Salt Desert Shrub Zone

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Salt Desert Shrub Zone

The Salt Desert Shrub Zone is found throughout the Great Basin in the low elevation valley bottoms.

Plants such as four- winged saltbrush, shadscale, bassia, beeplant, and budsage are found in this zone

It receives 3.5-7 inches of precipitation per year.

Plants of the Southern
Desert Shrub Zone

Plants of the Salt
Desert Shrub Zone

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