DISTRIBUTION AND OCCURRENCE
SPECIES: Sisymbrium altissimum | Tumblemustard 



GENERAL DISTRIBUTION : 
Tumblemustard is an introduced European weed common throughout the
United States.  It has become well established in all cultivated
portions of North America north of Mexico [11,24,31].


ECOSYSTEMS : 
   FRES15  Oak - hickory
   FRES21  Ponderosa pine
   FRES29  Sagebrush
   FRES30  Desert shrub
   FRES34  Chaparral - mountain shrub
   FRES35  Pinyon - juniper
   FRES36  Mountain grasslands
   FRES38  Plains grasslands
   FRES39  Prairie
   FRES40  Desert grasslands


STATES : 
     AK  AZ  CA  CO  HI  IA  ID  IN  KS  MI
     MD  MN  MO  MT  NV  NE  NM  NY  ND  OK
     OR  SD  TX  UT  VA  WA  WV  WY  AB  BC
     MB  ON  SK


ADMINISTRATIVE UNITS : 
     AGFO  BADL  BIHO  BICA  CACH  CARE
     CHCU  COLM  CODA  CRLA  CRMO  DEVA
     DENA  DETO  GATE  GWMP  GLAC  GRCA
     GRTE  GRKO  HALE  HAVO  INDU  ISRO
     JECA  JODA  JOTR  LAME  LAMR  LABE
     MEVE  MORA  NABR  NERI  NOCA  OLYM
     PEFO  PIPE  PORE  REDW  SAMO  SLBE
     SUCR  THRO  TICA  WACA  WICA  YELL
     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 : 
   K016  Eastern ponderosa forest
   K019  Arizona pine forest
   K023  Juniper - pinyon woodland
   K037  Mountain-mahogany - oak scrub
   K038  Great Basin sagebrush
   K039  Blackbrush
   K040  Saltbush - greasewood
   K046  Desert - vegetation largely lacking
   K051  Wheatgrass - bluegrass
   K055  Sagebrush steppe
   K056  Wheatgrass - needlegrass shrubsteppe
   K057  Galleta - threeawn shrubsteppe
   K063  Foothills prairie
   K064  Grama - needlegrass - wheatgrass
   K066  Wheatgrass - needlegrass
   K067  Wheatgrass - bluestem - needlegrass
   K070  Sandsage - bluestem prairie
   K074  Bluestem prairie
   K081  Oak savanna


SAF COVER TYPES : 
   237  Interior ponderosa pine
   239  Pinyon - juniper


SRM (RANGELAND) COVER TYPES : 
NO-ENTRY


HABITAT TYPES AND PLANT COMMUNITIES : 
Tumblemustard is an early seral species that rapidly invades disturbed
sites in both sagebrush-grassland and pinyon-juniper communities
[15,20,21,31].  Blackburn and others [3] have described a tumblemustard
community type in Nevada.  This disclimax community consists of
continually disturbed inclusions surrounding water holes and sheep
bedding grounds; black sagebrush/Indian ricegrass (Artemisia
nova/Oryzopsis hymenoides) is the presumed habitat type.

Related categories for Species: Sisymbrium altissimum | Tumblemustard