Definition: The U. S. Western Mountains, Valleys and Coast. One of the 10 regional U.S. Army Corps of Engineers wetland delineation regions for the U.S. and its territories used by the National Wetland Plant List.
Definition: The U.S. Arid West. One of the 10 regional U.S. Army Corps of Engineers wetland delineation regions for the U.S. and its territories used by the National Wetland Plant List.
Definition: A depression caused by erosion by water or ice. Low-lying land bordered by higher ground; especially elongate, relatively large gently sloping depressions of the Earth's surface, commonly situated between two mountains or between ranges of hills or mountains, and often containing a stream with an outlet.
Definition: A habitat of rolling or flat terrain where grasses predominate. Typically, what is called a meadow has more biodiversity than a grassland as the former contains not only grasses but a significant variety of annual, biennial and perennial plants.
Definition: Of plant duration, a plant whose life span extends over more than two growing seasons, c.f. annual, biennial, ephemeral, of flowering with respect to architecture, hapaxanthic, monocarpic, pleonanthic