The mountains of the Great Basin provided a great source of pine nuts from pinyon pines.
Some seeds, for example, the seeds of pinyon pines, are used in prepared foods and baking.
The only trees were scrubby, corkscrewed pinyon pines.
After the boundary sign, the pinyon pines disappear and Great Basin sagebrush becomes more dominant.
During migrations to lower altitudes, it also extensively uses the seeds of pinyon pines.
It shows similarities to Rzedowski's Pinyon and some other pinyon pines.
It is particularly associated with pinyon pines, junipers, and oaks.
Through the woods below chairlifts, cheers rose regularly as snowboarders and skiers laid fresh tracks among the fat pinyon pines.
The habitat is grassland with some junipers and pinyon pines.
It grows in the sandy-loamy to granitic soils associated with pinyon pines and canyon live oaks.