NATIONAL PARK SERVICE
Research Report GRTE-N-1
The Elk of Grand Teton and Southern Yellowstone National Parks
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APPENDIX III
Average percent canopy coverage and percent frequency of plant taxa on slope areas of the bunchgrass-shrub type (*, less than 1 percent).


South
West1SE1
III IIIIV VVI VII
No. Plots:34 3434 3434 2525

Bluebunch wheatgrass18/9440/9415/6716/8817/5029/9230/68
Bluegrass6/5615/885/441/121/618/8814/32
Needle-and-thread1/181/9



6/28
Ricegrass6/47*9/473/354/18

Junegrass
2/38*

1/89/32
Slender wheatgrass

6/24


6/32
Brome*

2/3


Idaho fescue





13/32
Sedge
2/15




Grass Totals31603522224882

Astragalus4/38
2/211/3
10/801/8
Bastard toadflax1/15*
*2/29

Fleabane*7/53
1/9


Aster
3/354/381/95/38

Elk Thistle
2/3




Selaginella
3/9




Hackelia


2/15


Lupine


3/6

7/32
Balsamroot


2/62/9

Buckwheat


1/91/12

Flax



5/15

Forb Totals51561115108

Phlox6/745/656/50
1/66/84
Leptodactylon*2/32
*


Douglas rabbitbrush1/153/292/32
1/323/92
Rubber rabbitbrush2/94/126/44
1/3

Fringed sagewort*1/153/15



Big sagebrush


3/9

22/64
Serviceberry


1/65/35
7542
Horsebrush



2/9

Bitterbrush



*
17/36
Snowberry





7/36
Shrub Totals915174102946

1 From Martinka (1965).

2 Plants per acre.



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