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Table 1. Cover Data - 2004 Reclamation Area - Seneca IIW Mine, SCC, Rout Co., CO - 2008 Page 4 of 4 <br />Percent Foliar Cover* <br />PLANT SPECIES <br />---Sample Number--- <br />6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 <br />• <br />• <br />INTRODUCED PERENNIAL FORBS <br />Astragalus cicer P P P P P P P <br />Breea arvensis P P 5 1 P P 1 P <br />Lotus tenuis <br />Medicago sativa 9 14(1) 2 2 8 11 2 6 4(1) 3 7 1 4 <br />Rumex crispus P <br />Taraxacum officinale 1 2 <br />TOTAL INTRO. PERENNIAL FORBS 9 14(l) 2 2 8 11 P 8 3 6 4(l) 3 7 2 4 <br />NATIVE PERENNIAL GRASSES (cool) - <br />Achnatherum lettermanii 1 <br />Carex geyeri P <br />Carex xerantica <br />Ceratochloa polyantha 3(1) 1 1 P P P P <br />Critesion jubatum P P P P 1 3 P P 5 P <br />Elymus lanceolatus fm. dasystachya P 3(1) 2 10 9 1 1 1 3 2 8 4 <br />Elymus trachycaulus 4(2) 1(1) 1 1 1 4 2 2 6 4 2 3 2 <br />Festuca brachyphylla ssp. coloradensis P P 1 8 P 1 P P <br />Festuca minutiflora 1 1 <br />Festuca saximontana P P P 3(1) 1 P 2 P <br />Leymus cinereus P 1 P P P P P P <br />Nassella viridula P P <br />Pascopyrumsmithii 4 7 7 3 3 3 18 11 1 4 5 2(1) 1 <br />Poa agassizensis 2 P 1 3 P <br />Poa ampla P 2 P 1 1 1 P 5 P <br />Poa compressa P 1 P P 1 P 1 <br />Pseudoroegneria spicata ssp. inermis 1 2 1 <br />Pseudoroe neria spicata ssp. spicata 3 1 3 1 3 1 <br />TOTAL NATIVE PERENNIAL GRASSES c 13(3) 17(2) 13 14 13 17(1 27 19 10 19 15 6(1) 8 17 7 <br />INTRODUCED PERENNIAL GRASSES (cool) <br />Agropyron desertorum P <br />Agrostis exarata 1 <br />Alopecurus pratensis 6 <br />Bromopsis inermis 1 1 1 1 P <br />Dactylisglomerata P P 1 1 1 1 P P P P 1(1) 1 <br />Phleum pratense 2 P 2 2 P <br />Thinop rum intermedium 11 1 P P P 1 <br />TOTAL INTRO. PERENNIAL GRASSES c P P 14 2 -- 2 2 3 3 P 7 P 1(1 1 1 <br />NATIVE SHRUBS <br />Chrysothamnus nauseosus P P <br />Padus virginiana ssp. melanocarpa P <br />Seriphidium tridentatum 2 P P <br />S mphoricarpos rotundifolius P P <br />TOTAL NATIVE SHRUBS 2 P -- -- - --- --- P --- P --- P -- - <br />BRYOPHYTES <br />Moss 1 1 <br />TOTAL BRYOPHYTES -- - - - - - 1 -- - - 1 --- --- <br />Standing dead 1 1 1 1 <br />Litter 36 30 34 43 22 50 35 46 32 25 22 15 28 32 29 <br />Bare soil 30 15 8 19 45 6 27 8 36 29 32 56 38 27 44 <br />Rock 2 3 1 5 2 4 6 1 <br />TOTALS 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 <br />TOTAL VEGETATION COVER 32(3) 51(5) 58 37 28 44(l) 37 46 32(l) 45 44(2) 25(2) 28(l) 40(l) 26 <br />GROUND COVER (Litter+ Rock+Veg+St. Dead) 70(3) 85(5) 92 81 55 94(1) 73 92 64(1) 71 68(2) 44(2) 62(1) 73(1) 56 <br />SPECIES DENSITY (# of species/100 sq.m.) 37 37 24 22 17 19 25 28 29 28 35 33 32 21 22 <br />(AVERAGE= 28.2 Std.Dev.= 6.7 <br />*P=Present within 1 m. on either side of the cover transact but not quantitatively encountered. <br />()=Data in parentheses represent other hits that are used in conjunction with first hits for cover all statistics.