DISTRIBUTION AND OCCURRENCE
SPECIES: Andropogon gerardii var. paucipilus | Sand Bluestem 



GENERAL DISTRIBUTION : 
Sand bluestem is restricted to the drier, sandy soils of the Great
Plains [6].  It is locally common from eastern Montana to southwestern
Minnesota and from the Dakotas to central Texas and eastern Arizona
[1,26,29].  An outlying population is located in Illinois [10].


ECOSYSTEMS : 
   FRES30  Desert shrub
   FRES31  Shinnery
   FRES32  Texas savanna
   FRES35  Pinyon - juniper
   FRES38  Plains grasslands
   FRES39  Prairie


STATES : 
     AZ  CO  HI  IL  IA  KS  MN  MT  NE  NM
     ND  OK  SD  TX  UT  WY  MEXICO


ADMINISTRATIVE UNITS : 
     AGFO  BADL  BITH  CACA  GWCA  GRCA
     GUMO  JECA  LAME  PEFO  SCBL  SUCR
     WUPA  WICA  ZION


BLM PHYSIOGRAPHIC REGIONS : 
   10  Wyoming Basin
   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
   K023  Juniper - pinyon woodland
   K039  Blackbrush
   K041  Creosotebush
   K053  Grama - galleta steppe
   K057  Galleta - threeawn shrubsteppe
   K064  Grama - needlegrass - wheatgrass
   K065  Grama - buffalograss
   K066  Wheatgrass - needlegrass
   K067  Wheatgrass - bluestem - needlegrass
   K070  Sandsage - bluestem prairie
   K071  Shinnery
   K074  Bluestem prairie
   K075  Nebraska Sandhills prairie
   K081  Oak savanna
   K098  Northern floodplain forest


SAF COVER TYPES : 
    63  Cottonwood
   239  Pinyon - juniper


SRM (RANGELAND) COVER TYPES : 
NO-ENTRY


HABITAT TYPES AND PLANT COMMUNITIES : 
Sand bluestem is an indicator of climax stands in a number of grassland
community types; common associates include prairie sandreed (Calamovilfa
longifolia), sand dropseed (Sporobolus cryptandrus), sandhill muhley
(Muhlenbergia purgens), and grama grasses (Bouteloua spp.) [33,63].

Published classification schemes listing sand bluestem as a climax
indicator or as a dominant part of the vegetation are presented below:

 Area        Classification         Authority
  
  AZ         forest hts, cts        Hanks, Fitzhugh, & Hanks 1983
  CO         general veg. pas       Baker 1980

Related categories for Species: Andropogon gerardii var. paucipilus | Sand Bluestem