Diet Overlap

Xerospermophilus spilosoma (spotted ground squirrel)
Perognathus flavus (silky pocket mouse)

Common Diet

Atriplex canescens (fourwing saltbush)
Croton texensis (Texas croton)
Cryptantha crassisepala (deertongue)
Lappula occidentalis (flatspine stickseed)

Common Habitat

Amistad National Recreation Area
Arizona Mountains forests
Bandelier National Monument
Carlsbad Caverns National Park
Central and Southern mixed grasslands
Central Mexican matorral
Chihuahuan desert
Chiricahua National Monument
Colorado Plateau shrublands
Colorado Rockies forests
Coronado National Monument
El Morro National Monument
Grand Canyon National Park
Guadalupe Mountains National Park
Lake Meredith National Recreation Area
Madrean Pine-Oak Woodlands
Meseta Central matorral
Nebraska Sand Hills mixed grasslands
North America
Petrified Forest National Park
Reserva de Mapimi
Sevilleta LTER Site
Shortgrass Steppe LTER Site
Sierra Madre Occidental pine-oak forests
Sierra Madre Oriental pine-oak forests
Sonoran desert
Sunset Crater Volcano National Monument
Western short grasslands
White Sands National Monument
Wupatki National Monument

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Food 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)
♦ 2Perognathus flavus, Troy L. Best and Marian P. Skupski, MAMMALIAN SPECIES No. 471, pp. 1-10 (1994)
♦ 3Spermophilus spilosoma, Donald P. Streubel and James P. Fitzgerald, MAMMALIAN SPECIES No. 101, pp. 1-4 (1978)