xerophytic

How To Use xerophytic In A Sentence

• Xerophytic and in some places halophytic plant communities of the desert and semi-desert are dominant, with azonal vegetation in the larger river-valleys and around the lakes. Great Lakes Basin desert steppe
• A collection of cacti xerophytic plants - over 800 specimens - is exhibited in the nearby cactus house.
• Below the Douglas-fir belt, ponderosa pine is dominant to the west of the continental divide, constituting a xerophytic forest. Middle Rocky Mountain Steppe - Coniferous Forest - Alpine Meadow Province (Bailey)
• It is true that sandy uplands have forests of loblolly and slash pine, and that baldcypress is a dominant tree in swamps; but such vegetation represents either xerophytic and hydrophytic forms in excessively dry or wet habitats, or second-growth forest following fire and deforestation. Outer Coastal Plain Mixed Forest Province (Bailey)
• Exodermis with Casparian bands was found in roots of hydrophytic, mesophytic and xerophytic species and in members of primitive as well as advanced families.
• xerophytic adaptations
• It indicated that the spatial distribution for the rodent damage of the xerophytic peanut pods belongs to the aggregated distribution.
• Mean annual temperature is 20 • 8°C with a seasonal variation of 16 • 2°C, and a mean daily range of 20°C. Vegetation consists of xerophytic scrub or Chihuahuan Desert scrub.
• The region is characterized by dry-desert vegetation, a class of xerophytic plants that are widely dispersed and provide negligible ground cover. Tropical-Subtropical Desert Division (Bailey)
• On the plains of northwestern Texas and eastern New Mexico, xerophytic grasses (blue grama and buffalo grass) are the characteristic vegetation. Southwest Plateau and Plains Dry Steppe and Shrub Province (Bailey)