DISTRIBUTION AND OCCURRENCE
SPECIES: Fendlera rupicola | Fendlerbush 



GENERAL DISTRIBUTION : 
Fendlerbush is found from the Sabinal River to the Pecos River in
scattered locations in Texas.  It is common in the higher mountains of
the Trans-Pecos region.  It also occurs in the Davis, Chisos, and
Guadalupe mountains; northward and westward into New Mexico, Colorado,
Utah, and Arizona; and southward into Mexico [12,22].  Sickle-leaf
fendlerbush is distributed through New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado, and
sparsely in Texas in the Trans-Pecos mountains.  Wright fendlerbush is
distributed through west Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and Chihuahua,
Mexico [22].


ECOSYSTEMS : 
   FRES29  Sagebrush
   FRES30  Desert shrub
   FRES32  Texas savanna
   FRES33  Southwestern shrubsteppe
   FRES35  Pinyon - juniper
   FRES34  Chaparral - mountain shrub
   FRES40  Desert grasslands


STATES : 
     AZ  CO  NM  TX  UT  MEXICO


ADMINISTRATIVE UNITS : 
     ARCH  BLCA  CACH  CANY  CARE  CACA
     CHIR  COLM  FOBO  GRCA  GUMO  LAME
     MEVE


BLM PHYSIOGRAPHIC REGIONS : 
    7  Lower Basin and Range
   12  Colorado Plateau
   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
   K037  Mountain-mahogany - oak scrub
   K053  Grama - galleta steppe
   K054  Grama - tobosa prairie
   K058  Grama - tobosa shrubsteppe
   K086  Juniper - oak savanna


SAF COVER TYPES : 
   238  Western juniper
   239  Pinyon - juniper


SRM (RANGELAND) COVER TYPES : 
NO-ENTRY


HABITAT TYPES AND PLANT COMMUNITIES : 
Fendlerbush is often found in desert shrub, pinyon-juniper
(Pinus-Juniperus spp.)/mountain shrub and blue grama (Bouteloua
gracilis) communities throughout its range [7,15].

Fendlerbush is often found associated with oneseed juniper (Juniperus
monosperma), alligator juniper (J. deppeana), true pinyon (Pinus
edulis), wavyleaf oak (Quercus undulata), skunkbush sumac (Rhus
trilobata), mountain-mahogany (Cercocarpus breviflorus), and antelope
bitterbrush (Purshia tridentata) [7,15].

Related categories for Species: Fendlera rupicola | Fendlerbush