DISTRIBUTION AND OCCURRENCE
SPECIES: Salix gooddingii | Goodding Willow 



GENERAL DISTRIBUTION : 
Goodding willow is distributed from northern California to southern
Utah, southeast through New Mexico to the Texas panhandle, and west to
Arizona and southern California.  It is also found in river valleys of
northern Mexico [16,18,19,31].


ECOSYSTEMS : 
   FRES28  Western hardwoods
   FRES30  Desert shrub
   FRES33  Southwestern shrubsteppe
   FRES34  Chaparral - mountain shrub
   FRES35  Pinyon - juniper


STATES : 
     AZ  CA  NV  NM  TX  UT  MEXICO


ADMINISTRATIVE UNITS : 
     BIBE  CACA  CHCU  CHIR  DEVA  FOBO
     GRCA  GUMO  JOTR  LAME  MOCA  ORPI
     SAGU  WHSA  ZION


BLM PHYSIOGRAPHIC REGIONS : 
    3  Southern Pacific Border
    6  Upper Basin and Range
    7  Lower Basin and Range
   12  Colorado Plateau
   13  Rocky Mountain Piedmont


KUCHLER PLANT ASSOCIATIONS : 
   K023  Juniper - pinyon woodland
   K030  California oakwoods
   K035  Coastal sagebrush
   K041  Creosotebush
   K042  Creosotebush - bursage
   K044  Creosotebush - tarbush
   K058  Grama - tobosa shrubsteppe
   K059  Trans-Pecos shrub savanna


SAF COVER TYPES : 
   235  Cottonwood - willow
   239  Pinyon - juniper
   240  Arizona cypress
   246  California black oak
   249  Canyon live oak
   250  Blue oak - Digger pine
   255  California coast live oak


SRM (RANGELAND) COVER TYPES : 
NO-ENTRY


HABITAT TYPES AND PLANT COMMUNITIES : 
Goodding willow is dominant in many riparian communities of the West,
where it frequently codominates with Fremont cottonwood (Populus
fremontii) [24,27,28].  It is listed as a dominant plant species in the
following published classifications:

Classification of riparian habitat in the Southwest [21]
Southwestern riparian plant communities:  site characteristics,
   tree species distributions, and size-class structures [28]
Terrestrial natural communities of California [11]

Common plant associates of Goodding willow are Arizona sycamore
(Platanus wrightii), mesquite (Prosopis spp.), desertwillow (Chilopsis
linearis), and southwestern condalia (Condalia lyciodes) [7,9].

Related categories for Species: Salix gooddingii | Goodding Willow