Diet Overlap

Xerospermophilus spilosoma (spotted ground squirrel)
Perognathus flavescens (plains pocket mouse)

Common Diet

Croton texensis (Texas croton)
Eriocoma hymenoides (Indian ricegrass)
Lappula occidentalis (flatspine stickseed)

Common Habitat

Arizona Mountains forests
Badlands National Park
Central and Southern mixed grasslands
Chihuahuan desert
Colorado Plateau shrublands
Colorado Rockies forests
El Morro National Monument
Lake Meredith National Recreation Area
Navajo National Monument
Nebraska Sand Hills mixed grasslands
North America
Sevilleta LTER Site
Shortgrass Steppe LTER Site
Sunset Crater Volcano National Monument
Western short grasslands
White Sands National Monument
Wupatki National Monument

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Spermophilus spilosoma, Donald P. Streubel and James P. Fitzgerald, MAMMALIAN SPECIES No. 101, pp. 1-4 (1978)
♦ 2Perognathus flavescens, R. Richard Monk and J. Knox Jone, Jr., MAMMALIAN SPECIES No. 525, pp. 1-4 (1996)
♦ 3Food Habits of Rodents Inhabiting Arid and Semi-arid Ecosystems of Central New Mexico, ANDREW G. HOPE AND ROBERT R. PARMENTER, Special Publication of the Museum of Southwestern Biology, NUMBER 9, pp. 1–75 (2007)