DISTRIBUTION AND OCCURRENCE
SPECIES: Prunus andersonii | Desert Peach 



GENERAL DISTRIBUTION : 
The range of desert peach is restricted to the western edge of the Great
Basin; plants are local in distribution on sagebrush steppe sites along
the east slope of the Sierra Nevada in California and Nevada [2,12].
Its range extends from extreme northeastern California to Kern County in
the south, then east through western Nevada to Churchill County [11].


ECOSYSTEMS : 
   FRES29  Sagebrush
   FRES30  Desert shrub
   FRES35  Pinyon - juniper


STATES : 
     CA  NV


ADMINISTRATIVE UNITS : 
     DEVA


BLM PHYSIOGRAPHIC REGIONS : 
    4  Sierra Mountains
    5  Columbia Plateau
    6  Upper Basin and Range
    7  Lower Basin and Range


KUCHLER PLANT ASSOCIATIONS : 
   K023  Juniper - pinyon woodland
   K038  Great Basin sagebrush
   K040  Saltbush - greasewood


SAF COVER TYPES : 
   239  Pinyon - juniper


SRM (RANGELAND) COVER TYPES : 
NO-ENTRY


HABITAT TYPES AND PLANT COMMUNITIES : 
Desert peach is a seral component of sagebrush-grassland and
pinyon-juniper communities situated along the western edge of the Great
Basin.  Desert peach occurs in the following habitat types:  basin big
sagebrush (Artemisia tridentata ssp. tridentata)/desert needlegrass
(Stipa speciosa), basin big sagebrush/big galleta (Hilaria jamesii),
basin big sagebrush/Thurber needlegrass (S. thurberiana), basin big
sagebrush/western needlegrass (S. occidentalis), and basin big
sagebrush/Indian ricegrass (Oryzopsis hymenoides) [21].

Related categories for Species: Prunus andersonii | Desert Peach