Salt Desert Shrub Zone

  • The Salt Desert Shrub Zone is found throughout the Great Basin in the low elevation valley bottoms.
  • Plants such as four- winged saltbrush, shadscale, bassia, beeplant, and budsage are found in this zone
  • It receives 3.5-7 inches of precipitation per year.



Plants of the Southern
Desert Shrub Zone


Plants of the Salt
Desert Shrub Zone