DISTRIBUTION AND OCCURRENCE
SPECIES: Phlox hoodii | Hood's Phlox 



GENERAL DISTRIBUTION : 
Hood's phlox is distributed from Alaska east to Saskatchewan and the
Dakotas south to southern California and northwestern New Mexico
[22,25,27,31,37].


ECOSYSTEMS : 
   FRES29  Sagebrush
   FRES30  Desert shrub
   FRES35  Pinyon - juniper
   FRES38  Plains grasslands


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


ADMINISTRATIVE UNITS : 
     AGFO  BADL  BICA  BLCA  CANY  CARE
     COLM  CRMO  DETO  DINO  FOBU  LABE
     MEVE  NABR  SCBL  THRO  TICA  WICA
     YELL


BLM PHYSIOGRAPHIC REGIONS : 
    2  Cascade Mountains
    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
   15  Black Hills Uplift
   16  Upper Missouri Basin and Broken Lands


KUCHLER PLANT ASSOCIATIONS : 
   K023  Juniper - pinyon woodland
   K024  Juniper steppe woodland
   K038  Great Basin sagebrush
   K039  Blackbrush
   K040  Saltbush - greasewood
   K041  Creosotebush
   K042  Creosotebush - bursage
   K043  Paloverde - cactus shrub
   K051  Wheatgrass - bluegrass
   K053  Grama - galleta steppe
   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


SAF COVER TYPES : 
    68  Mesquite
   220  Rocky Mountain juniper
   238  Western juniper
   239  Pinyon - juniper


SRM (RANGELAND) COVER TYPES : 
NO-ENTRY


HABITAT TYPES AND PLANT COMMUNITIES : 
Hood's phlox occurs in many plant communities within its wide geographic
range.  It is a prominent member of short- and mixed-grass prairie,
desert scrub, and pinyon (Pinus spp.)-juniper (Juniperus spp.)
communities.  Typically, it is the first or second most abundant forb in
most of these communities [4,20,36].  In climax blue grama (Bouteloua
gracilis)-needle-and-thread (Stipa comata)-wheatgrass (Agropyron spp.)
shortgrass prairie in Alberta, for example, it provides approximately 5
percent of total plant cover [10].  Hood's phlox does not normally
attain dominant status in any plant community, and is not listed as
indicator of habitat types.  Classifications of the plant communities of
Alaska and Yukon Territory in which it occurs were not found.

Related categories for Species: Phlox hoodii | Hood's Phlox