DISTRIBUTION AND OCCURRENCE
SPECIES: Agrostis stolonifera | Creeping Bentgrass 



GENERAL DISTRIBUTION : 
Creeping bentgrass is native to Eurasia and North Africa [59].  It was
probably introduced to North America prior to 1750, and has become
naturalized throughout the southern Canadian provinces and most of the
United States [34,59].



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
   FRES28  Western hardwoods
   FRES29  Sagebrush
   FRES30  Desert shrub
   FRES34  Chaparral - mountain shrub
   FRES35  Pinyon - juniper
   FRES36  Mountain grasslands
   FRES37  Mountain meadows
   FRES38  Plains grasslands
   FRES39  Prairie
   FRES41  Wet grasslands
   FRES44  Alpine


STATES : 
     AL  AK  AZ  CA  CO  CT  DE  GA  HI  ID
     KY  ME  MD  MA  MI  MN  MO  MT  NE  NV
     NH  NJ  NM  NY  NC  ND  OH  OR  PA  RI
     SC  SD  TN  TX  UT  VT  VA  WA  WV  WI
     WY  AB  BC  MB  NF  ON  PQ  SK


ADMINISTRATIVE UNITS : 
     ALPO  ANTI  APIS  BIBE  BRCA  CALO
     CATO  COLO  CUGA  DEVA  DEWA  DETO
     GATE  GWCA  GRCA  HAVC  LAMR  MORU
     OBRI  OLYM  PIPE  RICH  ROMO  SAMO


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 : 
   K010  Ponderosa shrub forest
   K011  Western ponderosa forest
   K012  Douglas-fir forest
   K016  Eastern ponderosa forest
   K017  Black Hills pine forest
   K018  Pine - Douglas-fir forest
   K020  Spruce - fir - Douglas-fir forest
   K021  Southwestern spruce - fir forest
   K023  Juniper - pinyon woodland
   K025  Alder - ash forest
   K026  Oregon oakwoods
   K031  Oak - juniper woodlands
   K037  Mountain-mahogany - oak scrub
   K038  Great Basin sagebrush
   K040  Saltbush - greasewood
   K047  Fescue - oatgrass
   K049  Tule marshes
   K050  Fescue - wheatgrass
   K052  Alpine meadows and barren
   K055  Sagebrush steppe
   K064  Grama - needlegrass - wheatgrass
   K066  Wheatgrass - needlegrass
   K067  Wheatgrass - bluestem - needlegrass
   K074  Bluestem prairie
   K075  Nebraska Sandhills prairie
   K093  Great Lakes spruce - fir forest
   K094  Conifer bog
   K095  Great Lakes pine forest
   K096  Northeastern spruce - fir forest
   K097  Southeastern spruce - fir forest
   K098  Northern floodplain forest
   K101  Elm - ash forest
   K106  Northern hardwoods
   K107  Northern hardwoods - fir forest
   K108  Northern hardwoods - spruce forest


SAF COVER TYPES : 
     1  Jack pine
     5  Balsam fir
    12  Black spruce
    15  Red pine
    16  Aspen
    17  Pin cherry
    18  Paper birch
    21  Eastern white pine
    24  Hemlock - yellow birch
    30  Red spruce - yellow birch
    32  Red spruce
    34  Red spruce - Fraser fir
    39  Black ash - American elm - red maple
    63  Cottonwood
    95  Black willow
   107  White spruce
   108  Red maple
   206  Engelmann spruce - subalpine fir
   210  Interior Douglas-fir
   217  Aspen
   220  Rocky Mountain juniper
   222  Black cottonwood - willow
   233  Oregon white oak
   235  Cottonwood - willow
   237  Interior ponderosa pine
   239  Pinyon - juniper
   256  California mixed subalpine


SRM (RANGELAND) COVER TYPES : 
NO-ENTRY


HABITAT TYPES AND PLANT COMMUNITIES : 
Creeping bentgrass occurs in a wide variety of habitats including
pinyon-juniper (Pinus-Juniperus spp.), aspen (Populus spp.), fir-spruce
(Abies-Picea spp.), ponderosa pine (P. ponderosa), willow (Salix spp.),
subalpine forest, meadow, and alpine [4,8,12,15,37].  It is an indicator
of riparian community types in the Intermountain region; willows are
usually the dominant overstory species [4,6,15,20].

Creeping bentgrass is a member of the semiarid shrubland community of
south-central Wyoming [6].  It is a member of the northern subarctic
community in Manitoba [53].

In West Newbury, Massachusetts, creeping bentgrass occurs in the
freshwater tidal marsh community on the Merrimack River [7].  

Creeping bentgrass is a member of the herbaceous riparian plant
community on Santa Rosa Island, California.  This community type is
interspersed with the grassland community type [9].  Creeping bentgrass
is a codominant species in a grass-sedge (Carex spp.) riparian area in
Idaho [10].  In Nebraska, creeping bentgrass occurs in a native lowland
prairie complex with wetland swales [11].

The following publication lists creeping bentgrass as a community
dominant:  

Ecology and distribution of riparian vegetation in the Trout Creek
   Mountains of southeastern Oregon [15]

Species not previously mentioned but commonly associated with creeping
bentgrass include true pinyon (Pinus edulis), Gambel oak (Quercus
gambelii), oneseed juniper (Juniperus monosperma), water birch (Betula
occidentalis), boxelder (Acer negundo), bigtooth maple (A.
grandidentatum), mountain maple (A. spicatum), hazel (Corylus cornuta),
cottonwood (Populus spp.), red-osier dogwood (Cornus sericea),
chokecherry (Prunus virginiana), Baltic rush (Juncus balticus), sedge,
Kentucky bluegrass (Poa pratense), fowl bluegrass (P.  palustris),
Virginia strawberry (Fragaria virginiana), field horsetail (Equisetum
arvense), Canada thistle (Cirsium arvense), tufted hairgrass
(Deschampsia cespitosa), timothy (Phleum pratense), red clover
(Trifolium pratense), white clover (T. repens), broadleaf plantain
(Plantago major), saltgrass (Distichlis spicata), western aster (Aster
occidentalis), Rocky Mountain iris (Iris missouriensis), longleaf phlox
(Phlox longifolia), bush cinquefoil (Potentilla fruticosa), Wood's rose
(Rosa woodsii), bearberry honeysuckle (Lonicera involucrata), and
western yarrow (Achillea millefolium) [6,9,10,13,22].

  

Related categories for Species: Agrostis stolonifera | Creeping Bentgrass