Index / Search / Ziziphus obtusifolia
§1 Plant
Ziziphus obtusifolia (Hook. ex Torr. & A. Gray) A. Gray
vernacular lotebush — species · Rhamnaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Shrub, Tree
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Rhamnaceae Juss.
- Genus
- Ziziphus
§2a
Native status, by region
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b
County-level range
· 94 counties across 5 states/territories§3Cultivation
No cultivation specs.
USDA has not characterised this taxon. Roughly four out of five plants in the database lack the detailed cultivation record present here — typically because they have not been the focus of NRCS Plant Materials work. Range and distribution data are unaffected.
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 94 counties across 5 states/territories.
Arizona view state ↗ 13 N ▾
Nevada view state ↗ 1 N ▾
New Mexico view state ↗ 5 N ▾
Oklahoma view state ↗ 4 N ▾
Texas view state ↗ 71 N ▾
- Armstrong 48011
- Atascosa 48013
- Bexar 48029
- Brewster 48043
- Briscoe 48045
- Brown 48049
- Burnet 48053
- Callahan 48059
- Cameron 48061
- Childress 48075
- Coleman 48083
- Comal 48091
- Crane 48103
- Crockett 48105
- Crosby 48107
- Culberson 48109
- Denton 48121
- Dickens 48125
- Dimmit 48127
- Duval 48131
- Edwards 48137
- Ellis 48139
- Frio 48163
- Garza 48169
- Guadalupe 48187
- Hall 48191
- Hardeman 48197
- Hays 48209
- Hidalgo 48215
- Hudspeth 48229
- Jackson 48239
- Jeff Davis 48243
- Karnes 48255
- Kenedy 48261
- Kinney 48271
- Kleberg 48273
- Lampasas 48281
- Marion 48315
- Martin 48317
- McLennan 48309
- McMullen 48311
- Medina 48325
- Midland 48329
- Milam 48331
- Mitchell 48335
- Palo Pinto 48363
- Pecos 48371
- Presidio 48377
- Randall 48381
- Reeves 48389
- San Patricio 48409
- Scurry 48415
- Shackelford 48417
- Starr 48427
- Stonewall 48433
- Sutton 48435
- Taylor 48441
- Terrell 48443
- Throckmorton 48447
- Travis 48453
- Upton 48461
- Uvalde 48463
- Val Verde 48465
- Ward 48475
- Webb 48479
- Wichita 48485
- Williamson 48491
- Wilson 48493
- Winkler 48495
- Zapata 48505
- Zavala 48507
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/ZIOB ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/8937468 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26
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