DISTRIBUTION AND OCCURRENCE
SPECIES: Artemisia dracunculus | Tarragon 



GENERAL DISTRIBUTION : 
Although primarily a species of the Missouri River drainage, tarragon is
considered one of the most common of the herbaceous sagebrush in the
western United States [3].  This species is widely distributed from the
Yukon, British Columbia, and Washington, south to Baja California, and
eastward to Illinois, Texas, and northern Mexico.  In the Pacific
Northwest, its range is typically east of the Cascade Range [2].


ECOSYSTEMS : 
   FRES15  Oak - hickory
   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
   FRES40  Desert grasslands


STATES : 
     AZ  AR  CA  CO  ID  IL  IA  KS  MN  MO
     MT  NE  NV  NM  ND  OK  OR  SD  TX  UT
     WA  WI  WY  AB  BC  MB  SK  YT  MEXICO


ADMINISTRATIVE UNITS : 
     AGFO  BICA  CARE  COLM  CODA  CRMO
     DEVA  DETO  DINO  FOBU  GLAC  GRCA
     GRTE  GRSA  JOTR  MEVE  NABR  PINN
     ROMO  SAMO  THRO  TICA  WICA  YELL
     ZION


BLM PHYSIOGRAPHIC REGIONS : 
    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 : 
   K015  Western spruce - fir forest
   K016  Eastern ponderosa forest
   K017  Black Hills pine forest
   K018  Pine - Douglas-fir forest
   K019  Arizona pine forest
   K023  Juniper - pinyon woodland
   K037  Mountain mahogany - oak scrub
   K038  Great Basin sagebrush
   K040  Saltbush - greasewood
   K051  Wheatgrass - bluegrass
   K055  Sagebrush steppe
   K056  Wheatgrass - needlegrass shrubsteppe
   K057  Galleta - three-awn 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
   K075  Nebraska Sandhills prairie
   K081  Oak savanna


SAF COVER TYPES : 
   206  Engelmann spruce - subalpine fir
   210  Interior Douglas-fir
   217  Aspen
   219  Limber pine
   237  Interior ponderosa pine
   239  Pinyon - juniper


SRM (RANGELAND) COVER TYPES : 
NO-ENTRY


HABITAT TYPES AND PLANT COMMUNITIES : 
Tarragon is a minor seral species within a variety of nonforested and
forested communities throughout the western United States.  Mueggler and
Stewart [15] report its presence in a number of grassland and shrubland
habitat types in Montana including those within the rough fescue
(Festuca scabrella), bluebunch wheatgrass (Pseudoroegneria spicata), big
sagebrush (Artemisia tridentata), bitterbrush (Purshia tridentata), and
skunkbush sumac (Rhus trilobata) series.  In forested habitat types it
occurs as an understory species within the limber pine (Pinus flexilis),
ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa), and Douglas-fir (Pseudotsuga
menziesii) series [16].

Related categories for Species: Artemisia dracunculus | Tarragon