DISTRIBUTION AND OCCURRENCE
SPECIES: Lupinus sericeus | Silky Lupine 



GENERAL DISTRIBUTION : 
Silky lupine is distributed east of the Cascade Range from British
Columbia south to California and Arizona and east to Alberta, Montana,
South Dakota, Colorado, and New Mexico [5,11,12,22,41].


ECOSYSTEMS : 
   FRES20  Douglas-fir
   FRES21  Ponderosa pine
   FRES23  Fir - spruce
   FRES25  Larch
   FRES26  Lodgepole pine
   FRES28  Western hardwoods
   FRES29  Sagebrush
   FRES34  Chaparral - mountain shrub
   FRES35  Pinyon - juniper
   FRES36  Mountain grasslands
   FRES37  Mountain meadows
   FRES38  Plains grasslands
   FRES44  Alpine


STATES : 
     AZ  CA  CO  ID  MT  NE  NV  NM  ND  OR
     SD  UT  WA  WY  AB  BC


ADMINISTRATIVE UNITS : 
     BIHO  BICA  CODA  FOBU  GLAC  GRTE
     NOCA  TICA  YELL  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
   15  Black Hills Uplift
   16  Upper Missouri Basin and Broken Lands


KUCHLER PLANT ASSOCIATIONS : 
   K007  Red fir forest
   K008  Lodgepole pine - subalpine forest
   K010  Ponderosa shrub forest
   K011  Western ponderosa forest
   K012  Douglas-fir forest
   K014  Grand fir - 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 
   K020  Spruce - fir - Douglas-fir forest
   K021  Southwestern spruce - fir forest
   K022  Great Basin pine forest
   K023  Juniper - pinyon woodland
   K024  Juniper steppe woodland
   K025  Alder - ash forest
   K028  Mosaic of K002 and K026
   K033  Chaparral
   K034  Montane chaparral
   K037  Mountain-mahogany - oak scrub
   K038  Great Basin sagebrush
   K050  Fescue - wheatgrass
   K051  Wheatgrass - bluegrass
   K052  Alpine meadows and barren
   K055  Sagebrush steppe
   K056  Wheatgrass - needlegrass shrubsteppe
   K063  Foothills prairie
   K064  Grama - needlegrass - wheatgrass
   K066  Wheatgrass - needlegrass
   


SAF COVER TYPES : 
   203  Balsam poplar
   206  Engelmann spruce - subalpine fir
   207  Red fir
   208  Whitebark pine
   209  Bristlecone pine
   210  Interior Douglas-fir
   212  Western larch
   213  Grand fir
   216  Blue spruce
   217  Aspen
   218  Lodgepole pine
   219  Limber pine
   220  Rocky Mountain juniper
   237  Interior ponderosa pine
   238  Western juniper
   239  Pinyon - juniper
   243  Sierra Nevada mixed conifer
   256  California mixed subalpine


SRM (RANGELAND) COVER TYPES : 
NO-ENTRY


HABITAT TYPES AND PLANT COMMUNITIES : 
Silky lupine is found in a range of habitats including grasslands,
sagebrush, mountain brush, and aspen and conifer forests [5,22,41].  The
following publications list silky lupine as an herbaceous layer dominant
in Idaho fescue (Festuca idahoensis) or common snowberry (Symphoricarpos
albus) habitats:

Grassland vegetation in the Big Horn Mountains, Wyoming [14]
Plant associations of the Wallowa-Snake Province:  Wallowa-Whitman
  National Forest [16]

Related categories for Species: Lupinus sericeus | Silky Lupine