Apache-plume occurs in Arizona, southern California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, western Texas, southern and central Utah, and northern Mexico [7,58]. It has been introduced into Idaho east of Boise and has established well [7,15]. Apache-plume from Utah was planted in Baker County, Oregon, in 1976 and performed "exceedingly well" [15].
Apache-plume is not listed as a dominant for any habitat type. However, it appears as sub-dominant in a Colorado pinyon pine-alligator juniper (Pinus edulis-Juniperus deppeana)/Apache-plume/common wolftail (Lycurus phleoides)-bottlebrush squirreltail (Elymus elymoides) habitat type in pinyon-juniper woodlands in New Mexico [40]. A Colorado pinyon pine/rubber rabbitbrush (Chrysothamnus nauseous)-Apache-plume habitat type is described by 2 sources [32,51] in Arizona and New Mexico. Additionally, the same 2 sources [32,51] list a oneseed juniper (Juniperus monosperma)/rubber rabbitbrush-Apache-plume habitat type in Arizona and New Mexico. In Arizona Steuver and Hayden [51] describe
a singleleaf pinyon (Pinus monophylla)/rubber rabbitbrush-Apache-plume habitat type. Another source [37] describes 3 pinyon-juniper (Pinus-Juniperus spp.) woodland associations in Arizona and New Mexico (inferred from literature and defined by woodland climates) as:
1. oneseed juniper/Apache-plume in low sun cold climate types
2. pinyon pine/Apache-plume in high sun cold climate types
3. one-seed juniper/Apache-plume/Parmelia neoconspersa malpais (a lichen) in high sun cold climate types.
Shrubs commonly associated with Apache-plume in the pinyon-juniper habitat type include [4]:
Apache-plume is part of the shrub understory in the Emory oak/Mexican pinyon (Quercus emoryi/Pinus cembroides) community type found in southwestern New Mexico [35], and Moir [36] discusses an Apache-plume "non-climatic" series vegetation classification in mostly Arizona and New Mexico. This is restricted to volcanic malpais, an extensive area of rough, barren lava flows, in the Cibola Forest. Ferguson [18] discusses a bitterbrush-Stansbury cliffrose-Apache-plume complex that occurs in the southwestern California to southern Nevada region.
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SPECIES: Fallugia paradoxa
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