DISTRIBUTION AND OCCURRENCE
SPECIES: Sapindus saponaria var. drummondii | Western Soapberry 



GENERAL DISTRIBUTION : 
Western soapberry grows from southwestern Missouri to southeastern
Colorado, southward to Arizona and eastward to Texas, Louisiana, and
northern Mexico [21].  It is described as a Madro-Tertiary genus which
was largely restricted to relatively moist riparian habitats as
conditions became increasingly hot and dry during the late Pleistocene
[36].


ECOSYSTEMS : 
   FRES15  Oak - hickory
   FRES16  Oak - gum - cypress
   FRES28  Western hardwoods
   FRES30  Desert shrub
   FRES32  Texas savanna
   FRES33  Southwestern shrubsteppe
   FRES40  Desert grasslands


STATES : 
     AZ  AR  CO  KS  LA  MO  NM  OK  TX  MEXICO


ADMINISTRATIVE UNITS : 
     BIBE  BICY  CHIR  FOBO


BLM PHYSIOGRAPHIC REGIONS : 
    7  Lower Basin and Range
   13  Rocky Mountain Piedmont
   14  Great Plains


KUCHLER PLANT ASSOCIATIONS : 
   K027  Mesquite bosques
   K059  Trans-Pecos shrub savanna
   K060  Mesquite savanna
   K062  Mesquite - live oak savanna
   K081  Oak savanna
   K084  Cross Timbers
   K087  Mesquite - oak savanna
   K113  Southern floodplain forest


SAF COVER TYPES : 
    68  Mesquite
   235  Cottonwood - willow
   240  Arizona cypress
   241  Western live oak
   242  Mesquite


SRM (RANGELAND) COVER TYPES : 
NO-ENTRY


HABITAT TYPES AND PLANT COMMUNITIES : 
Western soapberry grows as a dominant or codominant in a number of
Southwestern riparian communities.  Common codominants include Arizona
black walnut (Juglans major), Mexican ash (Fraxinus berlandieriana),
cedar elm (Ulmus crassifolia), and pigeon-berry (Rivina humilis).  It is
listed as a dominant or indicator in the following community type (cts)
classifications:

Area                    Classification          Authority

AZ,NM                   riparian cts            Szaro and Patton 1986

Southwest               riparian cts            Szaro 1990a

Southwest               riparian cts            Szaro 1990b

TX: Santa Ana Nat'l.    general veg. cts        Vora 1990a
    Refuge

sw NM                   riparian cts            Medina 1986

Related categories for Species: Sapindus saponaria var. drummondii | Western Soapberry