shadscale

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Noun

shadscale (countable and uncountable, plural shadscales)

  1. 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, →DOI:
      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).