DISTRIBUTION AND OCCURRENCE
SPECIES: Liatris punctata | Blazing Star 



GENERAL DISTRIBUTION : 
Blazing star occurs from Alberta south to New Mexico and Mexico, east to
Manitoba and Michigan, and south to Arkansas [20,40].  Liatris punctata
var. punctata is generally more western; L. p. var. nebraskana is more
eastern; L. p. var. mexicana is found in Oklahoma and Texas [19,43].


ECOSYSTEMS : 
   FRES21  Ponderosa pine
   FRES29  Sagebrush
   FRES34  Chaparral - mountain shrub
   FRES35  Pinyon - juniper
   FRES36  Mountain grasslands
   FRES38  Plains grasslands


STATES : 
     AR  CO  IL  IA  KS  MI  MN  MO  MT  NE
     NM  ND  OK  SD  TX  WI  WY  AB  MB  SK
     MEXICO


ADMINISTRATIVE UNITS : 
     AGFO  AMIS  BADL  BIBE  BICA  CACA
     DETO  GLAC  GUMO  JECA  LAMR  PIPE
     ROMO  SCBL  THRO  WICA


BLM PHYSIOGRAPHIC REGIONS : 
    8  Northern Rocky Mountains
   10  Wyoming Basin
   11  Southern Rocky Mountains
   13  Rocky Mountain Piedmont
   14  Great Plains
   15  Black Hills Uplift
   16  Upper Missouri Basin and Broken Lands


KUCHLER PLANT ASSOCIATIONS : 
   K016  Eastern ponderosa forest
   K018  Pine - Douglas-fir forest
   K023  Juniper - pinyon woodland
   K024  Juniper steppe woodland
   K037  Mountain-mahogany - oak scrub
   K038  Great Basin sagebrush
   K055  Sagebrush steppe
   K056  Wheatgrass - needlegrass 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
   K074  Bluestem prairie
   K075  Nebraska Sandhills prairie
   K081  Oak savanna
   K098  Northern floodplain forest


SAF COVER TYPES : 
   220  Rocky Mountain juniper
   237  Interior ponderosa pine
   239  Pinyon - juniper


SRM (RANGELAND) COVER TYPES : 
NO-ENTRY


HABITAT TYPES AND PLANT COMMUNITIES : 
The following classification lists blazing star as a differential
species (i.e., limited to one habitat type out of several in the area) in
mixed-grass blue grama (Bouteloua gracilis) communities on excessively
drained hilltops and slopes:

     Classification of Native Vegetation at the Woodworth Station, North
        Dakota [32].

Associates of blazing star vary with location, since this species has a
wide ecological amplitude and it occurs in a variety of prairie
ecosystems.

Associates of blazing star in tallgrass prairie of central Oklahoma are
heath aster (Aster ericoides), Scribner's panic grass (Panicum
scribnerianum), tick-trefoil (Desmodium sessilifolium), and oldfield
goldenrod (Solidago nemoralis) [1].

Associates of blazing star in south-central South Dakota plains
grasslands include threadleaf sedge (Carex filifolia), tumble grass
(Schedonnardus paniculatus), fringed sagebrush (Artemisia frigida),
leadplant (Amorpha canescens), pale echinacea (Echinacea pallida),
scarlet gaura (Gaura coccinea), and rush skeletonplant (Lygodesmia
juncea) [41].

Associates of blazing star in the hardlands of northeastern and
east-central Colorado include sixweeks fescue (Festuca octoflora),
bottlebrush squirreltail (Elymus elymoides), slender wirelettuce
(Stephanomeria tenuifolia), wooly loco (Astragalus mollissimus), and
plains pricklypear (Opuntia polyacantha) [29].

Associates of blazing star on sandy soil in northeastern Colorado
include sand sagebrush (Artemisia filifolia), prairie sandreed
(Calamovilfa longifolia), western ragweed (Ambrosia psilostachya),
purple prairieclover (Petalostemon purpureum), Nuttall evolvulus
(Evolvulus nuttallianus), Texas croton (Croton texensis), shrubby
evening primrose (Calylophus serrulata), and scarlet globemallow
(Sphaeralcea coccinea) [29]

Related categories for Species: Liatris punctata | Blazing Star