Plants of the Great Basin

This list covers the mountain ranges roughly in the Great Basin, but not the desert in between -- see the desert list for that. Some mountain ranges included here are not actually in the Great Basin, like the Henrys, which strictly speaking is on the Colorado Plateau. But the vegetation is more similar to the Great Basin mountains than the Rocky Mountains that I included it here instead.

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Types

T tree
S shrub
V vine
H herb
F fern
U fungus
B Bird
-x   exotic
Locations

W White Mountains, CA
T Toiyabe Range, NV
S Snake Range, NV
F Fish Lake Forest, UT
H Henry Mountains, UT
Habitats

D desert, up to 7000
M montane, to 9000
A subalpine, to 11000
T tundra and above
-s   slopes, flats
-v   damp valleys
-r   riparian
-b   meadow, bog
-c   rock crevices