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

GENERAL DISTRIBUTION:

Big galleta's range extends from southern Utah, Colorado, and Nevada south through California and Arizona and into northern Mexico [20,21,27,53,54].

ECOSYSTEMS:

FRES30 Desert shrub
FRES35 Pinyon-juniper
FRES40 Desert grasslands

STATES:

BLM PHYSIOGRAPHIC REGIONS:

6 Upper Basin and Range
7 Lower Basin and Range
11 Southern Rocky Mountains
12 Colorado Plateau

KUCHLER PLANT ASSOCIATIONS:

K023 Juniper-pinyon woodland
K039 Blackbrush
K040 Saltbush-greasewood
K041 Creosotebush
K042 Creosotebush-bursage
K043 Paloverde-cactus shrub
K053 Grama-galleta steppe

SAF COVER TYPES:

239 Pinyon-juniper

SRM (RANGELAND) COVER TYPES:

211 Creosotebush scrub
212 Blackbush
504 Juniper-pinyon pine woodland
506 Creosotebush-bursage
507 Palo verde-cactus

HABITAT TYPES AND PLANT COMMUNITIES:

Big galleta is widely distributed throughout Mohave and Sonoran desertscrub communities [31,36,50,51]. Within these communities, big galleta is often associated with creosotebush (Larrea tridentata), white bursage (Ambrosia dumosa), blackbrush (Coleogyne ramosissima), Joshua tree (Yucca brevifolia), banana yucca (Y. baccata), Mohave yucca (Y. schidigera), range ratany (Krameria parvifolia), winterfat (Krascheninnikovia lanata), brittle bush (Encelia farinosa), ephedra (Ephedra spp.), yellow paloverde (Cercidium microphyllum), ocotillo (Fouquieria splendens), cholla (Opuntia spp.), bladdersage (Salazaria mexicana), wolfberry (Lycium spp.), Mohave desertrue (Thamnosma montana), globemallow (Sphaeralcea spp.), and grama (Bouteloua spp.) [2,9,31,50,51].

Classifications describing plant communities in which big galleta is a dominant or codominant species follow:

Vegetation types of Utah [2]
A vegetation classification system applied to southern California [38]
Mohave desertscrub [50]
Sonoran desertscrub [51]

Related categories for SPECIES: Pleuraphis rigida | Big Galleta

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