VALUE AND USE
SPECIES: Lycium pallidum | Pale Wolfberry 



WOOD PRODUCTS VALUE : 
NO-ENTRY


IMPORTANCE TO LIVESTOCK AND WILDLIFE : 
Pale wolfberry fruits are consumed by birds and some rodents [24,26,33],
and its foliage may be browsed by livestock [23,24,33,42,43].  It is
little used by big game, however [26].

Pale wolfberry is an important postnesting food for phainopepla in the
Colorado River Valley.  The spring phainopepla diet consists mainly
of pale wolfberry fruits and insects [4].

Shrub-grasslands, in which pale wolfberry occurs, are preferred habitat
of coyotes at the Pinon Canyon Maneuver Site in southeastern Colorado
[16].

Woodrats in the Mohave Desert of California select pale wolfberry
foliage significantly (p<.001) more often than creosotebush (Larrea
tridentata) foliage [30].


PALATABILITY : 
NO-ENTRY


NUTRITIONAL VALUE : 
Mineral composition values of pale wolfberry collected in May in the
northern Mohave Desert are available [45].


COVER VALUE : 
Dense thickets [43] of pale wolfberry probably provide cover for birds
and small mammals.


VALUE FOR REHABILITATION OF DISTURBED SITES : 
Specific information regarding the use of pale wolfberry for
rehabilitating disturbed sites is not available in the literature.
Wolfberries (Lycium spp.), however, have been used to rehabilitate
abandoned farmland in the Sonoran Desert lowlands and disturbed sites
near Red Rock, Arizona.  The sites were restored by establishing berms
on the contour and then seeding with wolfberry and other desert shrubs
[22].


OTHER USES AND VALUES : 
Historically, Native Americans have eaten pale wolfberry berries and
have used the plant for a wide variety of medicinal purposes [23,33,43].

Pale wolfberry is grown as an ornamental [33,43].


MANAGEMENT CONSIDERATIONS : 
NO-ENTRY

Related categories for Species: Lycium pallidum | Pale Wolfberry