DISTRIBUTION AND OCCURRENCE
SPECIES: Buchloe dactyloides | Buffalo Grass 



GENERAL DISTRIBUTION : 
Buffalo grass is distributed from central Montana east to Minnesota and
south to eastern coastal Louisiana, Texas, New Mexico, eastern Arizona,
and northern Mexico [48,53].  It is incidental in northern Idaho [95]
and Virginia [79].


ECOSYSTEMS : 
   FRES15  Oak-hickory
   FRES21  Ponderosa pine
   FRES32  Texas savanna
   FRES33  Southwestern shrubsteppe
   FRES35  Pinyon-juniper
   FRES38  Plains grasslands
   FRES39  Prairie
   FRES40  Desert grasslands


STATES : 
     AZ  CO  ID  IA  KS  LA  MN  MO  MT  NE
     NM  ND  OK  SD  TX  VA  WY


ADMINISTRATIVE UNITS : 
     AGFO  AMIS  BADL  CACA  CHIC  FOLA
     FOSC  GUMO  HOME  LAME  NEPE  PIPE
     SCBL  WICR  WICA


BLM PHYSIOGRAPHIC REGIONS : 
    7  Lower Basin and Range
   10  Wyoming Basin
   11  Southern Rocky Mountains
   13  Rocky Mountain Piedmont
   14  Great Plains
   15  Black Hills Uplift
   16  Upper Missouri Basin and Broken Lands


KUCHLER PLANT ASSOCIATIONS : 
   K017  Black Hills pine forest
   K023  Juniper-pinyon woodland
   K031  Oak-juniper woodlands
   K044  Creosotebush-tarbush
   K053  Grama-galleta steppe
   K054  Grama-tobosa prairie
   K058  Grama-tobosa shrubsteppe
   K059  Trans-Pecos shrub savanna
   K060  Mesquite savanna
   K061  Mesquite-acacia savanna
   K064  Grama-needlegrass-wheatgrass
   K065  Grama-buffalograss
   K066  Wheatgrass-needlegrass
   K067  Wheatgrass-bluestem-needlegrass
   K068  Wheatgrass-grama-buffalograss
   K069  Bluestem-grama prairie
   K074  Bluestem prairie
   K075  Nebraska Sandhills prairie
   K084  Cross Timbers
   K085  Mesquite-buffalograss
   K087  Mesquite-oak savanna
   K096  Northeastern spruce-fir forest


SAF COVER TYPES : 
    40  Post oak-blackjack oak
    66  Ashe juniper-redberry (Pinchot) juniper
    68  Mesquite
   237  Interior ponderosa pine
   239  Pinyon-juniper
   242  Mesquite


SRM (RANGELAND) COVER TYPES : 
   412  Juniper-pinyon woodland
   504  Juniper-pinyon pine woodland
   505  Grama-tobosa shrub
   601  Bluestem prairie
   604  Bluestem-grama prairie
   605  Sandsage prairie
   606  Wheatgrass-bluestem-needlegrass
   607  Wheatgrass-needlegrass
   608  Wheatgrass-grama-needlegrass
   609  Wheatgrass-grama
   611  Blue grama-buffalograss
   615  Wheatgrass-saltgrass-grama
   701  Alkali sacaton-tobosagrass
   703  Black grama-sideoats grama
   704  Blue grama-western wheatgrass
   705  Blue grama-galleta
   706  Blue grama-sideoats grama
   709  Bluestem-grama
   710  Bluestem prairie
   711  Bluestem-sacahuista prairie
   712  Galleta-alkali sacaton
   713  Grama-muhly-threeawn
   714  Grama-bluestem
   715  Grama-buffalograss
   717  Little bluestem-Indiangrass-Texas wintergrass
   718  Mesquite-grama
   720  Sand bluestem-little bluestem (dunes)
   727  Mesquite-buffalograss
   728  Mesquite-granjeno-acacia
   729  Mesquite
   732  Cross timbers-Texas (little bluestem-post oak)
   733  Juniper-oak
   734  Mesquite-oak
   802  Missouri prairie


HABITAT TYPES AND PLANT COMMUNITIES : 
Buffalo grass is codominant with blue grama (Bouteloua gracilis) over
most of the shortgrass prairie [51].  It is a common component in
mixed-grass prairie [3,30], semidesert grassland of New Mexico [17], and
coastal prairie of Louisiana and Texas [33].  It is usually a minor
element in undisturbed tallgrass prairie [26,46].  Buffalo grass also
occurs in the understory of pinyon-juniper (Pinus-Juniperus spp.),
mesquite (Prosopsis spp.), and eastern ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa)
woodland [8], and in oak-hickory (Quercus-Carya spp.) savanna of the
Cross Timbers region of Texas [39].

Plant community classifications naming buffalo grass as a community
dominant are as follows:

A framework for plant community classification and conservation in
  Texas [33]
Remnant grassland vegetation and ecological affinities of the upper
  coastal prairie of Texas [34]
A vegetation classification system for New Mexico, U.S.A. [37]
Characteristics of major grassland types in western North Dakota [49]
Distribution and ecology of loess hill prairies in Atchison and Holt
  counties in northwestern Missouri [58]
A study of the vegetation of the sandhills of Nebraska [75]
Plant communites of Texas [91]
Analysis of grassland vegetation on selected key areas in southwestern
  North Dakota [109]

Related categories for Species: Buchloe dactyloides | Buffalo Grass