2011-03-30_REPORT - C1980005 (2)

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Table 1. Cover Data - Phase II Bond Release Block, Peabody Sage Creek Mine (PSCM), SCCC, Routt Co., CO - 2010 11 of 12 • PLANT SPECIES Percent Foliar Cover* - -- Sample Number -- 25 26 27 28 29 30 is • INTRODUCED PERENNIAL FORBS Astragalus cicer 2 1 P Breea arvensis P P Medicago sativa 4 19 24 15 P 9 Onobrychis viciaefolia Rumex crispus P Taraxacum officinale P P P P TOTAL INTRO. PERENNIAL FORBS 4 21 25 15 P 9 NATIVE PERENNIAL GRASSES (cool) Achnatherum hymenoides Bromelica bulbosa Ceratochloa polyantha Critesion jubatum P Elymus lanceolatus fm. albicans 1 Elymus lanceolatus fm. dasystachya 4 P 1 6 6 P Elymus trachycaulus Festuca brachyphylla ssp. coloradensis P Festuca saximontana P 1 Leymus cinereus 2 P 7 1 P P Nassella viridula 1 P Pascopyrum smithii 3 P 3 1 Poa ampla P P Poa compressa 1 P P P p Poa pratensis ssp. agassizensis Poa secunda Pseudoroegneria spicata ssp. inermis Pseudoroegneria spicata ssp. spicata TOTAL NATIVE PERENNIAL GRASSES (c) 10 P 8 11 9 P INTRODUCED PERENNIAL GRASSES (cool) - Agropyron desertorum P Bromopsis inermis P P P 1 P Bromopsis riparius Dactylis glomerata 2 1 5 1 1 5 Festuca ovina var. duriuscula P 1 P Phleum pratense Thinopyrum intermedium 1 11 4 25 TOTAL INTRO. PERENNIAL GRASSES (c) 3 12 9 1 3 30 NATIVE SHRUBS Amelanchier alnifolia Chrysothamnus nauseosus Padus virginiana ssp. melanocarpa 1 Purshia tridentata P Quercus gambelii Rosa woodsii Seriphidium tridentatum 1 P 7(1) Symphoricarpos rotundifolius 1 P P TOTAL NATIVE SHRUBS 1 1 - -- - -- P 8(1) BRYOPHYTES Moss TOTAL BRYOPHYTES *P= Present within 1 m. of either side of the cover transect, but not quantitatively encountered. O =Data in parenthesis represent other hits that are used in conjunction with first hits for cover all statistics.