DISTRIBUTION AND OCCURRENCE
SPECIES: Solidago missouriensis | Prairie Goldenrod 



GENERAL DISTRIBUTION : 
Prairie goldenrod is found from Washington, Oregon, and British Columbia
[14] east to southern Ontario; south to Tennessee [46] and Arkansas
[18]; and west to Arizona [46].  It is found elsewhere as a relict or as
a weed [19].

Solidago missouriensis var. missouriensis is found east of the Cascades,
as is S. m. var. extraria [20].  Solidago missouriensis var.
fasciculata is of the Great Plains, occasionally found as far west as
Grand Coulee, Washington [19,20]; it is also found in the northeastern
U.S. and adjacent Canada [18].  Solidago missouriensis var. tolmieana is
found west of the Cascades [19,20].


ECOSYSTEMS : 
   FRES10  White - red - jack pine
   FRES11  Spruce - fir
   FRES15  Oak - hickory
   FRES17  Elm - ash - cottonwood
   FRES19  Aspen - birch
   FRES20  Douglas-fir
   FRES21  Ponderosa pine
   FRES23  Fir - spruce
   FRES29  Sagebrush
   FRES38  Plains grasslands
   FRES39  Prairie
   FRES40  Desert grasslands


STATES : 
     AZ  AR  CO  ID  IL  IN  IA  KS  KY  MI
     MN  MO  MT  NE  NM  ND  OK  OR  SD  TN
     TX  UT  WA  WI  WY  AB  BC  MB  ON  SK


ADMINISTRATIVE UNITS : 
     AGFO  BADL  BIHO  BICA  BRCA  CHCU
     CHIR  CODA  DETO  DINO  FLFO  GLAC
     GRCA  GRTE  INDU  JECA  LAMR  MORU
     PIPE  ROMO  SAGU  SCBL  THRO  VOYA
     YELL  ZION


BLM PHYSIOGRAPHIC REGIONS : 
    1  Northern Pacific Border
    2  Cascade Mountains
    5  Columbia Plateau
    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
   K012  Douglas-fir forest
   K015  Western spruce - fir forest
   K016  Eastern ponderosa forest
   K017  Black Hills pine forest
   K018  Pine - Douglas-fir forest
   K019  Arizona pine forest 
   K020  Spruce - fir - Douglas-fir forest
   K021  Southwestern spruce - fir forest
   K023  Juniper - pinyon woodland
   K024  Juniper steppe woodland
   K031  Oak - juniper woodlands
   K037  Mountain-mahogany - oak scrub
   K038  Great Basin sagebrush
   K040  Saltbush - greasewood
   K050  Fescue - wheatgrass
   K051  Wheatgrass - bluegrass
   K055  Sagebrush steppe
   K056  Wheatgrass - needlegrass shrubsteppe
   K057  Galleta - three-awn shrubsteppe
   K058  Grama - tobosa shrubsteppe
   K063  Foothills prairie
   K064  Grama - needlegrass - wheatgrass
   K065  Grama - buffalograss
   K066  Wheatgrass - needlegrass
   K067  Wheatgrass - bluestem - needlegrass
   K068  Wheatgrass - grama - buffalograss
   K070  Sandsage - bluestem prairie
   K071  Shinnery
   K074  Bluestem prairie
   K075  Nebraska Sandhills prairie
   K081  Oak savanna
   K082  Mosaic of K074 and K100
   K093  Great Lakes spruce - fir forest
   K094  Conifer bog
   K095  Great Lakes pine forest
   K098  Northern floodplain forest
   K100  Oak - hickory forest
   K106  Northern hardwoods
   K107  Northern hardwoods - fir forest


SAF COVER TYPES : 
     1  Jack pine
    13  Black spruce - tamarack
    14  Northern pin oak
    15  Red pine
    16  Aspen
    39  Black ash - American elm - red maple
    42  Bur oak
    62  Silver maple - American elm
    63  Cottonwood
    67  Mohrs (shin) oak
   201  White spruce
   210  Interior Douglas-fir
   220  Rocky Mountain juniper
   237  Interior ponderosa pine
   238  Western juniper


SRM (RANGELAND) COVER TYPES : 
NO-ENTRY


HABITAT TYPES AND PLANT COMMUNITIES : 
Prairie goldenrod is widespread throughout the Great Plains.  It is not
listed as an indicator species in any plant community.  It occurs with a
variety of associated species, depending on geographic location and site
conditions.

Associates of prairie goldenrod in remnant upland tallgrass prairie in
west-central Missouri include eastern red-cedar (Juniperus virginiana),
dewberry (Rubus flagellaris), chokecherry (Prunus virginiana), buck
brush (Symphoricarpos orbiculatus), leadplant (Amorpha canescens), and
wild snowball (Ceanothus americanus) [21].

Associates of prairie goldenrod in the sandhills tallgrass prairie of
southeastern North Dakota include sandhill bluestem (Andropogon hallii),
Penn sedge (Carex pennsylvanica), perennial ragweed (Ambrosia
psilostachya), white sage (Artemisia ludoviciana), narrow-leaved puccoon
(Lithospermum incisum), blazing star (Liatris punctata), and prairie
rose (Rosa arkansana) [47].

Associates of prairie goldenrod on benchlands in the Cypress Hills of
southeastern Alberta include shrubby cinquefoil (Potentilla fruticosa),
yarrow (Achillea lanulosa), starry chickweed (Cerastium arvense),
northern bedstraw (Galium boreale), prairiesmoke avens (Geum triflorum),
kinnikinnick (Arctostaphylos uva-ursi), American pasqueflower (Anemone
patens), prairie thermopsis (Thermopsis rhombifolia), and fleabane
(Erigeron spp.) [11].

Associates of prairie goldenrod in fluvial sand and gravel deposits of
the riparian zone in northwestern Montana include clover (Trifolium
spp.), dandelion (Taraxacum spp.), Virginia strawberry (Fragaria
virginiana), red-osier dogwood (Cornus sericea), kinnikinnick, and
russet buffaloberry (Shepherdia canadensis) [27].

Associates of prairie goldenrod in the northern Wisconsin pine barrens
include scattered jack pine (Pinus banksiana), bur oak (Quercus
macrocarpa), and northern pin oak (Quercus ellipsoidalis) as well as
grasses (Poaceae), bracken fern (Pteridium aquilinum), sweet fern
(Myrica asplenifolia), and lowbush blueberry (Vaccinium angustifolium) [43].

Related categories for Species: Solidago missouriensis | Prairie Goldenrod