DISTRIBUTION AND OCCURRENCE
SPECIES: Yucca whipplei | Our Lord's Candle 



GENERAL DISTRIBUTION : 
Our Lord's candle occurs from coastal southern California across
portions of the Mohave Desert southward into Mexico and northeast to
Arizona [24,40,41,45].  Distribution of subspecies is as follows:

ssp. caespitosa--occurs along the edge of the Mohave Desert from the San
                 Bernardino Mountains to Walker Pass and along the
                 western base of the southern Sierra Nevada. A slender
                 form of this subspecies occurs along the Kern and King
                 rivers in California [31].
ssp. intermedia--occurs near the Coast in the Santa Monica and Santa
                 Susanna mountains of Ventura and Los Angeles counties [31].
ssp. parishii--occurs along the coastal slopes of the San Gabriel and
               San Bernardino mountains [17,31].
ssp. percursa--occurs from Monterey County to Santa Barbara County; is
               particularly common in the Santa Ynez Mountains of
               southern California [31].
ssp. whipplei--occurs from Riverside and Orange counties in California
               southward into Mexico [31].


ECOSYSTEMS : 
   FRES21  Ponderosa pine
   FRES30  Desert shrub
   FRES34  Chaparral - mountain shrub
   FRES35  Pinyon - juniper


STATES : 
     CA  MEXICO


ADMINISTRATIVE UNITS : 
     LAME  PINN  SAMO


BLM PHYSIOGRAPHIC REGIONS : 
    3  Southern Pacific Border
    7  Lower Basin and Range


KUCHLER PLANT ASSOCIATIONS : 
   K005  Mixed conifer forest
   K023  Juniper - pinyon woodland
   K033  Chaparral
   K035  Coastal sagebrush
   K041  Creosotebush
   K045  Ceniza shrub


SAF COVER TYPES : 
   239  Pinyon - juniper
   241  Western live oak
   245  Pacific ponderosa pine
   255  California coast live oak


SRM (RANGELAND) COVER TYPES : 
NO-ENTRY


HABITAT TYPES AND PLANT COMMUNITIES : 
Our Lord's candle is listed as a dominant in a number of coastal sage
scrub or chapparal communities of southern California.  Common
codominants include California broomsage (Lepidospartum squamatum),
thickleaf yerba-santa (Eriodycton crassifolium), and California
sagebrush (Artemisia californica) [33].

Related categories for Species: Yucca whipplei | Our Lord's Candle