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DISTRIBUTION AND OCCURRENCE
SPECIES: Bouteloua hirsuta
| Hairy Grama
Hairy grama is an important and prominent feature of the shortgrass prairies of the Great Plains [35]. It is widely distributed and less important from eastern South Dakota to Wisconsin and Illinois, south to New Mexico, Texas and Louisiana and into Mexico, west to southern Utah, Nevada, and southern California. The plant also appears as a disjunct population in Florida [19,79].
FRES14 Oak-pine
FRES30 Desert shrub
FRES31 Shinnery
FRES32 Texas savanna
FRES33 Southwestern shrubsteppe
FRES34 Chaparral-mountain shrub
FRES35 Pinyon-juniper
FRES36 Mountain grasslands
FRES38 Plains grasslands
FRES39 Prairie
FRES40 Desert grasslands
AL AZ AR CA CO FL IL IA KS MI MN MS
MO MT NE NV NM ND OK SD TX UT WI WY
AB MB ON SK
MEXICO
7 Lower Basin and Range
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
K016 Eastern ponderosa forest
K017 Black Hills pine forest
K023 Juniper-pinyon woodland
K024 Juniper steppe woodlands
K027 Mesquite bosque
K044 Creosotebush-tarbush
K045 Ceniza shrub
K053 Grama-galleta steppe
K054 Grama-tobosa prairie
K057 Galleta-threeawn shrub-steppe
K058 Grama-tobosa shrub-steppe
K059 TransPecos shrub savanna
K060 Mesquite savanna
K061 Mesquite-acacia savanna
K064 Grama-needlegrass-wheatgrass
K065 Grama-buffalograss
K068 Wheatgrass-grama-buffalograss
K071 Shinnery
K075 Nebraska Sandhills prairie
K076 Blackland prairie
K084 Cross Timbers
K085 Mesquite-buffalograss
K086 Juniper-oak savanna
K087 Mesquite-oak savanna
67 Mohrs Oak
68 Mesquite
237 Interior ponderosa pine
238 Western juniper
239 Pinyon-juniper
242 Mesquite
207 Scrub oak mixed chaparral
310 Needle-and-thread-blue grama
412 Juniper-pinyon woodland
502 Grama-galleta
503 Arizona chaparral
504 Juniper-pinyon pine woodland
505 Grama-tobosa shrub
509 Transition between oak-juniper woodland and mahogany-oak association
602 Bluestem-prairie sandreed
603 Prairie sandreed-needlegrass
604 Bluestem-grama prairie
605 Sandsage prairie
611 Blue grama-buffalograss
702 Black grama-alkali sacaton
703 Black grama-sideoats grama
706 Blue grama-sideoats grama
707 Blue grama-sideoats grama-black grama
708 Bluestem-dropseed
713 Grama-muhly-threeawn
716 Grama-feathergrass
717 Little bluestem-Indiangrass-Texas wintergrass
718 Mesquite-grama
720 Sand bluestem-little bluestem (dunes)
721 Sand bluestem-little bluestem (plains)
724 Sideoats grama-New Mexico feathergrass-winterfat
727 Mesquite-buffalograss
728 Mesquite-granjeno-acacia
729 Mesquite
730 Sand shinnery oak
732 Cross timbers-Texas (little bluestem-post oak)
734 Mesquite-oak
802 Missouri prairie
In the Sandhills of Nebraska, hairy grama is a prominent species of upper dune slopes and ridges. Its cohabitants in these open, sparsely vegetated sites are prairie sandreed (Calamovilfa longifolia), little bluestem (Schizachyrium scoparium), needle-and-thread grass (Hesperostipa comata), prairie junegrass (Koeleria macrantha), sand bluestem (Andropogon gerardii var. paucipilus), sunflower (Helianthus spp.), soapweed yucca (Yucca glauca), and leadplant (Amorpha canescens) [4,76].
At the southernmost extreme of the Great Plains tallgrass prairie, in north-central Texas, little bluestem dominates with big bluestem (Andropogon gerardii), Indian ricegrass (Sorghastrum nutans), switchgrass (Panicum virgatum), sideoats grama (B. curtipendula), hairy grama, rough dropseed (Sporobolus asper), silver bluestem (Bothriochloa saccharoides), Texas wintergrass (Stipa leucotricha), and Texas cupgrass (Eriochloa sericea) [1].
In the Guadalupe Mountains of northern Texas, in the Chihuahua desert, hairy grama appears with blue grama, black grama (B. eriopoida), wolftail (Lycurus phleoides), curly leaf muhly (Muhlenbergia setifolia), New Mexico feathergrass (Stipa neomexicana), and blue threeawn (Aristida glauca), and the shrubs smooth-leaf sotol (Dasylirion leiophyllum), feather dalea (Dalea formosa), and mariola (Parthenim incanum) [15].
In southern Texas, hairy grama appears as a sub-dominant in the little bluestem-trichloris (Trichloris spp.) association with mesquite (Prosopis glandulosa) or oak (Quercus) spp., Texas prickly-pear (Opuntia linheimeri), little bluestem, trichloris, silver bluestem, big bluestem, plains bristlegrass (Setaria macrostachya), sideoats grama, Texas wintergrass, buffalograss (Buchloe dactyloides), knotroot bristelgrass (Setaria geniculata), Indiangrass, eastern gramagrass (Tripsacum dactyloides), and big sandbur (Cenchrus myosuroides) [47].
In the Sierra Madre Occidental mountains of southeastern Arizona, southwestern New Mexico, Trans-Pecos Texas, and northern Mexico, hairy grama appears in savannas close to the Madrean evergreen woodland type. This type is dominated by several oak (Quercus spp.) and pine species (Pinus spp.) with wolftail, little bluestem, plains lovegrass (Eragrostis intermedia), blue grama, sideoats grama, tanglehead (Heteropogon contortus), green sprangletop (Leptochloa dubia), lupines (Lupinus spp.), brickelbushes (Brickelia spp.) sages (Salvia spp.), daleas (Dalea spp.), buckwheats (Eriogonum spp.), Louisiana sagewort (Artemisia ludoviciana), flatsedges (Cyperus spp.), Hibiscus spp., woodsorrels (Oxalis spp.), and beans (Phaseolus spp.) [13].
The pine savannah habitat type of western North Dakota features ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa) with an understory of big and little bluestem, prairie dropseed (Sporobolus heterolepis), stonyhills muhly (Muhlenbergia cuspidata), blue, hairy, and sideoats grama, and leadplant [29].
Habitat typings in which hairy grama appears as a community dominant include:
The flora and sandhills prairie communities of Arapaho Prairie, Arthur Country, Nebraska [43]
Some characteristics and uses of Arizona's major plant communities [58]
Vegetation of the Huachuca Mountains, Arizona [75]
Vegetation of the northern part of Cherry County, Nebraska [71]
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SPECIES: Bouteloua hirsuta
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