Name:
Prosopis glandulosa Tamaulipan Mixed Deciduous Thornscrub Alliance
Reference:
NatureServe Biotics 2019
Description:
This alliance includes mixed deciduous shrublands (thornscrub) occurring on a variety of soil types in the Tamaulipan region of Texas and Mexico. <i>Prosopis glandulosa</i> is expected to be a constant and sometimes dominant or codominant species. It occurs in combination with a variety of other thorny shrubs depending on location, and may include <i>Vachellia farnesiana, Acanthocereus tetragonus, Atriplex</i> spp., <i>Borrichia frutescens, Celtis laevigata, Celtis ehrenbergiana, Cordia boissieri, Diospyros texana, Forestiera angustifolia, Koeberlinia spinosa, Opuntia engelmannii var. lindheimeri, Opuntia</i> spp., <i>Parkinsonia texana var. macra, Spartina spartinae, Xylothamia palmeri</i>, and <i>Zanthoxylum fagara</i>. Structure is typically a shrubland, but can approach a woodland in height in some cases. This alliance is a heterogeneous group of associations ranging from coastal sand and shell ridges that receive salt spray, to inland moderately saline sandy soils in the Tamaulipan and Trans Pecos regions, to heavy clay soils in the Rio Grande valley, to rocky slopes of the Stockton Plateau.
Accession Code:
urn:lsid:vegbank.org:commConcept:38457-{0B6F3482-6553-445B-9C5C-1E5EAAF2D531}
Plot-observations of this Community Concept:
0
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