Dominated by rubber rabbitbrush, usually ca. l m tall, with fairly evenly spaced gray shrubs flowering in late summer or fall. Ecological relations among the various subspecific members of Chrysothamnus viscidiflorus remain to be illucidated.
SITE FACTORS:
A disturbance-maintained community (fire, grazing, soil tilling). Vertisols (self-churning soils) may have been the only "pristine" rabbitbrush sites.
DISTRIBUTION:
Great Basin and western margin of the Mojave Desert, reaching west across the Sierra-Cascade Axis into the drainage's of Kern, Feather, and Pit Rivers.
Source: Holland, 1986
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