DISTRIBUTION AND OCCURRENCE
SPECIES: Calamagrostis purpurascens | Purple Pinegrass 



GENERAL DISTRIBUTION : 
Purple pinegrass occurs from Greenland to Alaska, and south to
California in the Olympic and Cascade Mountains.  It also occurs east to
Quebec and south to Colorado through the Rocky Mountains
[12,14,17,18,23].


ECOSYSTEMS : 
   FRES20  Douglas-fir
   FRES21  Ponderosa pine
   FRES22  Western white pine
   FRES23  Fir - spruce
   FRES26  Lodgepole pine
   FRES36  Mountain grasslands
   FRES37  Mountain meadows
   FRES44  Alpine


STATES : 
     AK  CA  CO  ID  MN  MT  NV  OR  SD  UT
     WA  WY  AB  BC  MB  NF  NT  ON  PQ  SK
     YT


ADMINISTRATIVE UNITS : 
     BICA  DENA  FLFO  GLAC  GRTE  MORA
     NOCA  OLYM  ROMO  WRST  YELL  YUCH


BLM PHYSIOGRAPHIC REGIONS : 
   2  Cascade Mountains
   4  Sierra Mountains
   8  Northern Rocky Mountains
   9  Middle Rocky Mountains
   11 Southern Rocky Mountains
   13 Rocky Mountain Piedmont
   15 Black Hills Uplift


KUCHLER PLANT ASSOCIATIONS : 
   K008  Lodgepole pine - subalpine forest
   K015  Western spruce - fir forest 
   K017  Black Hills pine forest 
   K018  Pine - Douglas-fir forest
   K019  Arizona pine forest
   K020  Spruce - fir Douglas-fir forest
   K021  Southwestern spruce - fir forest
   K052  Alpine meadows and barren 


SAF COVER TYPES : 
   206  Engelmann spruce - subalpine fir
   208  Whitebark pine
   209  Bristlecone pine
   218  Lodgepole pine
   219  Limber pine
   256  California mixed subalpine


SRM (RANGELAND) COVER TYPES : 
NO-ENTRY


HABITAT TYPES AND PLANT COMMUNITIES : 
Purple pinegrass generally occurs as a dominant or codominant understory
species on exposed, high-elevation rocky ridgetops and upper slopes
[10,16,21,29].  Publications listing this grass as a dominant or
codominant in habitat types (hts), community types (cts), or vegetation
types (vts) are listed below:

Area                    Classification               Author

CO: Arapaho &           forest hts                   Hess & Alexander 1986
    Roosevelt NF
CO: Gunninson &         forest hts                   Komarkova 1986
    Umcompahgre NF 
Yukon                   vts                          Stanek 1980
WA & BC:North Cascades  cts                          Douglas & Bliss 1977

Related categories for Species: Calamagrostis purpurascens | Purple Pinegrass