DISTRIBUTION AND OCCURRENCE
SPECIES: Bromus vulgaris | Columbia Brome 



GENERAL DISTRIBUTION : 
Columbia brome occurs from British Columbia south to the San Francisco
Bay area and the central Sierra Nevada in California [20]; its range
extends east to southwestern Alberta, western Montana, Wyoming, and Utah
[8,18,21,27].


ECOSYSTEMS : 
   FRES20  Douglas-fir
   FRES21  Ponderosa pine
   FRES22  Western white pine
   FRES23  Fir - spruce
   FRES24  Hemlock - Sitka spruce
   FRES25  Larch
   FRES26  Lodgepole pine
   FRES27  Redwood
   FRES28  Western hardwoods
   FRES36  Mountain grasslands
   FRES37  Mountain meadows


STATES : 
     CA  HI  ID  MT  OR  UT  WA  WY  AB  BC


ADMINISTRATIVE UNITS : 
     CRLA  GLAC  GRTE  MORA  NOCA  OLYM
     PORE  REDW  YELL


BLM PHYSIOGRAPHIC REGIONS : 
    1  Northern Pacific Border
    2  Cascade Mountains
    3  Southern Pacific Border
    4  Sierra Mountains
    5  Columbia Plateau
    8  Northern Rocky Mountains
    9  Middle Rocky Mountains


KUCHLER PLANT ASSOCIATIONS : 
   K002  Cedar - hemlock - Douglas-fir forest
   K003  Silver fir - Douglas-fir forest
   K004  Fir - hemlock forest
   K005  Mixed conifer forest
   K006  Redwood forest
   K007  Red fir forest
   K008  Lodgepole pine - subalpine forest
   K010  Ponderosa shrub forest
   K011  Western ponderosa forest
   K012  Douglas-fir forest
   K013  Cedar - hemlock - pine forest
   K014  Grand fir - Douglas-fir forest
   K015  Western spruce - fir forest
   K025  Alder - ash forest
   K026  Oregon oakwoods
   K028  Mosaic of K002 and K026
   K047  Fescue - oatgrass
   K063  Foothills prairie


SAF COVER TYPES : 
   206  Engelmann spruce - subalpine fir
   207  Red fir
   210  Interior Douglas-fir
   211  White fir
   212  Western larch
   213  Grand fir
   215  Western white pine
   218  Lodgepole pine
   221  Red alder
   224  Western hemlock
   225  Western hemlock - Sitka spruce
   226  Coastal true fir - hemlock
   227  Western redcedar - western hemlock
   229  Pacific Douglas-fir
   230  Douglas-fir - western hemlock
   232  Redwood
   233  Oregon white oak
   237  Interior ponderosa pine
   243  Sierra Nevada mixed conifer
   244  Pacific ponderosa pine - Douglas-fir
   245  Pacific ponderosa pine
   247  Jeffrey pine


SRM (RANGELAND) COVER TYPES : 
NO-ENTRY


HABITAT TYPES AND PLANT COMMUNITIES : 
Columbia brome is listed as an understory dominant in the following
community classification:

The phytosociology of some vine maple communities in the Mary's Peak
  Watershed [1]

Columbia brome is listed as diagnostic for the western sword
fern-mycelis-salmonberry (Polystichum spp.-Mycelis [Lactuca] spp.-Rubus
spectabilis) subassociation in the following publication:

Relations between site index, salal, plant communities, and sites
  in coastal Douglas-fir ecosystems [25]

Besides those listed in the Kuchler Plant Associations, common
associates of Columbia brome include huckleberry (Vaccinium spp.),
willow (Salix spp.), manzanita (Arctostaphylos spp.), honeysuckle
(Lonicera spp.), swamp currant (Ribes lacustre), sticky currant (Ribes
viscosissimum), prince's pine (Chimaphila umbellata), Saskatoon
serviceberry (Amelanchier alnifolia) [14], western coneflower (Rudbeckia
occidentalis), bracted strawberrry (Fragaria vesca var. bracteata) [9],
sweetroot (Osmorhiza spp.), Hooker fairybells (Disporum hookeri), and
western goldthread (Coptis occidentalis) [42].

Related categories for Species: Bromus vulgaris | Columbia Brome