DISTRIBUTION AND OCCURRENCE
SPECIES: Tridens muticus | Slim Tridens 



GENERAL DISTRIBUTION : 
Slim tridens occurs through much of the southwestern United States, from
California to the southern Great Plains, eastern Kansas, Oklahoma, and
Texas south to central Mexico.  It is widely distributed in the
Chihuahuan and Sonoran deserts [9,24,31].


ECOSYSTEMS : 
   FRES29  Sagebrush
   FRES30  Desert shrub
   FRES31  Shinnery
   FRES32  Texas savanna
   FRES33  Southwestern shrubsteppe
   FRES35  Pinyon - juniper
   FRES40  Desert grasslands


STATES : 
     AR  AZ  CA  CO  KS  NV  NM  OK  TX  UT
     MEXICO


ADMINISTRATIVE UNITS : 
     AMIS  BIBE  CACA  CORO  DEVA  FOBO
     GRCA  GUMO  JOTR  LAME  LAMR  MOCA
     ORPI  SAGU


BLM PHYSIOGRAPHIC REGIONS : 
    6  Upper Basin and Range
    7  Lower Basin and Range
   11  Southern Rocky Mountains
   12  Colorado Plateau
   13  Rocky Mountain Piedmont
   14  Great Plains


KUCHLER PLANT ASSOCIATIONS : 
   K023  Juniper - pinyon woodland
   K027  Mesquite bosque
   K038  Great Basin sagebrush
   K041  Creosotebush
   K042  Creosotebush - bursage
   K043  Paloverde - cactus shrub
   K044  Creosotebush - tarbush
   K053  Grama - galleta steppe
   K054  Grama - tobosa prairie
   K057  Galleta - three-awn shrubsteppe
   K058  Grama - tobosa shrubsteppe
   K059  Trans-Pecos shrub savanna
   K060  Mesquite savanna
   K061  Mesquite - acacia savanna
   K071  Shinnery
   K084  Cross Timbers
   K085  Mesquite - buffalograss
   K086  Juniper - oak savanna
   K087  Mesquite - oak savanna


SAF COVER TYPES : 
    66  Ashe juniper - redberry (Pinchot) juniper
    67  Mohrs ("shin") oak
    68  Mesquite
   220  Rocky Mountain juniper
   238  Western juniper
   239  Pinyon - juniper
   240  Arizona cypress
   241  Western live oak
   242  Mesquite


SRM (RANGELAND) COVER TYPES : 
NO-ENTRY


HABITAT TYPES AND PLANT COMMUNITIES : 
Common shrub associates not listed as SAF cover types include:
creosotebush (Larrea tridentata), wavyleaf oak (Quercus undulata), gray
oak (Q. grisea), one-seed juniper (Juniperus monosperma), lechuguilla
agave (Agave lechuguilla), smooth sotol (Dasylirion leiophyllum),
Opuntia spp., and catclaw mimosa (Mimosa biuncifera) [3,17,25,28,32].

Other common associates (forbs and grasses) include:  skeleton goldeneye
(Viguiera stenoloba), hairy grama (Bouteloua hirsuta), sideoats grama
(B. curtipendula), threeawn (Aristida spp.), hairy tridens (Tridens
pilosum), and curly leaf muhly (Muhlenbergia setifolia) [3,17,25,28,32].

Related categories for Species: Tridens muticus | Slim Tridens