litter 18 21 30 23 33 29 32 44 18 18 <br />Bare soil 13 13 15 ~ 14 7 16 10 8 12 9 <br />Rock 2 <br />TOTALS 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 <br />TOTAL VEGETATION COVER ~ 69 16 57 10 42 3 58 12 59 12 52 8 54 11 44 2 67 7 67 11 <br />GROUND COVER(Litter+Rock+Ve9+Sl.Dead) 87(16) 87(10) 85(3) 86(12) 93(12) 84(8) 90(11) 92(2) 68(7) 91(11) <br />SPECIES DENSITY (# of species/100 sq.m.) 23 29 27 24 24 31 21 27 25 26 <br />AVERAGE= 25.7 Std.Dev.= 2.9 <br />'P= Present within 1 m. of either side of the cover Vansect, but not quantitatively encountered. <br />