DISTRIBUTION AND OCCURRENCE
SPECIES: Carex rossii | Ross' Sedge 



GENERAL DISTRIBUTION : 
Ross' sedge is a cordilleran species which occurs from Manitoba to
Alaska south to California, Arizona, and New Mexico, and east to
Minnesota [13,16,24,30].  East of the Rocky Mountains its occurrence is
irregular [19].  Ross' sedge occurs in isolated stands in South Dakota
and Michigan [19,24].


ECOSYSTEMS : 
   FRES20  Douglas-fir
   FRES21  Ponderosa pine
   FRES23  Fir - spruce
   FRES26  Lodgepole pine
   FRES28  Western hardwoods
   FRES29  Sagebrush
   FRES35  Pinyon - juniper
   FRES36  Mountain grasslands
   FRES38  Plains grasslands


STATES : 
     AK  AZ  CA  CO  ID  MI  MN  MT  NE  NV
     NM  OR  SD  UT  WA  WY  AB  BC  MB  SK
     YT


ADMINISTRATIVE UNITS : 
     BIHO  BRCA  CRLA  DEVA  DEPO  GLAC
     GRCA  GRTE  LAVO  LABE  MORA  OLYM
     ROMO  TICA  YELL  ZION


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
    8  Northern Rocky Mountains
    9  Middle Rocky Mountains
   11  Southern Rocky Mountains
   12  Colorado Plateau
   15  Black Hills Uplift
   16  Upper Missouri Basin and Broken Lands


KUCHLER PLANT ASSOCIATIONS : 
   K008  Lodgepole pine - subalpine forest
   K011  Western ponderosa forest
   K012  Douglas-fir forest
   K014  Grand fir - Douglas-fir forest
   K016  Eastern ponderosa forest
   K017  Black Hills pine forest
   K022  Great Basin pine forest
   K023  Juniper - pinyon woodland
   K029  California mixed evergreen forest
   K034  Montane chaparral
   K037  Mountain-mahogany - oak scrub
   K038  Great Basin sagebrush
   K050  Fescue - wheatgrass
   K051  Wheatgrass - bluegrass
   K055  Sagebrush steppe
   K056  Wheatgrass - needlegrass shrubsteppe
   K063  Foothills prairie
   K066  Wheatgrass - needlegrass
   K098  Northern floodplain forest


SAF COVER TYPES : 
   206  Engelmann spruce - subalpine fir
   210  Interior Douglas-fir
   213  Grand fir
   217  Aspen
   218  Lodgepole pine
   219  Limber pine
   220  Rocky Mountain juniper
   229  Pacific Douglas-fir
   237  Interior ponderosa pine
   238  Western juniper
   239  Pinyon - juniper
   243  Sierra Nevada mixed conifer
   244  Pacific ponderosa pine - Douglas-fir
   245  Pacific ponderosa pine
   246  California black oak
   247  Jeffrey pine
   248  Knobcone pine
   249  Canyon live oak
   250  Blue oak - Digger pine
   255  California coast live oak
   256  California mixed subalpine


SRM (RANGELAND) COVER TYPES : 
NO-ENTRY


HABITAT TYPES AND PLANT COMMUNITIES : 
Ross' sedge is dominant or codominant in xerophytic grasslands, open
timber stands, and exposed hillsides of montane and subalpine zones
[15,24,31].  It also occurs in forest understory but usually is not
dominant there [17,28].
 
Ross' sedge is listed as a plant associate in the following published
classifications:

Forest habitat types of Medecine Bow National Forest in Wyoming [1].
Forest and shrubland community types of Silver Lake in Oregon [8].
General vegetation community type of Blue Mountains in eastern
  Washington and southeast Oregon [14].
Forest habitat types of Roosevelt National Forest in Colorado [17].
General vegetation community types of coastal British Columbia [21].
Forest habitat types of northern Utah (Uintah Mountains) [27].
Lodgepole pine community types of Colorado [28].
Aspen community types of southern Utah and Nevada [29].
Forest habitats of eastern Idaho and western Wyoming [33].
Grand fir/blue huckleberry habitat types of central Idaho [34].
Grand fir/mountain maple habitat types of central Idaho [32].
Forest vegetation habitat of the Transverse and Peninsular Ranges of
  California [38].
Lodgepole pine community types and plant associations of the western
  United States [41].

Related categories for Species: Carex rossii | Ross' Sedge