DISTRIBUTION AND OCCURRENCE
SPECIES: Juniperus ashei | Ashe Juniper 



GENERAL DISTRIBUTION : 
Ashe juniper has a limited range in southwestern North America.  It
occurs in disjunct populations in southwestern Missouri and Arkansas, in
the Arbuckle Mountains of southern Oklahoma, and in Coahuila, Mexico.
The main population occurs in west-central Texas, largely on the Edwards
Plateau [20,28,41].


ECOSYSTEMS : 
   FRES15  Oak - hickory
   FRES31  Shinnery
   FRES32  Texas savanna
   FRES38  Plains grasslands
   FRES39  Prairie


STATES : 
     AR  MO  OK  TX  MEXICO


ADMINISTRATIVE UNITS : 
     AMIS  BUFF


BLM PHYSIOGRAPHIC REGIONS : 
   13  Rocky Mountain Piedmont
   14  Great Plains


KUCHLER PLANT ASSOCIATIONS : 
   K086  Juniper - oak savanna
   K087  Mesquite - oak savanna


SAF COVER TYPES : 
    66  Ashe juniper - redberry (Pinchot) juniper
    67  Mohr ("shin") oak
    68  Mesquite


SRM (RANGELAND) COVER TYPES : 
NO-ENTRY


HABITAT TYPES AND PLANT COMMUNITIES : 
Ashe juniper forms dense to open communities with oaks (Quercus spp.),
including live oak (Q. virginiana) and Mohr oak (Q. mohriana), Texas
persimmon (Diospyros texana), and mesquite (Prosopis spp.).  These
communities have invaded many acres of adjacent little bluestem
(Schizachyrium scoparium) grasslands as a result of overgrazing and fire
suppression [42].

Publications which list Ashe juniper as a dominant or codominant
species include:

Utilization of grass- and shrublands of the southwestern United States [21].  
A comparison of some woody upland and riparian plant communities
  of the southern Edwards Plateau [46].
An ecological comparison of upland deciduous and evergreen forests of
  central Texas [45].  
North American shrublands [31].

Related categories for Species: Juniperus ashei | Ashe Juniper