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2005 FRUITA MINE VEGETATION COVER SUMMARY <br />Species /Category Percent Cover Percent Relative Cover <br />(Species Composition) <br />Perennial Grasses <br />Indian ricegrass (Oryzopsis hymenoides) 0.8 1.8 <br />Salina wildrye (Elymus saline) 0.13 0.3 <br />Western wheetgress (Agropyron smithii) 0.47 1.1 <br />Subtotal 1.4 3.2 <br />Perennial Shrubs and Subshrubs <br />Rubber rabbitbrush (Chrysothamnus nauseosus) <br />4.9 <br />11.1 <br />Four -wing saltbush (Atriplex canescens) <br />6.7 <br />15.2 <br />Shadscale (Atriplex confertifolia) <br />2.1 <br />4.7 <br />Broom snakeweed (Xanthocephalum sarothrae) <br />0.53 <br />1.2 <br />Subtotal <br />14.1 <br />32.2 <br />Annual Grasses <br />0.73 <br />1.7 <br />Downy Brome (Anisantha tectorum) <br />19.9 <br />45.1 <br />Little barley (Hordeum pusillum) <br />3.1 <br />7.0 <br />Subtotal <br />22.9 <br />52.1 <br />Annual Forbs <br />Tumble mustard (Sisymbrium altissimum) <br />2.3 <br />5.2 <br />Blue mustard (Chorispora tenella) <br />0.13 <br />0.3 <br />Field pennycress (Thlaspi arvense) <br />0.4 <br />0.9 <br />Storksbill (Erodium cicutarium) <br />1.3 <br />2.9 <br />Flixweed (Descurainia sophia) <br />0.67 <br />1.5 <br />Halogeton ( Halogeton glomeratus) <br />0.73 <br />1.7 <br />Subtotal 5.5 12.5 <br />Total Vegetation Cover 43.9 <br />Litter 22.3 <br />Rock 10.5 <br />Total Ground Cover 76.6 <br />Bare Ground 23.4 <br />