DISTRIBUTION AND OCCURRENCE
SPECIES: Dalea purpurea | Purple Prairie Clover 



GENERAL DISTRIBUTION : 
Purple prairie clover is distributed throughout the Great Plains.  It is
indigenous from southeastern Alberta, southern Saskatchewan, and
Manitoba south to Texas and New Mexico and east to Illinois, Arkansas,
and Missouri.  It occurs infrequently westward to eastern Montana,
Colorado, and Wyoming [14,18,30].


ECOSYSTEMS : 
   FRES15  Oak - hickory
   FRES17  Elm - ash - cottonwood
   FRES36  Mountain grasslands
   FRES38  Plains grasslands
   FRES39  Prairie


STATES : 
     AR  CO  IL  IN  IA  KS  MN  MS  MO  MT
     NE  NM  ND  OK  SD  TN  TX  WY  AB  MB
     SK


ADMINISTRATIVE UNITS : 
     BADL  BICA  BUFF  CACA  DETO  EFMO
     FLFO  GUMO  INDU  JECA  NATR  OZAR
     PIPE  ROMO  THRO  WICA


BLM PHYSIOGRAPHIC REGIONS : 
   14  Great Plains
   15  Black Hills Uplift
   16  Upper Missouri Basin and Broken Lands


KUCHLER PLANT ASSOCIATIONS : 
   K063  Foothills prairie
   K064  Grama - needlegrass - wheatgrass
   K065  Grama - buffalograss
   K066  Wheatgrass - needlegrass
   K067  Wheatgrass - bluestem - needlegrass
   K068  Wheatgrass - grama - buffalograss
   K069  Bluestem - grama prairie
   K074  Bluestem prairie
   K075  Nebraska Sandhills prairie
   K082  Mosaic of K074 and K100
   K084  Cross Timbers
   K098  Northern floodplain forest


SAF COVER TYPES : 
    14  Northern pin oak
    40  Post oak - blackjack oak
    42  Bur oak
    46  Eastern redcedar
    53  White oak
    62  Silver maple - American elm
    64  Sassafras - persimmon
    93  Sugarberry - American elm - green ash
    94  Sycamore - sweetgum - American elm
    95  Black willow
   110  Black oak
   242  Mesquite


SRM (RANGELAND) COVER TYPES : 
NO-ENTRY


HABITAT TYPES AND PLANT COMMUNITIES : 
NO-ENTRY

Related categories for Species: Dalea purpurea | Purple Prairie Clover