DISTRIBUTION AND OCCURRENCE
SPECIES: Juniperus pinchotii | Pinchot Juniper 



GENERAL DISTRIBUTION : 
Pinchot juniper has a limited distribution in southwestern North
America.  It occurs in disjunct populations in west-central Texas,
southeastern Oklahoma, eastern New Mexico, and Coahuila, Mexico
[46,47,59,60,62]


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


STATES : 
     OK  NM  TX  MEXICO


ADMINISTRATIVE UNITS : 
     BIBE  CACA  GUMO


BLM PHYSIOGRAPHIC REGIONS : 
   13  Rocky Mountain Piedmont
   14  Great Plains


KUCHLER PLANT ASSOCIATIONS : 
   K054  Grama - tobosa prairie
   K059  Trans-Pecos shrub savanna
   K060  Mesquite savanna
   K065  Grama - buffalograss
   K071  Shinnery
   K076  Blackland prairie
   K085  Mesquite - buffalograss
   K088  Fayette prairie


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 : 
Pinchot juniper forms dense thickets that can largely or entirely
exclude herbaceous understory vegetation [50].  It is often found with
honey mesquite (Prosopis glandulosa var. glandulosa), live oak (Quercus
virginiana), Mohrs oak (Q. mohriana), prickly-pear (Opuntia spp.),
Acacia spp., and with Ashe juniper where their ranges overlap [13].

Pinchot juniper was named as dominant in the following publication:

Ecological survey and elevational gradient implications of the flora and
vertebrate fauna in the northern Del Norte Mountains, Brewster Co.,
Texas [11].

Related categories for Species: Juniperus pinchotii | Pinchot Juniper