DISTRIBUTION AND OCCURRENCE
SPECIES: Chamaebatiaria millefolium | Desert Sweet 



GENERAL DISTRIBUTION : 
Desert sweet is distributed from Oregon, Idaho, and Wyoming, south
through eastern California, Nevada, Utah, and northern Arizona
[7,8,12,13,20].


ECOSYSTEMS : 
   FRES26  Lodgepole pine
   FRES28  Western hardwoods
   FRES29  Sagebrush
   FRES34  Chaparral - mountain shrub
   FRES35  Pinyon - juniper


STATES : 
     AZ  CA  ID  NV  OR  UT  WY


ADMINISTRATIVE UNITS : 
     CRMO  DEVA  GRCA  GRBA  LAME  LAVO
     LABE  WACA


BLM PHYSIOGRAPHIC REGIONS : 
    4  Sierra Mountains
    5  Columbia Plateau
    6  Upper Basin and Range
    7  Lower Basin and Range
    8  Northern Rocky Mountains
    9  Middle Rocky Mountains
   10  Wyoming Basin
   12  Colorado Plateau


KUCHLER PLANT ASSOCIATIONS : 
   K008  Lodgepole pine - subalpine forest
   K022  Great Basin pine forest
   K023  Juniper - pinyon woodland
   K024  Juniper steppe woodland
   K037  Mountain-mahogany - oak scrub
   K038  Great Basin sagebrush
   K055  Sagebrush steppe


SAF COVER TYPES : 
   209  Bristlecone pine
   217  Aspen
   219  Limber pine
   220  Rocky Mountain juniper
   238  Western juniper
   239  Pinyon - juniper


SRM (RANGELAND) COVER TYPES : 
NO-ENTRY


HABITAT TYPES AND PLANT COMMUNITIES : 
Desert sweet and purple Dorr's sage (Salvia dorrii ssp. carnosa)-desert
sweet habitat types at Lava Beds National Monument, California, occur on
rocky basalt lava flows where disturbance by man, fire, and grazing are
very low [3].

Desert sweet occurs in pinyon (Pinus spp.)-juniper (Juniperus spp.)
woodlands in Arizona with true pinyon (P. edulis), singleleaf pinyon (P.
monophylla), Utah juniper (J. osteosperma), and oneseed juniper (J.
monosperma).  Other associated species include broom snakeweed
(Gutierrezia sarothrae), scrub oak (Quercus turbinella), cliffrose
(Cowania mexicana), dwarf rabbitbrush (Chrysothamnus depressus), rubber
rabbitbrush (C. nauseosus), antelope bitterbrush (Purshia tridentata),
Fremont barberry (Berberis fremontii), green ephedra (Ephedra viridis),
Saskatoon serviceberry (Amelanchier alnifolia), banana yucca (Yucca
baccata), cholla or prickly pear (Opuntia spp.), blue grama (Bouteloua
gracilis), Arizona fescue (Festuca arizonica), and prairie junegrass
(Koeleria cristata) [10,11,14].

At upper elevations of the singleleaf pinyon (P. ,omophylla)-Utah
juniper (J. osteosperma) zone in the White Mountains of California,
desert sweet is associated with Great Basin bristlecone pine (Pinus
longaeva), limber pine (P. flexilis), wax currant (Ribes cereum), green
ephedra, desert bitterbrush (Purshia glandulosa), oceanspray (Holodiscus
spp.), and low rabbitbrush (Chrysothamnus viscidiflorus) [16].

Related categories for Species: Chamaebatiaria millefolium | Desert Sweet