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Modoc Lava Flows and Buttes
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The Modoc Lava Flows and Buttes ecoregion is a volcanic plateau surrounding the Medicine Lake Highlands of the Cascades ecoregion (4). It is lower and drier than those highlands, with more juniper and pine. Soil temperature regimes are mesic and soil moisture regimes are aridic and xeric. Vegetation includes western juniper, big sagebrush, and native perennial grassland. Water drains down through joints in the basalt rock to the groundwater reservoir, limiting overland flow of water and development of stream channels on the plateau.
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Plants
Taeniatherum caput-medusae
SPECIES ·
“Medusahead”
99
Observations
JAN - DEC
Wax Currant
Ribes cereum (species)
15
Observations
JAN - DEC
Lupinus sellulus
SPECIES ·
“Donner Lake Lupine”
14
Observations
JAN - DEC
Mock Strawberry
Potentilla indica (species),
“Yellow-Flowered Strawberry”, “Indian Strawberry”, “False Strawberry”
11
Observations
JAN - DEC
Western Juniper
Juniperus occidentalis (species),
“Western-Cedar”, “Sierra Juniper”, “Pencil Wood”
7
Observations
JAN - DEC
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Animals
Little Brown Bat
Myotis lucifugus (species),
“Little Brown Myotis”
7
Observations
JAN - DEC
Mule Deer
Odocoileus hemionus (species),
“Black-Tailed Deer”, “Cedros Island Black-Tailed Deer”, “Cedros Island Mule Deer”
3
Observations
JAN - DEC
Western Fence Lizard
Sceloporus occidentalis (species),
“Blue-Belly”
2
Observations
JAN - DEC
California Ground Squirrel
Otospermophilus beecheyi (species)
2
Observations
JAN - DEC
Pacific Gopher Snake
Pituophis catenifer (species),
“Henry Snake”, “Coast Gopher Snake”, “Bull Snake”, “Churchill's Bull Snake”, “Oregon Bull Snake”, “Pacific Pine Snake”, “Western Bull Snake”, “Western Gopher Snake”, “Sonoran Gopher Snake”, “Western Pine Snake”, “Blow Snake”, “Yellow Gopher Snake”, “Gophersnake”
1
Observation
JAN - DEC
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Birds
Common Raven
Corvus corax (species),
“Raven”, “Northern Raven”
739
Observations
JAN - DEC
American Robin
Turdus migratorius (species)
719
Observations
JAN - DEC
Western Meadowlark
Sturnella neglecta (species)
655
Observations
JAN - DEC
Red-Tailed Hawk
Buteo jamaicensis (species),
“Chickenhawk”
618
Observations
JAN - DEC
California Scrub Jay
Aphelocoma californica (species),
“Western Scrub-Jay”
586
Observations
JAN - DEC
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Insects
Occidryas chalcedona
SPECIES
3
Observations
JAN - DEC
Hippodamia convergens
SPECIES ·
“Convergent Lady Beetle”
3
Observations
JAN - DEC
Pontia beckerii
SPECIES
2
Observations
JAN - DEC
Chlosyne palla
SPECIES ·
“Northern Checkerspot”
2
Observations
JAN - DEC
Cercyonis oetus
SPECIES ·
“Small Wood Nymph”
2
Observations
JAN - DEC
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Region
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Ecoregion
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Ecoregion
Modoc Lava Flows and Buttes
Modoc Lava Flows and Buttes
Modoc Lava Flows and Buttes
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