DISTRIBUTION AND OCCURRENCE
SPECIES: Bouteloua curtipendula | Sideoats Grama 



GENERAL DISTRIBUTION : 
Sideoats grama is widely distributed throughout much of North America
from southern California to Maine [14].  It occurs across Canada
southward into Mexico.  Sideoats grama is common throughout the Great
Plains, most of the eastern United States, and much of the Southwest
[6,34].  It is especially abundant in the central and southern mixed
prairie [37].


ECOSYSTEMS : 
   FRES21  Ponderosa pine
   FRES34  Chaparral - mountain shrub
   FRES35  Pinyon - juniper
   FRES38  Plains grasslands
   FRES39  Prairie
   FRES40  Desert grasslands


STATES : 
     AL  AZ  AR  CA  CO  CT  DE  FL  GA  HI
     ID  IL  IN  IA  KS  KY  LA  ME  MD  MA
     MI  MN  MS  MO  MT  NE  NH  NJ  NM  NY
     NC  ND  OH  OK  PA  RI  SC  SD  TN  TX
     UT  VT  VA  WV  WI  WY  AB  BC  LB  MB
     NB  NF  NS  ON  PQ  SK  Mexico


ADMINISTRATIVE UNITS : 
     AMIS  ARCH  BADL  BIBE  BICA  BUFF
     CACH  CANY  CARE  CACA  CHCU  CHIR
     COLM  CORO  DETO  FOBO  GWCA  GLCA
     GUMO  JECA  LAME  LAMR  MEVE  MOCA
     NABR  ORPI  OZAR  PEFO  PIPE  ROMO
     SAGU  SCBL  THRO  WACA  WICA  WUPA
     ZION


BLM PHYSIOGRAPHIC REGIONS : 
    3  Southern Pacific Border
    6  Upper Basin and Range
    7  Lower Basin and Range
    8  Northern Rocky Mountains
    9  Middle Rocky Mountains
   10  Wyoming Basin
   11  Southern Rocky Mountain
   12  Colorado Plateau
   13  Rocky Mountain Piedmont
   14  Great Plains
   15  Black Hills Uplift 
   16  Upper Missouri Basin and Broken Lands


KUCHLER PLANT ASSOCIATIONS : 
   K011  Western ponderosa forest
   K016  Eastern ponderosa forest
   K017  Black Hills pine forest
   K018  Pine - Douglas-fir forest
   K023  Juniper - pinyon woodland
   K031  Oak - juniper woodlands
   K037  Mountain mahogany - oak scrub
   K054  Grama - tobosa prairie
   K055  Sagebrush steppe
   K056  Wheatgrass - needlegrass shrubsteppe
   K058  Grama - tobosa shrubsteppe
   K060  Mesquite savanna
   K063  Foothills prairie
   K064  Grama - needlegrass - wheatgrass
   K065  Grama - buffalograss
   K066  Wheatgrass - needlegrass
   K067  Wheatgrass - bluestem - needlegrass
   K068  Wheatgrass - grama - buffalograss
   K069  Bluestem - grama prairie
   K070  Sandsage - bluestem prairie
   K074  Bluestem prairie
   K075  Nebraska Sandhills prairie
   K076  Blackland prairie
   K081  Oak savanna
   K098  Northern floodplain


SAF COVER TYPES : 
   210  Interior Douglas-fir
   236  Bur oak
   237  Interior ponderosa pine
   239  Pinyon - juniper
   240  Arizona cypress
   242  Mesquite


SRM (RANGELAND) COVER TYPES : 
NO-ENTRY


HABITAT TYPES AND PLANT COMMUNITIES : 
Sideoats grama is a climax indicator in a number of sagebrush,
grassland, pinyon-juniper, and ponderosa pine communities and habitat
types.  It occurs with bluebunch wheatgrass (Pseudoroegneria spicata),
western wheatgrass (Pascopyrum smithii), little bluestem (Schizachyrium
scoparium), big bluestem (Andropogon gerardii var. gerardii), Idaho
fescue (Festuca idahoensis), prairie junegrass (Koeleria cristata), blue
grama (Bouteloua gracilis), black greasewood (Sarcobatus vermiculatus),
true mountain-mahogany (Cercocarpus montanus), ponderosa pine (Pinus
ponderosa), one-seed juniper (Juniperus monosperma), and Rocky Mountain
juniper (Juniperus scopulorum).

Classifications listing sideoats grama as an indicator or dominant in
plant associationa (pas)or habitat types (hts) are presented below.

 Area                   Classification          Authority
           
SD,WY: Black Hills NF   forest & shrubland hts  Hoffman & Alexander 1987

Region 2: CO,NE,KS,     general veg. pas        Johnston 1987
          SD,WY 

Related categories for Species: Bouteloua curtipendula | Sideoats Grama