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Utah
Utah, United States of America: 8 ecoregions. Each with its climate now and toward 2050, and its conservation tier.
Landscape and climate
Eight ecoregions reach Utah and five are desert and xeric shrubland systems. They are the Colorado Plateau shrublands in the southeast, the Great Basin shrub steppe in the west, the Mojave desert in the far southwest corner, and the Snake-Columbia shrub steppe and Wyoming Basin shrub steppe to the north. Three are conifer forests, the Wasatch and Uinta montane forests, the Great Basin montane forests and the Colorado Rockies forests. None sits in the Nature Imperiled tier. Utah is a dry state with real mountains in it, and the elevation gain from the valley floors into the Wasatch is steep enough to change the planting entirely over a short distance. Water is the constraint nearly everywhere below the canyons.
Native plants of Utah
Species in the catalog recorded as native to Utah, each with its climate-fit grade and planting guidance.
American plumAmerican red raspberryBig bluestemBlack walnutBlack-eyed SusanBlue elderberryBlue gramaBoxelderButterfly weedCalifornia fuchsiaCalifornia poppyCanada goldenrodCardinal flowerChokecherryColorado blue spruceCommon camasCommon hackberryCommon hopsCommon juniperCommon sunflowerCommon yarrowCutleaf coneflowerDouglas firEastern cottonwoodFirecracker penstemonFremont cottonwoodGolden currantHoney locustIdaho fescueIndian grassLady fernLittle bluestemLodgepole pineNew England asterPonderosa pinePrairie smokeQuaking aspenRed-osier dogwoodRocky Mountain juniperSide-oats gramaSmooth blue asterSpotted Joe-Pye weedSubalpine firSunchokeSwamp milkweedSwitchgrassWestern redbudWild bergamotWild strawberry
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