Table 1. Mean ground cover and canopy cover of common vascular plant species 

 in Arabis fecunda monitoring transects at three study sites. 



Charleys Gulch 

 East West 



Rock 

 Soil 

 Basal vegetation 



Agropyron spicatum 

 Aristida longiseta 

 Carex filifolia 

 Carex rossii 

 Oryzopsis hymenoides 

 Poa secunda 

 Stipa comata 



5 

 77 

 19 



2 

 59 

 40 



<1 

 3 1 



Artemisia frigida 

 Centaurea maculosa 

 Chrysopsis villosa 

 Haplopappus acaulis 

 Oxytropis besseyi 

 Phlox muscoides 

 Physaria geyeri 

 Sedum lanceolatum 

 Senecio canus 



30 

 5 <1 



10 



19 



<1 



8 



13 



2 



11 



<1 



20 



