shadscale
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[edit]Noun
[edit]shadscale (countable and uncountable, plural shadscales)
- An evergreen shrub, Atriplex confertifolia.
- 2015 October 15, “Evaluation of Scat Deposition Transects versus Radio Telemetry for Developing a Species Distribution Model for a Rare Desert Carnivore, the Kit Fox”, in PLOS ONE[1], :
- At areas of slightly higher elevations, soils were less salty and supported a cold desert chenopod shrub community consisting predominately of shadscale (Atriplex confertifolia) and gray molly (Kochia americana).