LIFE FORMS AND LIFE HABITS 



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jiiilllill Mixed Prairie 



PIfll Desert Plains 



|»{{3 California Prairie ^ 



]^o°\ Palouse Prairie 



|i':i.V;!| Incompletely known grasslands 



t'lVi'l Aspen Parkland (Savannah) 

 /"^•^^ Contacts with other biomes 

 "*'•'-' Separates different associations 

 Cl^ Mountain masses | | Non- grasslands 



Fig. 54. — Map of the grassland climax and its associations. The areas in which 



the climaxes occur outside of low mountains are indicated. TP — true prairie; 



CP — coastal prairie; MP — mixed prairie; PP — Palouse prairie; BP — California 



prairie; DP — desert plains. 



