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DISTRIBUTION AND OCCURRENCE

SPECIES: Achillea millefolium | Western Yarrow

GENERAL DISTRIBUTION:


Western yarrow is circumboreal. In North America, it occurs in every state, province, and in Mexico [19,33]. It is adventitious in Hawaii [62].

ECOSYSTEMS:



FRES17  Elm-ash-cottonwood
FRES20  Douglas-fir
FRES21  Ponderosa pine
FRES23  Fir-spruce
FRES29  Sagebrush
FRES30  Desert shrub
FRES34  Chaparral-mountain shrub
FRES35  Pinyon-juniper
FRES36  Mountain grasslands
FRES38  Plains grasslands
FRES39  Prairie
FRES41  Wet grasslands
FRES44  Alpine:

STATES:



AL  AK  AZ  AR  CA  CO  CT  DE  FL  GA  
HI  ID  IL  IN  IA  KS  KY  LA  ME  MD  
MA  MI  MN  MS  MO  MT  NE  NM  NV  NH  
NJ  NY  NC  ND  OH  OK  OR  PA  RI  SC  
SD  TN  TX  UT  VT  VA  WA  WV  WI  WY
DC  PR

AB  BC  MB  NB  NF  NT  ON  PQ  SK  SK  
YT

Mexico

BLM PHYSIOGRAPHIC REGIONS:



 1  Northern Pacific Border
 2  Cascade Mountains
 3  Southern Pacific Border
 4  Sierra Mountains
 5  Columbia Plateau
 6  Upper Basin and Range
 7  Lower Basin and Range
 8  Northern Rocky Mountains
 9  Middle Rocky Mountains
10  Wyoming Basin
11  Southern Rocky Mountains
12  Colorado Plateau
13  Rocky Mountain Piedmont
14  Great Plains
15  Black Hills Uplift
16  Upper Missouri Basin and Broken Lands

KUCHLER PLANT ASSOCIATIONS:



K011  Western ponderosa forest
K012  Douglas-fir forest
K015  Western spruce-fir forest
K016  Eastern ponderosa forest
K018  Pine-Douglas-fir forest
K019  Arizona pine forest
K021  Southwestern spruce-fir forest
K023  Juniper-pinyon woodland
K037  Mountain mahogany-oak scrub
K038  Great Basin sagebrush
K040  Saltbush-greasewood
K049  Tule marshes
K051  Wheatgrass-bluegrass
K052  Alpine meadows and barren
K055  Sagebrush steppe
K056  Wheatgrass-needlegrass shrubsteppe
K063  Foothills prairie
K064  Grama-needlegrass-wheatgrass
K065  Grama-buffalograss
K066  Wheatgrass-needlegrass
K067  Wheatgrass-bluestem-needlegrass
K070  Sandsage-bluestem prairie
K074  Bluestem prairie
K098  Northern floodplain forest

SAF COVER TYPES:


210  Interior Douglas-fir forest
216  Blue spruce
217  Aspen
218  Lodgepole pine
219  Limber pine
237  Interior ponderosa pine

SRM (RANGELAND) COVER TYPES:



101  Bluebunch Wheatgrass
102  Idaho Fescue
103  Green Fescue 
104  Antelope Bitterbrush-Bluegrass Wheatgrass
105  Antelope Bitterbrush-Idaho Fescue
107  Western Juniper-Big Sagebrush
109  Ponderosa pine shrubland
110  Ponderosa Pine-Grassland
204  North Coastal Shrub
309  Idaho Fescue-Western Wheatgrass
315  Big Sagebrush-Idaho Fescue
316  Big Sagebrush-Rough Fescue
317  Bitterbrush-Bluebunch Wheatgrass
323  Shrubby Cinquefoil-Rough Fescue
401  Basin Big Sagebrush
402  Mountain Big Sagebrush
409  Tall Forb
411  Aspen Woodland
413  Gambel Oak
608  Wheatgrass-Grama-Needlegrass
610  Wheatgrass
613  Fescue Grassland
805  Riparian
910  Hairgrass

HABITAT TYPES AND PLANT COMMUNITIES:


Western yarrow occurs in a variety of plant communities across its wide distribution. It is not usually a community dominant [39,54].


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