DISTRIBUTION AND OCCURRENCE
SPECIES: Rhus microphylla | Littleleaf Sumac 



GENERAL DISTRIBUTION : 
Littleleaf sumac occurs in dry desert foothills from southwestern
Oklahoma and western Texas to southern Arizona and northern Mexico
[10,13,20,31].


ECOSYSTEMS : 
   FRES30  Desert shrub
   FRES32  Texas savanna
   FRES33  Southwestern shrubsteppe
   FRES34  Chaparral - mountain shrub
   FRES35  Pinyon - juniper
   FRES38  Plains grasslands
   FRES40  Desert grasslands


STATES : 
     AZ  CO  NM  TX  OK  MEXICO


ADMINISTRATIVE UNITS : 
     AMIS  BIBE  CACA  CHIR  FOBO  GUMO
     LAME


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


KUCHLER PLANT ASSOCIATIONS : 
   K023  Juniper - pinyon woodland
   K027  Mesquite bosque
   K031  Oak - juniper woodlands
   K044  Creosote bush - tarbush
   K045  Ceniza shrub
   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
   K058  Mesquite - buffalograss


SAF COVER TYPES : 
    68  Mesquite
   242  Mesquite


SRM (RANGELAND) COVER TYPES : 
NO-ENTRY


HABITAT TYPES AND PLANT COMMUNITIES : 
Littleleaf sumac is not a dominant species or indicator plant in any
published classification scheme.  It commonly occurs in desert
grasslands with such species as black grama (Bouteloua eriopoda) and
tobosa (Hilaria mutica), and in desert shrublands dominated by species
such as oneseed juniper (Juniperus monosperma) and mesquite (Prosopis
spp.) [6,7].  Common plant associates of littleleaf sumac include
creosotebush (Larrea tridentata), catclaw (Acacia greggii), soaptree
yucca (Yucca elata), side-oats grama (B. curtipendula), and bush muhly
(Muhlenbergia porteri) [7,10,18].

Related categories for Species: Rhus microphylla | Littleleaf Sumac