DISTRIBUTION AND OCCURRENCE
SPECIES: Mimosa biuncifera | Catclaw Mimosa 



GENERAL DISTRIBUTION : 
Catclaw mimosa occurs in central and southern Arizona, southern New
Mexico, western and central Texas, and northern Mexico [18,39].


ECOSYSTEMS : 
   FRES30  Desert shrub
   FRES32  Texas savanna
   FRES33  Southwestern shrubsteppe
   FRES34  Chaparral - mountain shrub
   FRES35  Pinyon - juniper
   FRES38  Plains grasslands


STATES : 
     AZ  NM  TX  MEXICO


ADMINISTRATIVE UNITS : 
     AMIS  BIBE  CACA  CHIR  CORO  FOBO
     GRCA  GUMO  LAMR  MOCA  SAGU


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


KUCHLER PLANT ASSOCIATIONS : 
   K023  Juniper - pinyon woodland
   K031  Oak - juniper woodlands
   K032  Transition between K031 and K037
   K043  Paloverde - cactus shrub
   K044  Creosotebush - tarbush
   K058  Grama - tobasa shrubsteppe
   K059  Trans-Pecos shrub savanna
   K085  Mesquite - buffalograss


SAF COVER TYPES : 
    66  Ashe juniper - redberry (Pinchot) juniper
    68  Mesquite
   239  Pinyon - juniper
   241  Western live oak


SRM (RANGELAND) COVER TYPES : 
NO-ENTRY


HABITAT TYPES AND PLANT COMMUNITIES : 
Catclaw mimosa occurs in many vegetation types, generally as scattered
plants intermixed with numerous other shrubs.  It is occasionally the
most abundant shrub.  In low elevation desert grassland and shrub-steppe
types, catclaw mimosa is often associated with other shrubby species,
including mesquites (Prosopis spp.), redberry juniper, oneseed juniper
(Juniperus monosperma), allthorn (Koeberlimia spinosa), catclaw acacia
(Acacia greggii), larchleaf goldenweed (Haplopappus laricifolius),
smooth sotol (Dasylirion leiophyllum), Wheeler sotol (D. wheeleri),
lechuguilla (Agave lechuguilla), and goldeneye (Viguiera stenoloba)
[11,25,36,37].  Catclaw mimosa is a common plant in the lower elevations
of Arizona chaparral.  Catclaw acacia and catclaw mimosa sometimes
become abundant on drier, rockier, more open sites in Arizona chaparral
[30].  Catclaw mimosa occurs as scattered individuals in oak, oak-pine,
and evergreen woodlands with an overstory made up of one or more of the
following trees: gray oak (Quercus grisea), Arizona white oak (Q.
arizonica), Emory oak (Q. emoryi), Mohr's oak (Q. mohriana), Mexican
pinyon (Pinus cembroides), pinyon pine (P. edulis), and alligator
juniper (Juniperus deppeana) [12,17,29,40].  Associated shrubs in
woodlands include fragrant sumac (Rhus aromatica), skunkbush sumac (R.
trilobata), beargrass (Nolina microcarpa, N. erumperus), birchleaf
mountain-mahogany (Cercocarpus betuloides), Wright silktassel (Garrya
wrightii), yerba-de-pasmo (Baccharis pteronoides), and desert broom
(Baccharis sarothroides) [12,29,40].

Published classification schemes listing catclaw mimosa as a indicator
or dominant are listed below:

Vegetation of the Organ Mountains, New Mexico [12]
Woodland communities and soils of Fort Bayard, southwestern New Mexico [29]

Related categories for Species: Mimosa biuncifera | Catclaw Mimosa