DISTRIBUTION AND OCCURRENCE
SPECIES: Lycium berlandieri | Berlandier Wolfberry 



GENERAL DISTRIBUTION : 
Berlandier wolfberry ranges from Arizona to Texas and south into Mexico
[23,31,41].  Lycium berlandieri var. berlandieri is common in southern
Texas and is distributed from southern and western Texas to central
Mexico.  Lycium b. var. parviflorum is more common in the Trans-Pecos
than the typical variety and is distributed from Arizona to western
Texas and south to northern Mexico [31].  Lycium b. f. parviflorum
occurs in Arizona and Mexico, L. b. var. longistylum is from southern
Arizona, and L. b. var. brevilobum occurs in Texas and Mexico [41].


ECOSYSTEMS : 
   FRES28  Western hardwoods
   FRES30  Desert shrub
   FRES32  Texas savanna
   FRES33  Southwestern shrubsteppe
   FRES38  Plains grasslands
   FRES39  Prairie
   FRES40  Desert grasslands


STATES : 
     AZ  NM  TX  MEXICO


ADMINISTRATIVE UNITS : 
     BIBE  GUMO  ORPI  SAGU


BLM PHYSIOGRAPHIC REGIONS : 
    7  Lower Basin and Range
   12  Colorado Plateau
   13  Rocky Mountain Piedmont
   14  Great Plains


KUCHLER PLANT ASSOCIATIONS : 
   K027  Mesquite bosque
   K040  Saltbush - greasewood
   K041  Creosotebush
   K042  Creosotebush - bursage
   K043  Paloverde - cactus shrub
   K044  Creosotebush - tarbush
   K045  Ceniza shrub
   K053  Grama - galleta steppe
   K054  Grama - tobosa prairie
   K058  Grama - tobosa shrubsteppe
   K059  Trans-Pecos shrub savanna
   K060  Mesquite savanna
   K061  Mesquite - acacia savanna
   K062  Mesquite - live oak savanna
   K065  Grama - buffalograss
   K076  Blackland prairie
   K077  Bluestem - sacahuista prairie


SAF COVER TYPES : 
    68  Mesquite
   235  Cottonwood - willow
   241  Western live oak
   242  Mesquite


SRM (RANGELAND) COVER TYPES : 
NO-ENTRY


HABITAT TYPES AND PLANT COMMUNITIES : 
Berlandier wolfberry occurs in many habitats but usually does not attain
dominance.  It is characteristic of Sonoran or Chihuahuan desert scrub
vegetation and is associated in those regions with ocotillo (Fouquieria
splendens), saguaro (Carneigea gigantea), range ratany (Krameria
parvifolia), ironwood (Olneya tesota), jojoba (Simmondsia chinensis),
false-mesquite (Calliandra eriophylla), brittle bush (Encelia farinosa),
leatherstem (Jatropha cardiophylla), feather dalea (Dalea formosa),
yucca (Yucca spp.), agave (Agave spp.), prickly pear and cholla (Opuntia
spp.), and catclaw (Acacia spp.) [3,10,30,35,37].  In the Chihuahuan
Desert, Berlandier wolfberry may also occur in alkali sacaton
(Sporobolus airoides) grasslands on deep calcareous alluvial deposits
near arroyos and in intermontane habitats along the margins of honey
mesquite (Prosopis glandulosa var. glandulosa) communities [20].

In southern Texas Berlandier wolfberry is associated with hackberry
(Celtis spp.), prickly pear, catclaw, bluewood (Condalia obovata), Texas
persimmon (Diospyros texana), lotebush (Zizyphus obtusifolia),
whitebrush (Aloysia lyciodies), agrito (Mahonia trifoliolata), desert
yaupon (Schaefferia cuneifolia), curlymesquite (Hilaria belangeri),
tobosa (Hilaria mutica), grama (Bouteloua spp.), and dropseed
(Sporobolus spp.) [8,24,28].  Mesquite-hackberry (Celtis
spp.)-Berlandier wolfberry communities are most common on smaller
drainages within sandy areas where soil textures are sandy loams, and
along edges of saline waterways near the coast [28].

Berlandier wolfberry also occurs in openings in riparian or arroyo
margin woodlands dominated by Arizona sycamore (Platanus wrightii),
Fremont cottonwood (Populus fremontii), green ash (Fraxinus
pennsylvanica), Goodding willow (Salix gooddingii), and saltcedar
(Tamarix chinensis) [29,30].

Related categories for Species: Lycium berlandieri | Berlandier Wolfberry