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Table 4. Cover Da[a - 1997 Reclamation Area, Seneca II Mine, SCC, Routt Co., CO • 2001 Page 4 of 4 <br />PLANT SPECIES <br />Percent Foliar Cover' <br />-Sample Number-- <br />5 6 7 8 9 10 13 14 <br />NATIVE PERENNIAL GRASSES (cool) <br />Achnatherum nelsonii P 2 <br />Ceratochloa carinata P 4 6 P <br />Criterion jubatum P P P P <br />Elymus lanceolatus fm. dasystachya P P 2 P P 2 2 <br />Elymus trachycaulus P P 4 P 2 6 P P <br />Festuca saximontana 8 2 P P P <br />Leymus cinereus P 6 2 2 P P P P 4 <br />Nassella viridula P 2 8 2 2 P <br />Pascopyrum smithii 2 4 12 2 P P i6 P P Z P <br />Poa agassizensis 4 2 2 <br />Poa compressa 2 P P 4 P <br />Poa secunda P P P P P <br />Pseudoroegneria spicata ssp, inermis P P <br />Pseudoroegneria spicata ssp. spicata ~ P P P <br />TOTAL NATIVE PERENNIAL GRASSES (c} 14 2 18 22 2 10 10 24 P 4 10 4 <br />INTRODUCED PERENNIAL GRASSES (cool) <br />Bromopsis inermis P 2 4 12 (2) 2 2(2) P 2 <br />Dactylis glomerate P 2 P P 8 P P 2 P P <br />Festuca ovine var. duriuscula P P 8 P 4 <br />Phleum pretense P 4 <br />Psathyrostachys juncea 2 P P P P P 2 P <br />Thinopyrum iniermedium 10 P 4 P 6 <br />TOTAL INTRO. PERENNIAL GRASSES (c) P 6 4 P 30 (2) 6 P 16(2) P 2 12 <br />NATIVE SHRUBS <br />Amelanchier alnifolia P P P P P P <br />Chrysothamnus nauseosus P P P <br />Padus virginiana ssp. melanocarpa P <br />Purshia tridentate P P P P P P P P <br />Quercus gambelii ~ P <br />Rosa woodsii P P P P P <br />Seriphidium tridentatum 4 2 P 2 P P P 2 P <br />Symphoricarpos rotundifolius P P P P P P P P <br />TOTAL NATIVE SHRUBS 4 P 2 P 2 P P P P P 2 P <br />Standing dead 6 2 2 2 <br />Litter 38 32 30 28 26 26 26 40 42 28 t0 28 <br />Bare soil - 30 24 26 30 10 12 52 24 10 48 48 18 <br />Rock 4 4 10 2 8 20 12 12 <br />TOTALS 100 100 100 100 '100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 <br />TOTAL VEGETATION COVER 28 40 44 32 58 60(6) 20 34 38(2) 4 30 42 <br />GROUND COYER (Litter+ROCk+Veg+St.Dead) 70 76 74 70 90 88(6) 48 76 90(2) 52 52 82 <br />SPECIES DENSITY (# of species/100 sq.m.) 31 34 33 24 26 21 27 22 23 19 27 34 <br />(AVERAGE=26.8 Std.Dev.= 5.2) <br />'P= Present within 1 m. on either side of the cover transect, but not quantitatively <br />encountered. <br />