DISTRIBUTION AND OCCURRENCE
SPECIES: Ratibida columnifera | Upright Prairie Coneflower 



GENERAL DISTRIBUTION : 
Upright prairie coneflower is predominantly a Great Plains species which
extends from southeastern British Columbia [30] to Manitoba [21] and
Michigan [55], south through Illinois [21] to Louisiana, and west
through Texas and northern Mexico [24] to Arizona [27].  Naturalized
populations occur east of the Cascades [30] and in New England [2].


ECOSYSTEMS : 
   FRES15  Oak - hickory
   FRES17  Elm - ash - cottonwood
   FRES21  Ponderosa pine
   FRES23  Fir - spruce
   FRES29  Sagebrush
   FRES30  Desert shrub
   FRES31  Shinnery
   FRES32  Texas savanna
   FRES34  Chaparral - mountain shrub
   FRES35  Pinyon - juniper
   FRES36  Mountain grasslands
   FRES38  Plains grasslands
   FRES39  Prairie


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


ADMINISTRATIVE UNITS : 
     AMIS  BADL  BIBE  BITH  BICA  CACH
     CACA  DETO  FLFO  FOBO  GLAC  GRCA
     GRTE  GUMO  JECA  LAMR  PIPE  ROMO
     SCBL  THRO  WICA  YELL


BLM PHYSIOGRAPHIC REGIONS : 
    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
   14  Great Plains
   15  Black Hills Uplift
   16  Upper Missouri Basin and Broken Lands


KUCHLER PLANT ASSOCIATIONS : 
   K011  Western ponderosa forest
   K016  Eastern ponderosa forest
   K017  Black Hills pine forest
   K018  Pine - Douglas-fir forest
   K021  Southwestern spruce - fir forest
   K023  Juniper - pinyon woodland
   K037  Mountain-mahogany - oak scrub
   K038  Great Basin sagebrush
   K040  Saltbush - greasewood
   K045  Ceniza shrub
   K056  Wheatgrass - needlegrass shrubsteppe
   K060  Mesquite savanna
   K062  Mesquite - live oak savanna
   K063  Foothills prairie
   K064  Grama - needlegrass - wheatgrass
   K065  Grama - buffalograss
   K066  Wheatgrass - needlegrass
   K067  Wheatgrass - bluestem - needlegrass
   K070  Sandsage - bluestem prairie
   K071  Shinnery
   K074  Bluestem prairie
   K077  Bluestem - sacahuista prairie
   K081  Oak savanna
   K084  Cross Timbers
   K086  Juniper - oak savanna
   K098  Northern floodplain forest


SAF COVER TYPES : 
    14  Northern pin oak
    40  Post oak - blackjack oak
    42  Bur oak
    52  White oak - black oak - northern red oak
    53  White oak
    55  Northern red oak
    62  Silver maple - American elm
    66  Ashe juniper - redberry (Pinchot) juniper
    67  Mohrs (shin) oak
    68  Mesquite
   206  Engelmann spruce - subalpine fir
   220  Rocky Mountain juniper
   237  Interior ponderosa pine
   239  Pinyon - juniper
   241  Western live oak
   242  Mesquite


SRM (RANGELAND) COVER TYPES : 
NO-ENTRY


HABITAT TYPES AND PLANT COMMUNITIES : 
Upright prairie coneflower is widespread throughout the Great Plains.
It is not listed as an indicator species in available publications.  It
occurs with a variety of associated species, depending on geographic
location and site conditions.

Lists of associated species are available for the following areas
outside the main range of upright prairie coneflower:  the "hard lands"
of northeastern and east-central Colorado [39], the Edwards Plateau of
west-central Texas [43], the lower Rio Grande Valley of south Texas
[52], and the Coastal Sand Plain of south Texas [13].

Related categories for Species: Ratibida columnifera | Upright Prairie Coneflower