it grows on clay with honey mesquite and other species such as burrograss ("scleropogon brevifolius"), alkali sacaton ("sporobolus airoides") and sacaton ("s. wrightii") and other dropseed grasses ("sporobolus" spp.), grama grasses ("bouteloua" spp.), muhly grasses ("muhlenbergia" spp.), and tarbush ("flourensia cernua").