DISTRIBUTION AND OCCURRENCE
SPECIES: Calamagrostis canadensis | Bluejoint Reedgrass 



GENERAL DISTRIBUTION : 
Bluejoint reedgrass is the most common and widespread Calamagrostis
species in North America [38].  It occurs throughout the boreal and
temperate regions.  Bluejoint reedgrass is common in the subarctic from
Alaska to Quebec, and extends south to all but the southeastern United
States [16,17,38].


ECOSYSTEMS : 
   FRES11  Spruce - fir
   FRES19  Aspen - birch
   FRES20  Douglas-fir
   FRES21  Ponderosa pine
   FRES22  Western white pine
   FRES23  Fir - spruce
   FRES25  Larch
   FRES26  Lodgepole pine
   FRES28  Western hardwoods
   FRES34  Chaparral - mountain shrub
   FRES35  Pinyon - juniper
   FRES36  Mountain grasslands
   FRES37  Mountain meadows
   FRES38  Plains grasslands
   FRES39  Prairie
   FRES41  Wet grasslands
   FRES44  Alpine


STATES : 
     AK  AZ  CA  CO  CT  DE  HI  ID  IL  IN
     IA  KS  KY  ME  MD  MA  MI  MN  MO  MT
     NE  NV  NH  NJ  NM  NY  NC  ND  OH  OR
     PA  RI  SD  TN  UT  VA  VT  WA  WV  WI
     WY  AB  BC  LB  MB  NB  NF  NT  NS  ON
     PE  PQ  SK  YT


ADMINISTRATIVE UNITS : 
     ACAD  APIS  BIHO  CACO  CRLA  CUVA
     DEWA  DENA  EFMO  FLFO  GLBA  GLAC
     GRCA  GRTE  GRKO  INDU  ISRO  LACL
     LAVO  MORA  NOCA  PIRO  PIPE  ROMO
     SHEN  SLBE  THRO  TICA  VOYA  WRST
     YELL  YOSE  YUCH


BLM PHYSIOGRAPHIC REGIONS : 
    1  Northern Pacific Border
    2  Cascade Mountains
    3  Southern Pacific Border
    4  Sierra Mountains
    5  Columbia Plateau
    6  Upper Basin and Range
    7  Lower Basin and Range
    8  Northern Rocky Mountains
    9  Middle Rocky Mountains
   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


KUCHLER PLANT ASSOCIATIONS : 
   K005  Mixed conifer forest
   K007  Red fir forest
   K008  Lodgepole pine - subalpine forest
   K010  Ponderosa shrub - forest
   K011  Western ponderosa pine
   K012  Douglas-fir forest
   K014  Grand fir - Douglas-fir forest
   K015  Western spruce - fir forest
   K016  Eastern ponderosa forest
   K017  Black Hills pine forest
   K018  Pine - Douglas-fir forest
   K021  Southwestern spruce - fir forest
   K023  Juniper - pinyon woodland
   K030  California oakwoods
   K033  Chaparral
   K034  Montane chaparral
   K037  Mountain mahogany - oak scrub
   K038  Great Basin sagebrush
   K049  Tules marshes
   K052  Alpine meadows and barren
   K055  Sagebrush steppe
   K056  Wheatgrass - needlegrass shrubsteppe
   K063  Foothills prairie
   K064  Grama - needlegrass - wheatgrass
   K065  Grama - buffalograss
   K066  Wheatgrass - needlegrass
   K067  Wheatgrass - bluestem - needlestem
   K068  Wheatgrass - grama - buffalograss
   K069  Bluestem - grama prairie
   K074  Bluestem prairie
   K081  Oak savanna
   K093  Great Lakes spruce - fir forest
   K094  Conifer bog
   K096  Northeastern spruce - fir forest
   K098  Northern floodplain forest
   K104  Appalacian oak forest
   K111  Oak - hickory - pine forest


SAF COVER TYPES : 
    12  Black spruce
    13  Black spruce - tamarack
    16  Aspen
    18  Paper birch
    21  Eastern white pine
    22  White pine - hemlock
    37  Paper birch - red spruce - balsam fir
    38  Tamarack
    68  Mesquite
   107  White spruce
   201  White spruce
   202  White spruce - paper birch
   204  Black spruce
   206  Engelmann spruce - subalpine fir
   208  Whitebark pine
   212  Western Larch
   215  Western white pine
   217  Aspen
   218  Lodgepole pine
   243  Sierra Nevada mixed conifer
   246  California black oak
   250  Blue oak - Digger pine
   251  White spruce - aspen
   252  Paper birch
   253  Black spruce - white spruce
   254  Black spruce - paper birch
   255  California coast live oak
   256  California mixed subalpine


SRM (RANGELAND) COVER TYPES : 
NO-ENTRY


HABITAT TYPES AND PLANT COMMUNITIES : 
Bluejoint reedgrass occurs as an understory dominant or codominant in
many early seral to climax riparian and cool, moist forest communities.
Published classifications listing bluejoint reedgrass as a dominant or
codominant in habitat types (hts), dominance types (dts), community
types (cts), riparian site types (rst), and plant associations (pas) are
listed below:

Area            Classification                  Authority

AK              general veg. pas                Viereck & Dyress 1980
AK: interior    postfire forest cts             Foote 1983
nw AK           forest veg. cts                 Hanson 1953
CO              forest hts                      Arno & Presby 1977
CO              hts                             Powell 1988
w CO            riparian veg. cts               Baker 1989a
nw CO           general veg. pas                Baker & Kennedy 1985
CO: Arapaho &   forest hts                      Hess & Alexander 1986   
 Roosevelt NF    
CO: Gunnison &  forest hts                      Komarkova & others 1988
 Uncompahgre NF                                 
c ID            riparian cts, hts               Tuhy & Jensen 1982
n ID            forest cts, hts                 Cooper & others 1991
e ID, w WY      forest hts                      Steele & others 1983
e ID, w WY      riparian cts                    Youngblood & others 1985
MT              riparian dts.                   Hansen & others 1988
MT              forest hts                      Pfister & others 1977
c,e MT          riparian veg. rst., cts, hts    Hansen & others 1989
nw MT           riparian cts                    Boggs & others 1990 
sw MT           riparian veg. rst, cts, hts     Hansen & others 1989
wc MT           wetland cts                     Pierce & Johnson 1986
UT: Uinta Mt.   forest hts                      Henderson & other 1977
n UT            forest hts                      Mauk & Henderson 1984
UT, se ID       riparian cts                    Padgett & others 1989
WY              riparian veg. rst               Olson & Gerhart 1982
WY: c YELL      riparian hts                    Mattson 1984

PQ: Saint       general veg. pas                Darsereau 1957 
Lawrence Valley    
Yukon           veg. types                      Stanek & others 1981

Related categories for Species: Calamagrostis canadensis | Bluejoint Reedgrass