DISTRIBUTION AND OCCURRENCE
SPECIES: Dasylirion leiophyllum | Smooth-Leaf Sotol 



GENERAL DISTRIBUTION : 
Smooth-leaf sotol occurs from southern Texas in the Rio Grande region
north into New Mexico and south to central Chihuahua, Mexico.  In Texas,
it also occurs at Presidio, Eagle Pass, and Van Horn; in New Mexico
smooth-leaf sotol occurs in the Florida Mountains [2,15].


ECOSYSTEMS : 
   FRES30  Desert shrub
   FRES32  Texas savanna
   FRES33  Southwestern shrubsteppe
   FRES34  Chaparral - mountain shrub
   FRES35  Pinyon - juniper
   FRES40  Desert grasslands


STATES : 
     NM  TX  MEXICO


ADMINISTRATIVE UNITS : 
     BIBE


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


KUCHLER PLANT ASSOCIATIONS : 
   K023  Juniper - pinyon woodland
   K024  Juniper steppe woodland
   K031  Oak - juniper woodlands
   K032  Transition between K031 and K037
   K033  Chaparral
   K037  Mountain-mahogany - oak scrub
   K040  Saltbush - greasewood
   K041  Creosotebush
   K042  Creosotebush - bursage
   K043  Paloverde - cactus shrub
   K044  Creosotebush - tarbush
   K045  Ceniza shrub
   K046  Desert: vegetation largely lacking
   K053  Grama - galleta steppe
   K054  Grama - tobosa prairie
   K057  Galleta - three-awn shrubsteppe
   K058  Grama - tobosa shrubsteppe
   K059  Trans-Pecos shrub savanna


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


SRM (RANGELAND) COVER TYPES : 
NO-ENTRY


HABITAT TYPES AND PLANT COMMUNITIES : 
Smooth-leaf sotol is dominant in the Chihuahuan Desert region on
gravelly to bouldered low south-facing slopes of the Guadalupe
Escarpment, New Mexico and Texas [7].  It is listed as a dominant
species of sotol-agave (Dasylirion-Agave) and walnut/sotol
(Juglans/sotol) vegetation types in:  Vegetation of the Guadalupe
Escarpment, New Mexico-Texas [7].

Related categories for Species: Dasylirion leiophyllum | Smooth-Leaf Sotol