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Cercocarpus fothergilloides

Family
Rosaceae (Rose family)
Native range
Mexico
Climate
subtropical

About

Cercocarpus fothergilloides is a Mexican plant species in the rose family. It is widely distributed in northern and eastern Mexico, from Tamaulipas and Coahuila south as far as Oaxaca.

Where it grows

Cercocarpus fothergilloides is widely distributed in the states of Chihuahua, Coahuila, Nuevo León, Tamaulipas, San Luis Potosí, Querétaro, and Hidalgo, where it is found in the Sierra Madre Oriental and ranges on the Mexican Plateau. Its estimated extent of occurrence (EOO) is large, at 220,293.371 km2. Its estimated area of occupancy (AOO) is 304 km2, but is likely much larger.

Other Cercocarpus plants

Birch Leaf Mahogany · Hairy Mountain Mahogany · Birch Leaf Mahogany · Cercocarpus ledifolius var. intricatus · Curl-leaf mountain mahogany · Alderleaf mountain mahogany · Catalina Island mountain mahogany · Mountain mahogany

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Cercocarpus fothergilloides by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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