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DISTRIBUTION AND OCCURRENCE

SPECIES: Symphoricarpos longiflorus | Longflower Snowberry
GENERAL DISTRIBUTION : Longflower snowberry occurs throughout Nevada and adjacent southeastern Oregon, south to southern California and northern Baja, and eastward to eastern Utah, northwestern Colorado, New Mexico, and western Texas. In Utah, this species is found primarily south of the 40th parallel, except along the Green River where it extends north into Daggett County; in Nevada it is found everywhere except the northeast corner [4]. ECOSYSTEMS : FRES29 Sagebrush FRES34 Chaparral - mountain shrub FRES35 Pinyon - juniper STATES : AZ CA CO ID NV NM OR TX UT WY ADMINISTRATIVE UNITS : ARCH CANY CARE CACA DEVA DINO GLCA GRCA GUMO LAME NABR ZION BLM PHYSIOGRAPHIC REGIONS : 5 Columbia Plateau 6 Upper Basin and Range 7 Lower Basin and Range 10 Wyoming Basin 12 Colorado Plateau 13 Rocky Mountain Piedmont KUCHLER PLANT ASSOCIATIONS : K023 Juniper - pinyon woodland K037 Mountain-mahogany - oak scrub K038 Great Basin sagebrush K055 Sagebrush steppe SAF COVER TYPES : 220 Rocky Mountain juniper 237 Interior ponderosa pine 238 Western juniper 239 Pinyon - juniper SRM (RANGELAND) COVER TYPES : NO-ENTRY HABITAT TYPES AND PLANT COMMUNITIES : Habitat types and community types using longflower snowberry as a climax indicator are limited. The following community types have been described for the northern desert shrub and pinyon-juniper zones in central Nevada [2,3]: (1) big sagebrush (Artemisia tridentata)/ serviceberry (Amelanchier pallida)/longflower snowberry; (2) big sagebrush/longflower snowberry/bluebunch wheatgrass (Pseudoroegneria spicata); (3) singleleaf pinyon (Pinus monophylla)/curlleaf mountain-mahogany (Cercocarpus ledifolius)/longflower snowberry/ arrowleaf balsamroot (Balsamorhiza sagittata); (3) longflower snowberry/ big sagebrush/cheatgrass (Bromus tectorum)/woolly wyethia (Wyethia mollis); (4) longflower snowberry/big sagebrush/serviceberry/ Idaho fescue (Festuca idahoensis); (5) longflower snowberry/Great Basin wildrye (Leymus cinereus).

Related categories for Species: Symphoricarpos longiflorus | Longflower Snowberry

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