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