DISTRIBUTION AND OCCURRENCE
SPECIES: Potentilla recta | Sulfur Cinquefoil 



GENERAL DISTRIBUTION : 
Sulfur cinquefoil, native to Eurasia, was introduced into North America
before 1900 [26].  It is naturalized across much of the United States
and southern Canada.  It occurs from British Columbia east to
Newfoundland and Nova Scotia, south to Florida, and west to eastern
Texas.  In the western United States, it extends south to northern
California and south in the Rocky Mountains to Wyoming [1,9,10,12,26].
Sulfur cinquefoil generally does not occur in the Great Basin, desert
Southwest, southern Rockies, or Rocky Mountain Piedmont.  Sulfur
cinquefoil is reported to occur in Boulder County, Colorado [6].


ECOSYSTEMS : 
   FRES10  White - red - jack pine
   FRES11  Spruce - fir
   FRES12  Longleaf - slash pine
   FRES13  Loblolly - shortleaf pine
   FRES14  Oak - pine
   FRES15  Oak - hickory
   FRES16  Oak - gum - cypress
   FRES17  Elm - ash - cottonwood
   FRES18  Maple - beech - birch
   FRES19  Aspen - birch
   FRES20  Douglas-fir
   FRES21  Ponderosa pine
   FRES22  Western white pine
   FRES23  Fir - spruce
   FRES24  Hemlock - Sitka spruce
   FRES25  Larch
   FRES26  Lodgepole pine
   FRES27  Redwood
   FRES28  Western hardwoods
   FRES32  Texas savanna
   FRES36  Mountain grasslands
   FRES37  Mountain meadows
   FRES38  Plains grasslands
   FRES39  Prairie
   FRES41  Wet grasslands
   FRES42  Annual grasslands


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


ADMINISTRATIVE UNITS : 
     ALPO  ASIS  BLRI  BUFF  CACO  CAHA
     CATO  CHCH  CUGA  CUVA  DEWA  EFMO
     FIIS  FODO  GATE  GWCA  GWMP  GLAC
     GRSM  HOSP  INDU  ISRO  MACA  MANA
     NATR  NERI  NOCA  OZAR  PIRO  PIPE
     RICH  ROCR  SARA  SHEN  SLBE  VAFO
     WICR


BLM PHYSIOGRAPHIC REGIONS : 
    1  Northern Pacific Border
    2  Cascade Mountains
    3  Southern Pacific Border
    4  Sierra Mountains
    5  Columbia Plateau
    8  Northern Rocky Mountains
   13  Rocky Mountain Piedmont
   14  Great Plains
   16  Upper Missouri Basin and Broken Lands


KUCHLER PLANT ASSOCIATIONS : 
NO-ENTRY


SAF COVER TYPES : 
NO-ENTRY


SRM (RANGELAND) COVER TYPES : 
NO-ENTRY


HABITAT TYPES AND PLANT COMMUNITIES : 
Sulfur cinquefoil frequently occurs in open grasslands, shrubby areas,
and disturbed areas including old fields.

In Michigan, plant associates of sulfur cinquefoil in a 3-year fallow
field included smooth brome (Bromus inermis), annual ragweed (Ambrosia
artemisiifolia), Canada bluegrass (Poa compressa), and white oldfield
aster (Aster pilosus) [26].  Major plant associates in a field abandoned
for 5 years were bladder campion (Silene latifolia), curly dock (Rumex
crispus), bitter dock (R. obtusifolius), alfalfa (Medicago sativa),
quackgrass (Elytrigia repens), timothy (Phleum pratense), and bluegrass
(Poa spp.) [11].  In a 10-year fallow field, sulfur cinquefoil occurred
with white oldfield aster, staghorn sumac (Rhus typhina), Canada
bluegrass, western yarrow (Achillea millefolium), and wild carrot
(Daucus carota) [26].  Major plant associates on a field abandoned for
15 years included orange hawkweed (Hieracium aurantiacum), yellow devil
hawkweed (H. floribundum), pussytoes (Antennaria spp.), western yarrow,
Canada goldenrod (Solidago canadensis), aster (Aster spp.), wild carrot,
yellow salsify (Tragopogon dubius), spotted knapweed (Centaurea
maculosa), smooth brome, quackgrass, timothy, and bluegrass [11].

Sulfur cinquefoil occurred with spotted knapweed and butter-and-eggs
(Linaria vulgaris) on a roadside in Glacier National Park, Montana
[15].  Sulfur cinquefoil is codominant with spotted knapweed on many
sites in Montana [18].

In 1937 in the southern Appalachian Mountains of North Carolina, sulfur
cinquefoil was present in grassy balds dominated by mountain oatgrass
(Danthonia compressa) [25].

Related categories for Species: Potentilla recta | Sulfur Cinquefoil