DISTRIBUTION AND OCCURRENCE
SPECIES: Agave lechuguilla | Lechuguilla 



GENERAL DISTRIBUTION : 
Lechuguilla is essentially restricted to and is considered an indicator
species of the Chihuahuan Desert [15].  It occurs from southeastern New
Mexico and western Texas southward to the Mexican states of Mexico and
Hidalgo [10,15].


ECOSYSTEMS : 
   FRES30  Desert shrub
   FRES34  Chaparral - mountain shrub
   FRES35  Pinyon - juniper
   FRES40  Desert grasslands


STATES : 
     NM  TX  MEXICO


ADMINISTRATIVE UNITS : 
     AMIS  BIBE  CACA  GUMO


BLM PHYSIOGRAPHIC REGIONS : 
    7  Lower Basin and Range
   13  Rocky Mountain Piedmont


KUCHLER PLANT ASSOCIATIONS : 
   K023  Juniper - pinyon woodland
   K031  Oak - juniper woodland
   K044  Creosotebush - tarbush
   K054  Grama - tobosa prairie
   K058  Grama - tobosa shrubsteppe
   K059  Trans-Pecos shrub savanna


SAF COVER TYPES : 
   239  Pinyon -juniper
   241  Western live oak


SRM (RANGELAND) COVER TYPES : 
NO-ENTRY


HABITAT TYPES AND PLANT COMMUNITIES : 
Lechuguilla is the characteristic leaf succulent of numerous climax
plant communities in the Chihuahuan Desert [15].  The following
publication lists lechuguilla as a dominant species in some communities:

Fire ecology study of the Chisos Mountains, Big Bend National Park,
  Texas: Phase I. [8]

Related categories for Species: Agave lechuguilla | Lechuguilla