Most of the soil pH in Colorado’s Front Range are alkaline, so it is possible that this increase in pH will have little or no effect on plants that are already suited or adapted to the native soils of our area. But for plants that don’t do well in alkaline soils, will this more ...
tridentata and other evergreen desert shrubs and cacti with E. fari- nosa, a short-lived (Goldberg and Turner 1986) and shallow rooted (Nobel and Jordan 1983), drought to semi-drought deciduous shrub (Cunningham and Strain 1969), may alter the fire regime. Encelia farinosa plants are rela...