Census of flowering annuals in the open and associated with Larrea tridentata, Mojave Desert, April 2019

Larrea tridentata is a well known facilitator of annuals in arid ecosystems. We surveyed the annual flowering community associated with 100 Larrea tridentata and paired open areas in the Mojave Desert three times over the course of the flowering season of 2019. Only annual species that were flowering in the area were identified. Plant density, species richness and flowering density was recorded for each shrub. A total of 15 annual species across 6 families and 14 genera were recorded.This dataset has three files:1. flowering_censuses_2019 contains the annual community data (e.g. density, richness, and floral density)2. ShrubInfo contains the characteristics of each shrub (e.g. size and location)3. code2.R contains code related to the presentation and analysis of the data.