DISTRIBUTION AND OCCURRENCE
SPECIES: Calamovilfa longifolia | Prairie Sandreed 



GENERAL DISTRIBUTION : 
Prairie sandreed occcurs from western Ontario to eastern Alberta and
south to northeastern New Mexico, Kansas, northern Indiana, and Michigan
[23,40,42,47].  Distribution of the two varieties is as follows:

var. longifolia - found on the drier prairies of the interior or plains
of the northern United States and Canada.  From southwestern Ontario
north and west to central Saskatchewan, Alberta, and southeastern
British Columbia south to western Wisconsin, northeastern Missouri,
southeastern Colorado, eastern Wyoming, and northern Idaho [24,43].

var. magna - grows most characteristically on dunes and sandy shores
around lakes Michigan and Huron.  There are also isolated outlying
stations occuring in northern Illinois, northwestern Indiana, and
southwestern Wisconsin [23,42,43].





ECOSYSTEMS : 
   FRES17  Elm - ash - cottonwood
   FRES18  Maple - beech - birch
   FRES19  Aspen - birch
   FRES21  Ponderosa pine
   FRES29  Sagebrush
   FRES38  Plains grasslands
   FRES39  Prairie


STATES : 
     CO  ID  IL  IN  IA  KS  MI  MN  MO  MT
     NE  NM  ND  SD  WI  WY  AB  BC  MB  ON
     SK


ADMINISTRATIVE UNITS : 
     AGFO  BADL  BICA  DETO  GRSA  INDU
     SCBL  SLBE  THRO  WICA


BLM PHYSIOGRAPHIC REGIONS : 
    8  Northern Pacific Border
    9  Middle Rocky Mountains
   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 : 
   K016  Eastern ponderosa forest
   K017  Black Hills pine forest
   K018  Pine - Douglas-fir forest
   K023  Juniper - pinyon woodland
   K037  Mountain mahogany - oak scrub
   K040  Saltbush - greasewood
   K056  Wheatgrass - needlegrass shrubsteppe
   K063  Foothills prairie
   K064  Grama - needlegrass - wheatgrass
   K065  Grama - buffalograss
   K066  Wheatgrass - needlegrass
   K067  Wheatgrass - bluestem - needlegrass
   K070  Sandsage - bluestem prairie
   K074  Bluestem prairie
   K075  Nebraska sandhills prairie
   K081  Oak savanna
   K082  Mosaic of K074 and K100
   K098  Northern floodplain forest
   K099  Maple - basswood forest
   K100  Oak - hickory forest
   K106  Northern hardwoods


SAF COVER TYPES : 
    42  Bur oak
    60  Beech - sugar maple
    63  Cottonwood
   217  Aspen
   237  Interior ponderosa pine


SRM (RANGELAND) COVER TYPES : 
NO-ENTRY


HABITAT TYPES AND PLANT COMMUNITIES : 
Prairie sandreed is a climax species indicative of sandy, well-drained
soils, usually on upland sites in mixed-grass or tallgrass prairie.  It
is a dominant in sandhills of the tallgrass prairie where it is commonly
found with needle-and-thread (Stipa comata), prairie junegrass (Koleria
cristata), sand bluestem (Andropogon gerardii var. paucipilus), sand
dropseed (Sporobolus cryptandrus), and sideoats grama (Bouteloua
curtipendula) [22,33,39,54].  Prairie sandreed is also listed as a
dominant understory species in cottonwood woodlands of the Little
Missouri National Grassland and in mountain-mohagany (Cercocarpus
montanus) shrublands of the Black Hills in South Dakota [25].

Published classifications listing prairie sandreed as a climax indicator
species are listed below:

Analysis of the grassland vegetation on selected key areas in
  southwestern North Dakota [53]
The habitat types of Region 2, U.S. Forest Service: a synthesis [51].
Plant associations of Region Two [27].
A preliminary classification of the natural vegetation of Colorado [4].
Preliminary classification of Wyoming plant communities [10].
The vegetation of the Grand River/Cedar River, Sioux, and Ashland
  Districts of the Custer National Forest: a habitat type classification
  [21].
Characteristics of major grassland types in western North Dakota [22].

Related categories for Species: Calamovilfa longifolia | Prairie Sandreed