DISTRIBUTION AND OCCURRENCE
SPECIES: Lycium pallidum | Pale Wolfberry 



GENERAL DISTRIBUTION : 
Pale wolfberry ranges from southern Colorado, Utah, and Nevada south to
California, Arizona, New Mexico, and western Texas [23,33,43,47].  The
typical variety apparently has a more southernly distribution than L.
pallidum var. oligospermum, which is found in the Mohave Desert and the
northern Sonoran Desert in California [20,31,33,43].  Pale wolfberry is
also found in Mexico in Sonora, Chihuahua, Zacatecas, and San Luis
Potosi [43].


ECOSYSTEMS : 
   FRES28  Western hardwoods
   FRES29  Sagebrush
   FRES30  Desert shrub
   FRES32  Texas savanna
   FRES33  Southwestern shrubsteppe
   FRES34  Chaparral - mountain shrub
   FRES35  Pinyon - juniper
   FRES40  Desert grasslands
   


STATES : 
     AZ  CA  CO  NV  NM  TX  UT  MEXICO


ADMINISTRATIVE UNITS : 
     BIBE  BLCA  CACH  CANY  CHCU  CHIR
     DEVA  FOBO  GRCA  GUMO  JOTR  LAME
     MEVE  MOCA  NABR  PEFO  SAGU  WACA
     WHSA  WUPA  ZION


BLM PHYSIOGRAPHIC REGIONS : 
    6  Upper Basin and Range
    7  Lower Basin and Range
   11  Southern Rocky Mountains
   12  Colorado Plateau
   13  Rocky Mountain Piedmont
   14  Great Plains


KUCHLER PLANT ASSOCIATIONS : 
   K023  Juniper - pinyon woodland
   K024  Juniper steppe woodland
   K027  Mesquite bosque
   K031  Oak - juniper woodlands
   K032  Transition between K031 and K037
   K037  Mountain-mahogany - oak scrub
   K038  Great Basin sagebrush
   K039  Blackbrush
   K040  Saltbush - greasewood
   K041  Creosotebush
   K042  Creosotebush - bursage
   K043  Paloverde - cactus shrub
   K044  Creosotebush - tarbush
   K053  Grama - galleta steppe
   K054  Grama - tobosa prairie
   K057  Galleta - three-awn shrubsteppe
   K058  Grama - tobosa shrubsteppe
   K059  Trans-Pecos shrub savanna
   K060  Mesquite savanna
   K061  Mesquite - acacia savanna


SAF COVER TYPES : 
    68  Mesquite
   220  Rocky Mountain juniper
   235  Cottonwood - willow
   239  Pinyon - juniper
   241  Western live oak
   242  Mesquite


SRM (RANGELAND) COVER TYPES : 
NO-ENTRY


HABITAT TYPES AND PLANT COMMUNITIES : 
Pale wolfberry is characteristic of Mohave Desert vegetation and, in
addition to species already mentioned, is associated in that region with
winterfat (Ceratoides lanata), range ratany (Krameria parvifolia),
ephedra (Ephedra spp.), spiny hopsage (Grayia spinosa), Schockley
goldenhead (Acamptopappus schockleyi), Fremont dalea (Dalea fremontii),
spiny menodora (Menodora spinescens), prickly pear (Opuntia spp.), and
yucca (Yucca spp.) [1,5,8,29,40,44].

Pale wolfberry is also found throughout the Sonoran and Chihuahuan
deserts and is associated with species including ocotillo (Fouquieria
splendens), ironwood (Olneya tesota), saguaro (Carnegiea gigantea),
false-mesquite (Calliandra eriophylla), feather dalea (Dalea formosa),
brittle bush (Encelia farinosa), leatherstem (Jatropha dioica), yucca,
agave (Agave spp.), prickly pear and cholla (Opuntia spp.), and catclaw
(Acacia spp.) [9,19,32].

Pale wolfberry sometimes occurs in riparian woodlands such as those in
the Rincon Mountains of Arizona.  In these habitats it is associated
with species such as sycamore (Platanus wrightii), willow (Salix spp.),
Arizona walnut (Juglans major), Fremont cottonwood (Populus fremontii),
alligator juniper (Juniperus deppeana), Arizona white oak (Quercus
arizonica), and velvet ash (Fraxinus velutina) [7].

Pale wolfberry is not listed as a dominant or codominant shrub species
in available publications.

Related categories for Species: Lycium pallidum | Pale Wolfberry