DISTRIBUTION AND OCCURRENCE
SPECIES: Salazaria mexicana | Bladdersage 



GENERAL DISTRIBUTION : 
Bladdersage is found in the Mojave, Sonora, and Colorado deserts from
southern California to southern Utah, western Arizona, southwestern
Texas, and northern Mexico [8,15,20,23,31].


ECOSYSTEMS : 
   FRES29  Sagebrush
   FRES30  Desert shrub
   FRES33  Southwestern shrubsteppe
   FRES35  Pinyon - juniper
   FRES40  Desert grasslands


STATES : 
     AZ  CA  NM  TX  UT  MEXICO


ADMINISTRATIVE UNITS : 
     BIBE  DEVA  GRCA  JOTR  LAME


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


KUCHLER PLANT ASSOCIATIONS : 
   K023  Juniper - pinyon woodland
   K024  Juniper steppe woodland
   K039  Blackbrush
   K041  Creosotebush
   K042  Creosotebush - bursage
   K044  Creosotebush - tarbush
   K053  Grama - galleta steppe
   K054  Grama - tobosa prairie
   K057  Galleta - three-awn shrubsteppe
   K059  Trans-Pecos shrub savanna


SAF COVER TYPES : 
   238  Western juniper
   239  Pinyon - juniper


SRM (RANGELAND) COVER TYPES : 
NO-ENTRY


HABITAT TYPES AND PLANT COMMUNITIES : 
Bladdersage is commonly found in the desert grasslands, creosotebush
(Larrea tridentata) scrub, blackbrush (Coleogyne ramosissima) scrub,
mixed desert shrub communities, Joshua tree (Yucca brevifolia)
woodlands, and pinyon (Pinyon spp.)-juniper (Juniperus spp.) woodlands
[9,11,17,18,31].  Nichol [33] described a Mojave yucca (Yucca
schidigera)-bladdersage association found on rocky soils in the Mojave
Desert of Arizona.  In addition to the above mentioned species,
bladdersage is commonly found associated with California buckwheat
(Eriogonum fasciculatum), spiny hopsage (Grayia spinosa), Nevada ephedra
(Ephedra nevadensis), green ephedra (E. viridis), and Mojave desertrue
(Thamnosma montana), [18,27].

Bladdersage is listed as a codominant species in the following
publication:

The natural vegetation of Arizona [33].

Related categories for Species: Salazaria mexicana | Bladdersage