DISTRIBUTION AND OCCURRENCE
SPECIES: Tamarix ramosissima | Saltcedar 



GENERAL DISTRIBUTION : 
Saltcedar is an introduced species native to Asia and southeastern
Europe.  Since its escape from cultivation in the 1870's, saltcedar has
become extensively naturalized in the southwestern United States and
Mexico [8,30,39,40].  It extends north to Massachusetts, Indiana,
Missouri, Kansas, Colorado, Nebraska, and Oklahoma [42].  Small but
well-established stands of saltcedar occur in Oregon, Idaho, Montana,
Wyoming, and South Dakota [40].


ECOSYSTEMS : 
   FRES15  Oak - hickory
   FRES17  Elm - ash - cottonwood
   FRES21  Ponderosa pine
   FRES29  Sagebrush
   FRES30  Desert shrub
   FRES34  Chaparral - mountain shrub
   FRES36  Mountain grasslands
   FRES38  Plains grasslands
   FRES39  Prairie
   FRES40  Desert grasslands


STATES : 
     AZ  CA  CO  ID  IN  KS  MA  MO  MT  NE
     NV  NM  OK  OR  SD  TX  UT  WY  MEXICO


ADMINISTRATIVE UNITS : 
     BICA  BLCA  CACH  CHCU  COLM  DEVA
     GLCA  GRCA  GUMO  JOTR  LAME  MEVE
     MOCA  NABR  ORPI  PEFO  TICA  WHIS
     WUPA  ZION


BLM PHYSIOGRAPHIC REGIONS : 
   3  Southern Pacific Border
   5  Columbia Plateau
   6  Upper Basin and Range
   7  Lower Basin and Range
   9  Middle Rocky Mountains
   10 Wyoming Basin
   11 Southern Rocky Mountains
   12 Colorado Plateau
   14 Great Plains
   15 Black Hills Uplift
   16 Upper Missouri Basin and Broken Lands


KUCHLER PLANT ASSOCIATIONS : 
NO-ENTRY


SAF COVER TYPES : 
   63  Cottonwood
   95  Black willow
   235 Cottonwood - willow
   242 Mesquite


SRM (RANGELAND) COVER TYPES : 
   107  Western juniper/big sagebrush/bluebunch wheatgrass
   211  Creosotebush scrub
   212  Blackbush
   314  Big sagebrush-bluebunch wheatgrass
   315  Big sagebrush-Idaho fescue
   316  Big sagebrush-rough fescue
   320  Black sagebrush-bluebunch wheatgrass
   321  Black sagebrush-Idaho fescue
   405  Black sagebrush
   406  Low sagebrush
   407  Stiff sagebrush
   413  Gambel oak
   414  Salt desert shrub
   501  Saltbush-greasewood
   506  Creosotebush-bursage
   508  Creosotebush-tarbush
   612  Sagebrush-grass


HABITAT TYPES AND PLANT COMMUNITIES : 
Saltcedar commonly forms pure stands in disturbed riparian areas of the
Southwest [1,35,45].  Published classifications listing saltcedar as a
dominant are listed below:

Ecological study of southwestern riparian habitats: techniques and data
  applicability [1]
Classification of riparian habitat in the Southwest [35]
Riparian forest and scrubland community types of Arizona and New Mexico [45]

Saltcedar is sometimes found with the following species:  sandbar willow
(Salix exigua), New Mexico forestiera (Forestiera neomexicana), Fremont
cottonwood (Populus fremontii), boxelder (Acer negundo), Gambel oak
(Quercus gambelii), fourwing saltbrush (Atriplex canescens), greasewood
(Sarcobatus vermiculatus), salt grass (Distichlis stricta), and
rabbitfootgrass (Polypogon monspeliensis) [6,7,45,46].

Related categories for Species: Tamarix ramosissima | Saltcedar