DISTRIBUTION AND OCCURRENCE
SPECIES: Tetradymia glabrata | Littleleaf Horsebrush 



GENERAL DISTRIBUTION : 
Littleleaf horsebrush occurs throughout the Great Basin, from eastern
Oregon and western Idaho south through northeastern California and
Nevada to Owens Valley, Antelope Valley, and edges of the Mojave Desert
and east to Wayne County, Utah [3,10,13].


ECOSYSTEMS : 
   FRES21  Ponderosa pine
   FRES26  Lodgepole pine
   FRES29  Sagebrush
   FRES30  Desert shrub
   FRES35  Pinyon - juniper
   FRES36  Mountain grasslands
   FRES38  Plains grasslands
   FRES40  Desert grasslands


STATES : 
     CA  NV  OR  UT


ADMINISTRATIVE UNITS : 
     CARE  DEVA


BLM PHYSIOGRAPHIC REGIONS : 
   5  Columbia Plateau
   6  Upper Basin and Range
   7  Lower Basin and Range
   8  Northern Rocky Mountains


KUCHLER PLANT ASSOCIATIONS : 
   K022  Great Basin pine forest
   K023  Juniper - pinyon woodland
   K024  Juniper steppe woodland
   K038  Great Basin sagebrush
   K040  Saltbush - greasewood
   K041  Creosotebush
   K050  Fescue - wheatgrass
   K051  Wheatgrass - bluegrass
   K053  Grama - galleta steppe
   K055  Sagebrush steppe
   K063  Foothills prairie
   K066  Wheatgrass - needlegrass


SAF COVER TYPES : 
   220  Rocky Mountain juniper
   238  Western juniper
   239  Pinyon - juniper


SRM (RANGELAND) COVER TYPES : 
NO-ENTRY


HABITAT TYPES AND PLANT COMMUNITIES : 
Since littleleaf horsebrush is a seral species, it is used an indicator
species in any habitat types.  This species is characteristic of the
lower portion of the sagebrush zone and upper salt desert [Young pers.
comm. 1987].  Throughout its range it is associated with sagebrush
(Artemisia spp.), cresotebush (Larrea tridentata), Joshua tree (Yucca
brevifolia) woodlands, and pinyon-juniper vegetation types [10].

Related categories for Species: Tetradymia glabrata | Littleleaf Horsebrush