DISTRIBUTION AND OCCURRENCE
SPECIES: Artemisia ludoviciana | Louisiana Sagewort 



GENERAL DISTRIBUTION : 
Louisiana sagewort is distributed from northwestern Alberta and the
Northwest Territories south through the Intermountain and Rocky Mountain
regions to Mexico and east to Ontario, Illinois, and Arkansas.  In the
Pacific Northwest it is rarely found east of the Cascades.  This species
occurs from sagebrush plains to mountainous areas throughout the West
and has been introduced into the eastern portion of the United States
[4,8,9].


ECOSYSTEMS : 
   FRES15  Oak - hickory
   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
   FRES40  Desert grasslands
   FRES44  Alpine


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


ADMINISTRATIVE UNITS : 
     AMIS  ARCH  BADL  BAND  BIBE  BITH
     BICA  BRCA  CANY  CARE  CACA  CHCU
     COLM  CRMO  DEVA  DEWA  DETO  DINO
     EFMO  FLFO  FOBO  FOBU  GWCA  GLAC
     GRCA  GRTE  GRKO  GRBA  GRSM  GUMO
     JODA  LAMR  MEVE  MOCA  MORA  MORU
     NABR  ORPI  PIPE  ROMO  SAGU  THRO
     TICA  WICA  WUPA  YELL  YOSE  ZION


BLM PHYSIOGRAPHIC REGIONS : 
    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
   K017  Black Hills pine 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
   K051  Wheatgrass - bluegrass
   K052  Alpine meadows and barren
   K055  Sagebrush steppe
   K056  Wheatgrass - needlegrass shrubsteppe
   K057  Galleta - threeawn 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 Sand Hills prairie
   K081  Oak savanna
   K098  Northern floodplain forest
         Disturbed


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 : 
Louisiana sagewort is a minor seral species within a wide variety of
nonforested and forested communities throughout the western United
States.  Mueggler and Stewart [18] report its presence in a number of
grassland and shrubland habitat types in Montana, including those within
the rough fescue (Festuca scabrella), Idaho fescue (F. idahoensis),
bluebunch wheatgrass (Pseudoroegneria spicata), big sagebrush (Artemisia
tridentata), and shrubby cinquefoil (Potentilla fruiticosa) series.  In
forested habitat types, it occurs as an understory species within the
limber pine (Pinus flexilis), ponderosa pine (P. ponderosa), Douglas-fir
(Pseudotsuga menziesii), and subalpine fir (Abies lasiocarpa) series
[20].

Related categories for Species: Artemisia ludoviciana | Louisiana Sagewort