DISTRIBUTION AND OCCURRENCE
SPECIES: Vicia americana | American Vetch 



GENERAL DISTRIBUTION : 
American vetch is widely distributed across North America.  It occurs
from central Alaska east across Canada to southern Ontario, south to
southern Virginia, and west across the Great Plains to California,
Oregon, and Washington [32,36]


ECOSYSTEMS : 
   FRES10  White - red - jack pine
   FRES11  Spruce - fir
   FRES14  Oak - pine
   FRES15  Oak - hickory
   FRES17  Elm - ash - cottonwood
   FRES18  Maple - beech - birch
   FRES19  Aspen - birch
   FRES20  Douglas-fir
   FRES21  Ponderosa pine
   FRES22  Western white pine
   FRES23  Fir - spruce
   FRES26  Lodgepole pine
   FRES28  Western hardwoods
   FRES29  Sagebrush
   FRES34  Chaparral - mountain shrub
   FRES35  Pinyon - juniper
   FRES36  Mountain grasslands
   FRES37  Mountain meadows
   FRES38  Plains grasslands
   FRES39  Prairie
   FRES44  Alpine


STATES : 
     AK  AZ  CA  CO  CT  DE  ID  IL  IN  IA
     KS  KY  ME  MD  MA  MI  MN  MO  MT  NE
     NV  NH  NJ  NM  NY  ND  OH  OR  PA  RI
     SD  UT  VT  VA  WA  WV  WI  WY  AB  BC
     MB  NF  SK


ADMINISTRATIVE UNITS : 
     APIS  BADL  BLCA  BLRI  BRCA  CACH
     CARE  CACA  CEBR  CHIS  CHIR  COLM
     CODA  CRMO  CUVA  DEWA  DENA  FLFO
     GATE  GLAC  GRCA  GRTE  GRBA  GRSA
     GUMO  INDU  ISRO  LABE  MEVE  MORA
     MORU  NABR  NERI  NOCA  OLYM  PIPE
     REDW  ROCR  ROMO  SAHI  SAJH  SAMO
     SEQU  SHEN  THRO  TICA  VOYA  WACA
     WHIS  WICA  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 : 
   American vetch occurs in most Kuchler Plant Associations.


SAF COVER TYPES : 
   American vetch occurs in most SAF Cover Types.


SRM (RANGELAND) COVER TYPES : 
NO-ENTRY


HABITAT TYPES AND PLANT COMMUNITIES : 
American vetch is a common understory forb in quaking aspen (Populus
tremuloides) communities in northern Minnesota and northern Michigan
[3].

Some common forb associates of American vetch include western yarrow
(Achillea milleforium), alpine aster (Aster foliaceus), showy aster (A.
conspicuus), Virginia strawberry (Fragaria virginiana), wildwhite
geranium (Geranium richardsonii), sticky geranium (G.  viscosissimum),
Canada violet (Viola canadensis), western sagebrush (Artemisia
campestris), goldenrod (Solidago spp.), western snowberry
(Symphoricarpos occidentalis), and sedges (Carex spp.) [23,25,29].

Related categories for Species: Vicia americana | American Vetch