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Rolling Sand Plains
Ecoregion
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TX
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OK
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CO
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KS
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The grass-stabilized sand plains, sand dunes and sand sheets of the Rolling Sand Plains ecoregion are a divergence from the mostly loess-covered plains of adjacent ecoregions. Sandy soils, formed from eolian deposits, supported a sandsage prairie natural vegetation type, different from the shortgrass and midgrass prairie of other neighboring level IV ecoregions in the High Plains (25). Sand sagebrush, rabbitbrush, sand bluestem, prairie sandreed, and Indian ricegrass were typical plants. Land use is primarily rangeland, although a few scattered areas have been developed for irrigated cropland using deep wells.
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Plants
Sunflower
Helianthus annuus (species),
“Sunflowers”, “Common Sunflower”
11
Observations
JAN - DEC
Rusty Lupine
Lupinus pusillus (species)
5
Observations
JAN - DEC
Little Hogweed
Portulaca oleracea (species),
“Common Purslane”, “Moss Rose”, “Pig Weed”, “Pusley”, “Red Root”, “Verdolaga”
4
Observations
JAN - DEC
Fall Panicgrass
Panicum dichotomiflorum (species),
“Autumn Millet”
3
Observations
JAN - DEC
Oenothera suffrutescens
SPECIES
3
Observations
JAN - DEC
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Animals
Prairie Rattlesnake
Crotalus viridis (species)
24
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”
6
Observations
JAN - DEC
Glossy Snake
Arizona elegans (species)
4
Observations
JAN - DEC
Eastern Hognose Snake
Heterodon platirhinos (species),
“Eastern Hog-Nosed Snake”
4
Observations
JAN - DEC
Plains Black-Headed Snake
Tantilla nigriceps (species),
“Plains Blackhead Snake”
3
Observations
JAN - DEC
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Birds
Western Meadowlark
Sturnella neglecta (species)
10,546
Observations
JAN - DEC
Red-Winged Blackbird
Agelaius phoeniceus (species)
8,159
Observations
JAN - DEC
Mourning Dove
Zenaida macroura (species),
“American Mourning Dove”, “Rain Dove”, “Carolina Pigeon”, “Carolina Turtledove”, “Zenaidura Caroliensis”, “Zenaidura Macroura Caroliensis”
7,727
Observations
JAN - DEC
Killdeer
Charadrius vociferus (species),
“Kildeer”
7,518
Observations
JAN - DEC
Mallard
Anas platyrhynchos (species),
“Wild Duck”, “Mallard Duck”, “Common Mallard”, “Northern Mallard”
6,164
Observations
JAN - DEC
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Insects
Cheumatopsyche lasia
SPECIES
4
Observations
JAN - DEC
Brachystola magna
SPECIES ·
“Plains Lubber Grasshopper”
4
Observations
JAN - DEC
Schinia reniformis
SPECIES
4
Observations
JAN - DEC
Hadrotettix trifasciatus
SPECIES ·
“Three-Banded Grasshopper”
3
Observations
JAN - DEC
Hesperotettix viridis
SPECIES
3
Observations
JAN - DEC
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Taxonomy
Region
49
Ecoregion
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Ecoregion
Rolling Sand Plains
Rolling Sand Plains
Rolling Sand Plains
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