• GENERAL DISTRIBUTION
• ECOSYSTEMS
• STATES
• BLM PHYSIOGRAPHIC REGIONS
• KUCHLER PLANT ASSOCIATIONS
• SAF COVER TYPES
• SRM (RANGELAND) COVER TYPES
• HABITAT TYPES AND PLANT COMMUNITIES

GENERAL DISTRIBUTION:

Bush muhly occurs from the southern part of the Great Basin and Intermountain region south to California, Texas and Mexico [44].

ECOSYSTEMS:

FRES30  Desert shrub
FRES34  Chaparral-mountain shrub
FRES40  Desert grassland

STATES:

AZ  CA  CO  NV  NM  OK  TX  UT
  
MEXICO

BLM PHYSIOGRAPHIC REGIONS:

 3  Southern Pacific Border
 5  Columbia Plateau
 6  Upper Basin and Range
 7  Lower Basin and Range
10  Wyoming Basin
11  Southern Rocky Mountains
12  Colorado Plateau

KUCHLER PLANT ASSOCIATIONS:

KO27  Mesquite bosques
K039  Blackbrush
K040  Saltbush-greasewood
K041  Creosotebush
KO42  Creosotebush-bursage
KO43  Palverde-cactus shrub
K057  Galleta-three-awn shrubsteppe

SAF COVER TYPES:

 68  Mesquite
242  Mesquite

SRM (RANGELAND) COVER TYPES:

211  Creosotebush scrub
212  Blackbrush
501  Saltbush-greasewood
503  Arizona chaparral
506  Creosotebush-bursage
507  Palo verde-cactus
508  Creosotebush-tarbush

HABITAT TYPES AND PLANT COMMUNITIES:

Bush muhly occurs in desert grasslands, desert shrub, within and above interior chaparral, and as an understory component of the Madrean evergreen woodland in central Arizona. It occurs mainly along drainages in the Great Basin [3].

Bush muhly is commonly found in association with velvet mesquite (Prosopis velutina), creosotebush (Larrea tridentata) and Joshua tree (Yucca brevifolia). Common grass associates of bush muhly include bristlegrass (Seraria leucopila), plains bristlegrass (S. macrostachya), plains lovegrass (Eragrostis intermedia), cane beardgrass (Bothriochloa barbinodis), green sprangletop (Leptochloa dubia), Arizona cottontop (Digitaria californica), and Lehmann lovegrass (Eragrostis lehmanniana) [4].

Related categories for SPECIES: Muhlenbergia porteri | Bush Muhly