DISTRIBUTION AND OCCURRENCE
SPECIES: Delphinium × occidentale | Duncecap Larkspur 



GENERAL DISTRIBUTION : 
Duncecap larkspur is distributed from northeastern Oregon to Montana and
south to Nevada, Utah, and Colorado [9,10,11,15,27].  In addition, Welsh
and others [27] report populations in Arizona and New Mexico.


ECOSYSTEMS : 
   FRES20  Douglas-fir
   FRES21  Ponderosa pine
   FRES23  Fir - spruce
   FRES26  Lodgepole pine
   FRES28  Western hardwoods
   FRES29  Sagebrush
   FRES34  Chaparral - mountain shrub
   FRES36  Mountain grasslands
   FRES37  Mountain meadows
   FRES44  Alpine


STATES : 
     AZ  CO  ID  MT  NV  NM  OR  UT  WY


ADMINISTRATIVE UNITS : 
     BIHO  GLAC  GRTE  MORA  ROMO  TICA
     YELL


BLM PHYSIOGRAPHIC REGIONS : 
    5  Columbia Plateau
    6  Upper Basin and Range
    8  Northern Rocky Mountains
    9  Middle Rocky Mountains
   10  Wyoming Basin
   11  Southern Rocky Mountains
   12  Colorado Plateau
   16  Upper Missouri Basin and Broken Lands


KUCHLER PLANT ASSOCIATIONS : 
   K011  Western ponderosa forest
   K012  Douglas-fir forest
   K015  Western spruce - fir forest
   K018  Pine - Douglas-fir forest
   K020  Spruce - fir - Douglas-fir forest
   K021  Southwestern spruce - fir forest
   K022  Great Basin pine forest
   K037  Mountain-mahogany - oak scrub
   K038  Great Basin sagebrush
   K052  Alpine meadows and barren
   K055  Sagebrush steppe
   K063  Foothills prairie


SAF COVER TYPES : 
   206  Engelmann spruce - subalpine fir
   208  Whitebark pine
   210  Interior Douglas-fir
   211  White fir
   217  Aspen
   218  Lodgepole pine
   219  Limber pine
   237  Interior ponderosa pine


SRM (RANGELAND) COVER TYPES : 
NO-ENTRY


HABITAT TYPES AND PLANT COMMUNITIES : 
Duncecap larkspur is common in open coniferous forests and aspen,
sagebrush, mountain brush, and meadow habitats.  It is listed as a
codominant herbaceous layer species in the following publication:

Subalpine forb community types of the Bridger-Teton National Forest,
  Wyoming [8]

Some forbs associated with duncecap larkspur in subalpine forb
communities include mountain bluebells (Mertensia ciliata), horsemint
(Agastache urticifolia), cowparsnip (Heracleum lanatum), western
coneflower (Rudbeckia occidentalis), arrowleaf groundsel (Senecio
triangularis), cutleaf balsamroot (Balsamorhiza macrophylla), sticky
geranium (Geranium viscosissimum), silvery lupine (Lupinus argenteus),
fernleaf licoriceroot (Ligusticum filicinum), tufted hairgrass
(Deschampsia cespitosa), mountain brome (Bromus carinatus), and cutting
wheatgrass (Agropyron caninus) [8].
 

Related categories for Species: Delphinium × occidentale | Duncecap Larkspur