DISTRIBUTION AND OCCURRENCE
SPECIES: Lythrum salicaria | Purple Loosestrife 



GENERAL DISTRIBUTION : 
Purple loostrife is a weed that originated from Eurasia.  It has
expanded its range in historic times and currently has a circumpolar
distribution in the Northern Hemisphere.  It has also invaded temperate
and subtropical areas of Africa, Australia, and Tasmania.  It was most
likely transported to North America as seed in ship ballast, and by the
early to mid 1800's, was well established along the Atlantic Coast.  It
is currently present in all the southern Canadian provinces, and in all
the contiguous United States north of the 35th parallel.  In the United
States, it is most common in the Northeast and Midwest, with sporadic
populations in the West [18,19].


ECOSYSTEMS : 
   FRES10  White - red - jack pine
   FRES11  Spruce - fir
   FRES15  Oak - hickory
   FRES16  Oak - gum - cypress
   FRES17  Elm - ash - cottonwood
   FRES18  Maple - beech - birch
   FRES20  Douglas-fir
   FRES28  Western hardwoods
   FRES29  Sagebrush
   FRES38  Plains grasslands
   FRES39  Prairie
   FRES41  Wet grasslands
   FRES42  Annual grasslands


STATES : 
     AL  AR  CA  CO  CT  DE  ID  IL  IN  IA
     KS  KY  ME  MD  MA  MI  MN  MO  MT  NE
     NV  NH  NJ  NY  NC  ND  OH  OR  PA  RI
     SD  TN  TX  UT  VT  VA  WA  WV  WI  WY
     AB  BC  MB  NB  NS  ON  PE  PQ  SK


ADMINISTRATIVE UNITS : 
     ACAD  BITH  BLRI  CACO  CUVA  DEWA
     FIIS  GATE  INDU  OLYM  RICH  SARA
     SLBE  VAFO  VOYA


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
    8  Northern Rocky Mountains
    9  Middle Rocky Mountains
   12  Colorado Plateau
   13  Rocky Mountain Piedmont
   14  Great Plains


KUCHLER PLANT ASSOCIATIONS : 
   K002  Cedar - hemlock - Douglas-fir forest
   K040  Saltbush - greasewood
   K048  California steppe
   K049  Tule marshes
   K055  Sagebrush steppe
   K073  Northern cordgrass prairie
   K074  Bluestem prairie
   K075  Nebraska Sandhills prairie
   K081  Oak savanna
   K082  Mosaic of K074 and K100
   K093  Great Lakes spruce - fir forest
   K094  Conifer bog
   K095  Great Lakes pine forest
   K096  Northeastern spruce - fir forest
   K098  Northern floodplain forest
   K099  Maple - basswood forest
   K100  Oak - hickory forest
   K101  Elm - ash forest
   K103  Mixed mesophytic forest
   K104  Appalachian oak forest
   K106  Northern hardwoods
   K107  Northern hardwoods - fir forest
   K108  Northern hardwoods - spruce forest
   K109  Transition between K104 and K106
   K112  Southern mixed forest
   K113  Southern floodplain forest


SAF COVER TYPES : 
     1  Jack pine
     5  Balsam fir
    12  Black spruce
    13  Black spruce - tamarack
    25  Sugar maple - beech - yellow birch
    27  Sugar maple
    31  Red spruce - sugar maple - beech
    32  Red spruce
    33  Red spruce - balsam fir
    35  Paper birch - red spruce - balsam fir
    38  Tamarack
    42  Bur oak
   107  White spruce
   108  Red maple
   230  Douglas-fir - western hemlock
   235  Cottonwood - willow


SRM (RANGELAND) COVER TYPES : 
NO-ENTRY


HABITAT TYPES AND PLANT COMMUNITIES : 
NO-ENTRY

Related categories for Species: Lythrum salicaria | Purple Loosestrife