DISTRIBUTION AND OCCURRENCE
SPECIES: Atriplex lentiformis | Big Saltbrush 



GENERAL DISTRIBUTION : 
Big saltbrush occurs along the coast of California from San Francisco
southward into central Baja California, east to Nevada, Utah, Colorado,
central Arizona, New Mexico, and northwestern Sonora, Mexico
[15,18,20,29,30].  It is cultivated in Hawaii [37].


ECOSYSTEMS : 
   FRES29  Sagebrush
   FRES30  Desert shrub
   FRES34  Chaparral - mountain shrub
   FRES40  Desert grasslands


STATES : 
     AZ  CA  CO  HI  NV  NM  UT  MEXICO


ADMINISTRATIVE UNITS : 
     CABR  CHIS  DEVA  GRCA  LAME  ORPI
     SAMO


BLM PHYSIOGRAPHIC REGIONS : 
    3  Southern Pacific Border
    6  Upper Basin and Range
    7  Lower Basin and Range
   11  Southern Rocky Mountains
   12  Colorado Plateau


KUCHLER PLANT ASSOCIATIONS : 
   K038  Great Basin sagebrush
   K039  Blackbrush
   K040  Saltbush - greasewood
   K041  Creosotebush
   K057  Galleta - threeawn shrubsteppe


SAF COVER TYPES : 
   242  Mesquite


SRM (RANGELAND) COVER TYPES : 
NO-ENTRY


HABITAT TYPES AND PLANT COMMUNITIES : 
Big saltbrush seldom obtains dominance or codominance in plant
communities.  It therefore has not been identified in the literature as
an indicator species.

Big saltbrush is commonly associated with the following species:
salt-cedar (Tamarix chinensis), arrow-weed pluchea (Pluchea sericea),
screwbean mesquite (Prosopis pubescens), honey mesquite (P. glandulosa),
seepwillow baccharis (Baccharis glutinosa), devil-weed aster (Aster
spinosis), and shadscale (Atriplex confertifolia) [1,3,14,28].

Related categories for Species: Atriplex lentiformis | Big Saltbrush