Trees
Utah juniper
The shaggy-barked evergreen of pinyon-juniper country, sometimes called Utah cedar.
Two-needle pinyon
The small pine of pinyon-juniper woodland, with needles in pairs.
Two-needle pinyon is a small pine with scaly bark and needles in bundles of two, about half an inch to 2 inches long. At Arches it grows in desert shrub and pinyon-juniper communities, alongside Utah juniper.
Its species name, edulis, means "edible" and refers to its nutritious seeds, which grow in small, resinous cones.
Seeing it
Counting needles per bundle is the easiest first clue to which pine you're looking at.
Places the sources name
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Grasses
Indian ricegrass
Utah's state grass, a drought-tolerant bunchgrass found on most of the state's rangeland.