DISTRIBUTION AND OCCURRENCE
SPECIES: Grindelia squarrosa | Curlycup Gumweed 



GENERAL DISTRIBUTION : 
Curlycup gumweed is native to much of the area from Manitoba south to
Texas and east to Idaho and Arizona.  It is naturalized in eastern North
America and the Pacific Coast states [16,17].


ECOSYSTEMS : 
   FRES15  Oak - hickory
   FRES17  Elm - ash - cottonwood
   FRES20  Douglas-fir
   FRES21  Ponderosa pine
   FRES26  Lodgepole pine
   FRES29  Sagebrush
   FRES30  Desert shrub
   FRES31  Shinnery
   FRES34  Chaparral - mountain shrub
   FRES35  Pinyon - juniper
   FRES36  Mountain grasslands
   FRES38  Plains grasslands
   FRES39  Prairie
   FRES40  Desert grasslands


STATES : 
     AZ  CA  CO  CT  ID  IL  IN  IA  KS  ME
     MA  MI  MN  MO  MT  NE  NV  NH  NJ  NM
     NY  ND  OH  OK  OR  PA  RI  SD  TX  UT
     WA  WI  WY  AB  BC  MB  ON  PQ  SK


ADMINISTRATIVE UNITS : 
     AGFO  BADL  BICA  BRCA  CANY  CARE
     COLM  CRMO  DINO  FOBU  GLAC  GLCA
     GRTE  GRKO  GRSA  GUMO  JECA  LAME
     LAMR  ROMO  SCBL  SLBE  THRO  TICA
     WICA  YELL


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
   K016  Eastern ponderosa forest
   K017  Black Hills pine forest
   K018  Pine - Douglas-fir forest
   K022  Great Basin pine forest
   K023  Juniper - pinyon woodland
   K037  Mountain-mahogany - oak scrub
   K038  Great Basin sagebrush
   K039  Blackbrush
   K040  Saltbush - greasewood
   K041  Creosotebush
   K046  Desert: vegetation largely lacking
   K047  Fescue - oatgrass
   K050  Fescue - wheatgrass
   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
   K068  Wheatgrass - grama - buffalograss
   K069  Bluestem - grama prairie
   K070  Sandsage - bluestem prairie
   K071  Shinnery
   K074  Bluestem prairie
   K075  Nebraska Sandhills prairie
   K081  Oak savanna
   K082  Mosaic of K074 and K100
   K098  Northern floodplain forest


SAF COVER TYPES : 
    42  Bur oak
    62  Silver maple - American elm
    67  Shin (Mohrs) oak
   210  Interior Douglas-fir
   218  Lodgepole pine
   220  Rocky Mountain juniper
   229  Pacific Douglas-fir
   230  Douglas-fir - western hemlock
   237  Interior ponderosa pine
   239  Pinyon - juniper


SRM (RANGELAND) COVER TYPES : 
NO-ENTRY


HABITAT TYPES AND PLANT COMMUNITIES : 
Associates of curlycup gumweed in sagebrush-grassland vegetation in
southeastern Montana include big sagebrush (Artemisia tridentata),
plains prickly pear (Opuntia polyacantha), western wheatgrass
(Pascopyrum smithii), buffalograss (Buchloe dactyloides), and blue grama
(Bouteloua gracilis) [30].

Associates of curlycup gumweed on shortgrass rangeland in fair condition
in eastern Colorado include blue grama, buffalograss, rush skeletonplant
(Lygodesmia juncea), wavyleaf thistle (Cirsium undulatum), pricklepoppy
(Argemone intermedia), and crazyweeds (Oxytropis spp.) [20].

Associates of curlycup gumweed in tallgrass and mixed-grass prairie in
southwestern Oklahoma include big bluestem (Andropogon gerardii var.
gerardii), little bluestem (Schizachyrium scoparium), Indiangrass
(Sorghastrum nutans), sideoats grama (Bouteloua curtipendula), and
switchgrass (Panicum virgatum) [25].

Associates of curlycup gumweed on land adjacent to creek bottoms in
central Montana include wheatgrasses (Agropyron and Pascopyrum spp.),
foxtail barley (Critesion jubatum), brome (Bromus spp.), desert
saltgrass (Distichlis stricta), big sagebrush, silver sagebrush
(Artemisia cana), greasewood (Sarcobatus vermiculatus), and rubber
rabbitbrush (Crysothamnus nauseosus) [26].

Related categories for Species: Grindelia squarrosa | Curlycup Gumweed