Next, she collected the fibers and twisted them into 66 ropelike test strands of palm yucca, soapweed yucca, and a combination of palm and soapweed yucca.
She chose to test palm yucca, soapweed yucca, and strands made from a combination of fibers from both of these plants.
Average Length of Test Strands (centimeters) DATE PALM SOAPWEED COMBINATION 2/7/09 8 8 8 2/11/09 8 8 8 2/15/09 8.3 8.5 8 2/19/09 8.83 8.83 8.67 2/23/09 9.17 9.17 9 2/27/09 9.5 9.67 9.5 3/3/09 9.83 9.83 9.83 3/7/09 10 10 10 Line Graph
The shortgrass region of the western Great Plains is a semiarid environment of sparse grasslands dominated by shortgrasses (Bouteloua gracilis and Buchloe dactyloides) on loamy soils, and a mixture of sagebrush (Artemisia filifolia),
soapweed (Yucca glauca), midheight grasses (e.g., Sporobolus cryptandrus), and shortgrasses on sandy soils (Lauenroth et al., 1999).
At Fort Lewis B, 500 m from Fort Lewis A, overstory is essentially all Gambel's oak; understory is composed of blue and black grama or there is no overstory, with the microcommunity composed primarily of blue and black grama, small soapweed (Yucca glauca), tree cholla (Opuntia imbricata), and pasture sagebrush (Artemesia frigida).
At Molina A, we found principally Rocky Mountain juniper (Juniperus scopulorum), pinyon pine, small soapweed, and pasture sagebrush.
Other common shrubs and subshrubs at the study site in New Mexico included honey mesquite (Prosopis glandulosa), tree cholla (Cylindropuntia imbricata), broom snakeweed (Gutierrezia sarothrae), and
soapweed yucca (Yucca glauca).
As a result of suppression of fires and overgrazing, it now is dominated by woody plants such as honey mesquites (Prosopis glandulosa) and chollas (Cylindropuntia), forbs such as prickly pears (Opuntia phaeacantha), common broomweeds (Xanthocephalum dracunculoides), and small
soapweed yuccas (Yucca glauca), but also includes grasses such as blue grama (Bouteloua gracilis), sideoats grama (B.
Just as the eastern sky turned orange, I crept slowly along a ridge peppered with sagebrush and
soapweed, a place where I'd taken a nice buck 2 years earlier.
