San Luis State Park Plants

Ecologically, park uplands are dominated by saline bottom land shrublands, cold desert shrublands and salt meadows. Common plant species for the area include greasewood, rubber and Greene rabbitbrush, four-wing saltbush, yucca, western wheatgrass, alkali cordgrass, saltgrass, Indian ricegrass, needle-and-thread grass, sandhills muhly and blue grama. Diverse wetland and aquatic plant communities have become established around and in the playa including habitat for the rare slender spider-flower.