DISTRIBUTION AND OCCURRENCE
SPECIES: Bothriochloa barbinodis | Cane Bluestem 



GENERAL DISTRIBUTION : 
Cane bluestem is restricted to the southwestern United States and
Mexico.  Its range extends from southern California, across southern
Nevada to southern Colorado, south through Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico,
and Arizona into Mexico [6,25].


ECOSYSTEMS : 
   FRES21  Ponderosa pine
   FRES28  Western hardwoods
   FRES30  Desert shrub
   FRES35  Pinyon - juniper
   FRES38  Plains grasslands
   FRES40  Desert grasslands


STATES : 
     AZ  CA  NV  NM  OK  TX  UT  MEXICO


ADMINISTRATIVE UNITS : 
     AMIS  BIBE  CABR  CACH  CACA  CHIR
     CORO  FOBO  GLCA  GRCA  GUMO  JOTR
     LAME  LAMR  ORPI  SAGU  SAMO  WUPA


BLM PHYSIOGRAPHIC REGIONS : 
    7  Lower Basin and Range
   12  Colorado Plateau
   13  Rocky Mountain Piedmont
   14  Great Plains


KUCHLER PLANT ASSOCIATIONS : 
   K023  Juniper - pinyon woodland
   K031  Oak - juniper woodlands
   K053  Grama - galleta steppe
   K057  Galleta - threeawn shrubsteppe
   K058  Grama - tobosa shrubsteppe
   K060  Mesquite savanna


SAF COVER TYPES : 
   239  Pinyon - juniper
   241  Western live oak


SRM (RANGELAND) COVER TYPES : 
NO-ENTRY


HABITAT TYPES AND PLANT COMMUNITIES : 
Cane bluestem is most commonly found in semidesert grasslands, oak
woodlands, chaparral, pinyon-juniper woodlands, and shortgrass plains,
where it usually occurs as scattered plants or in small groups [19,27].
It is a common grass in many Arizona chaparral communities [6].  In oak
(Quercus emoryi) woodlands of Arizona, it is often an understory
codominant with side oats-grama (Bouteloua curtipendula), hairy grama
(Bouteloua hirsuta), threeawn (Aristida spp.), and plains lovegrass
(Eragrostis intermedia).  Cane bluestem has not been listed as a climax
indicator in published classification schemes.

Related categories for Species: Bothriochloa barbinodis | Cane Bluestem