DISTRIBUTION AND OCCURRENCE
SPECIES: Andropogon ternarius | Paintbrush Bluestem 



GENERAL DISTRIBUTION : 
Paintbrush bluestem occurs from New Jersey to Florida and west to
southeastern Kansas, eastern Oklahoma, and eastern Texas [13,16,19,29].


ECOSYSTEMS : 
   FRES12  Longleaf - slash pine
   FRES13  Loblolly - shortleaf pine
   FRES14  Oak - pine
   FRES15  Oak - hickory
   FRES16  Oak - gum - cypress
   FRES31  Shinnery
   FRES39  Prairie


STATES : 
     AL  AR  DE  FL  GA  KS  KY  LA  MD  MS
     MO  NJ  NC  OK  SC  TN  TX  VA


ADMINISTRATIVE UNITS : 
     BITH  CAHA  COLO  FODO  GWMP  GRSM
     MACA  NATR  OBRI  PAIS  RICH  SHIL


BLM PHYSIOGRAPHIC REGIONS : 
   14  Great Plains


KUCHLER PLANT ASSOCIATIONS : 
   K071  Shinnery
   K072  Sea oats prairie
   K076  Blackland prairie
   K082  Mosaic of K074 and K100
   K083  Cedar glades
   K084  Cross Timbers
   K088  Fayette prairie
   K089  Black Belt
   K090  Live oak - sea oats
   K100  Oak - hickory forest
   K104  Appalachian oak forest
   K111  Oak - hickory - pine forest
   K112  Southern mixed forest
   K113  Southern floodplain forest


SAF COVER TYPES : 
    40  Post oak - blackjack oak
    67  Mohrs (shin) oak
    70  Longleaf pine
    71  Longleaf pine - scrub oak
    72  Southern scrub oak
    75  Shortleaf pine
    79  Virginia pine
    80  Loblolly pine - shortleaf pine
    81  Loblolly pine
    83  Longleaf pine - slash pine
    85  Slash pine - hardwood


SRM (RANGELAND) COVER TYPES : 
NO-ENTRY


HABITAT TYPES AND PLANT COMMUNITIES : 
Species associated with paintbrush bluestem are listed for the Piedmont
region in North Carolina [3,26], Virginia, and South Carolina [26].  On
the Coastal Plain of South Carolina associated species are listed for a
midsuccessional 35-year-old abandoned field [5] and for pine-dominated
flatwoods [12].

Associated species are listed for the Central Basin and Cumberland
Plateau of Tennessee [6] and for remnant unbroken prairie in the Grand
Prairie region of eastern Arkansas [21].

Species associated with paintbrush bluestem are listed for sandhills in
northwestern Florida [17].

Associated species are listed for open grasslands of central Louisiana
[7], for a longleaf pine (Pinus palustris) plantation in central
Louisiana [33], for pitcher-plant (Sarracenia alata) bogs in western
Louisiana [25], and for upland longleaf pine savanna on the West Gulf
Coastal Plain in southwestern Louisiana and southeastern Texas [4].
Associates are listed for the Trinity River Floodplain, east Texas [27],
for a first-year loblolly pine (P. taeda) plantation in east-central
Texas [1], and for sites in north-central Texas [10].

Associates of paintbrush bluestem are listed for naturally revegetated
central Oklahoma abandoned cropland [28].

Related categories for Species: Andropogon ternarius | Paintbrush Bluestem