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Creosote-Bursage Flats (Lower Sonoran Life Zone)
Vegetation Around Las Vegas
Creosote-Bursage Flats (Lower Sonoran Life Zone)
Creosote-Bursage Flats
Little except creosote (green) and bursage (white); winter

Creosote-Bursage Flats (Lower Sonoran Life Zone, BLM Southern Desert Scrub)

Non-technical Description: A vast expanse of seemingly uniform-height shrubs on desert flats.

Technical Description: The Creosote-Bursage Flats association occurs throughout the Las Vegas area on broad flats and gently-sloping hillsides primarily at elevations below 4,000 feet where annual precipitation is 6 inches or less and unreliable. Temperature extremes often exceed 110ºF during summer and 25ºF during winter.

Widely spaced Creosote Bush and White Bursage are dominant in this association, often occurring alone or with Mojave Yucca at slightly higher elevations. Washes often support Catclaw Acacia (Acacia greggii). Annual forbs (spring wildflowers) are abundant after wet winters, but generally absent otherwise. The non-native Red Brome Grass can be abundant.

Creosote-Bursage Flats
Few plant species besides creosote (green) and bursage (white)
Creosote-Bursage Flats
Few plant species besides creosote (green) and bursage (white)
Creosote-Bursage Flats
Little except creosote (green) and bursage (white); winter
Creosote-Bursage Flats
Little except creosote (green) and bursage (white); winter
Creosote-Bursage Flats Creosote-Bursage Flats
Creosote-Bursage Flats
Sparse creosote flats in Lake Mead NRA
Creosote-Bursage Flats
Sparse creosote flats in Death Valley National Park
Creosote-Bursage Flats
Sparse Creosote-Bursage flats in Lake Mead NRA
Creosote-Bursage
Creosote Bush (green) and White Bursage (white) during winter
Creosote Bush (Larrea tridentata)
Some places have little beside creosote bush and spring annuals
Creosote Bush (Larrea tridentata)
Some places have little beside creosote bush and spring annuals
Creosote-Bursage Flats
Creosote-Bursage flats on the edge of the Las Vegas Valley
Creosote-Bursage Flats (Lower Sonoran Life Zone)
Abandoned hollow-pipe mining claim marker on Creosote-Bursage flats

All distances, elevations, and other facts are approximate.
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