DISTRIBUTION AND OCCURRENCE
SPECIES: Salsola kali | Russian-Thistle 



GENERAL DISTRIBUTION : 
Native to Eurasia, Russian-thistle is distributed throughout most arid
and semiarid regions of the world.  In North America Russian thistle
occurs from British Columbia east to Labrador and south through the
conterminous United States to northern Mexico [18,34].  It is most
common in central and western regions of Canada and the United States,
and along the Atlantic and Gulf coasts.  Limited southern and eastern
inland populations occur along waste areas and railroad tracks [61].
Russian-thistle is adventitious in Hawaii [66].


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
   FRES29  Sagebrush
   FRES30  Desert shrub
   FRES31  Shinnery
   FRES32  Texas savanna
   FRES33  Southwestern shrubsteppe
   FRES34  Chaparral - mountain shrub
   FRES35  Pinyon - juniper
   FRES36  Mountain grasslands
   FRES37  Mountain meadows
   FRES38  Plains grasslands
   FRES39  Prairie
   FRES40  Desert grasslands
   FRES42  Annual grasslands
   FRES44  Alpine


STATES : 
     AK  AZ  AR  CA  CO  CT  DE  FL  GA  HI
     ID  IL  IN  IA  KS  KY  LA  ME  MD  MA
     MI  MN  MS  MO  MT  NE  NV  NJ  NM  NY
     NC  ND  OH  OK  OR  PA  RI  SC  SD  TN
     TX  UT  VT  VA  WA  WV  WI  WY  AB  BC
     LB  MB  NF  ON  PQ  SK  MEXICO


ADMINISTRATIVE UNITS : 
     ACAD  AGFO  ARCH  ASIS  BADL  BRCA
     CABR  CACH  CANY  CACO  CALO  CARE
     CACA  CHCU  COLO  COLM  CODA  CUIS
     DEVA  DEWA  DINO  FIIS  FOBO  FOBU
     GATE  GUMO  GUIS  JODA  JOTR  KICA
     LAMR  LABE  MEVE  NABR  NERI  PIPE
     ROMO  SAGU  SAMO  SEQU  SCBL  SLBE
     SUCR  THRO  WICA  WUPA  YELL  YOSE
     ZION


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
    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 : 
   Common in many Kuchler Plant Associations


SAF COVER TYPES : 
   Common in many SAF Cover Types


SRM (RANGELAND) COVER TYPES : 
NO-ENTRY


HABITAT TYPES AND PLANT COMMUNITIES : 
Russian-thistle occurs in many communities.  It is most common along
seabeaches and in disturbed grassland and desert communities, with the
largest populations occurring in semiarid regions [50,61].  Pure stands
occur in southern Nevada between elevations of 4,000 and 6,000 feet
(1,219-1829 m) [9].  A published classification listing Russian-thistle
as dominant is:

Valley grassland [32]

Russian-thistle associates are too numerous to list due to its
widespread distribution.

Related categories for Species: Salsola kali | Russian-Thistle