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CEGL004564 Larrea tridentata - Euphorbia antisyphilitica Shrubland

Type Concept Sentence: No Data Available


Common (Translated Scientific) Name: Creosotebush - Candelilla Shrubland

Colloquial Name: No Data Available

Hierarchy Level:  Association

Type Concept: This Chihuahuan Desert creosotebush community occurs in southern Trans-Pecos Texas and southwards into the Mexican provinces of Chihuahua and Coahuila. It is dominated by an open shrub stratum of Larrea tridentata, with a shorter succulent shrub stratum of Euphorbia antisyphilitica.

Diagnostic Characteristics: No Data Available

Rationale for Nominal Species or Physiognomic Features: No Data Available

Classification Comments: No Data Available

Similar NVC Types: No Data Available
note: No Data Available

Physiognomy and Structure: No Data Available

Floristics: No Data Available

Dynamics:  No Data Available

Environmental Description:  No Data Available

Geographic Range: This Chihuahuan Desert creosotebush community occurs in southern Trans-Pecos Texas and southwards into the Mexican provinces of Chihuahua and Coahuila.

Nations: MX,US

States/Provinces:  MXCHH, MXCOA, TX




Confidence Level: Low - Poorly Documented

Confidence Level Comments: No Data Available

Grank: G3

Greasons: No Data Available


Concept Lineage: No Data Available

Predecessors: No Data Available

Obsolete Names: No Data Available

Obsolete Parents: No Data Available

Synonomy: = Larrea tridentata - Euphorbia antisyphilitica PA (Wood et al. 1999)
< Creosotebush-Lechuguilla-Candelilla (Leopold and Krausman 1988)
= Lechuguilla-Grass-Candelilla Cover Type (Plumb 1988)

Concept Author(s): A.S. Weakley and K.D. Patterson

Author of Description: A.S. Weakley and K.D. Patterson

Acknowledgements: No Data Available

Version Date: 10-01-96

  • Diamond, D. D. 1993. Classification of the plant communities of Texas (series level). Unpublished document. Texas Natural Heritage Program, Austin. 25 pp.
  • Leopold, B. D., and P. R. Krausman. 1988. Plant associations of the lower desert shrubland in Big Bend National Park, Texas. Contributed paper second symposium on the Resources of the Chihuahuan Desert. Chihuahuan Desert Research Institute, Alpine, TX. 47 pp.
  • Plumb, G. A. 1988. An algorithmic approach to automated vegetation mapping of Big Bend National Park, Texas. Ph.D. dissertation, University of Kansas, Lawrence. 449 pp.
  • Southeastern Ecology Working Group of NatureServe. No date. International Ecological Classification Standard: International Vegetation Classification. Terrestrial Vegetation. NatureServe, Durham, NC.
  • Wood, S., G. Harper, E. Muldavin, and P. Neville. 1999. Vegetation map of the Sierra del Carmen, U.S.A. and Mexico. Final report submitted to Big Bend National Park by the New Mexico Natural Heritage Program, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM. 57 pp.