DISTRIBUTION AND OCCURRENCE
SPECIES: Carex rostrata | Beaked Sedge 



GENERAL DISTRIBUTION : 
Beaked sedge habitat ranges from Alaska to Greenland south to Delaware
and west to Kansas, New Mexico, Arizona, and California [15,20,21,29].
Beaked sedge also occurs in Scandanavia, Iceland, and Eurasia
[19,21,23,26].


ECOSYSTEMS : 
   
   FRES10  White - red - jack pine
   FRES11  Spruce - fir
   FRES15  Oak - hickory
   FRES19  Aspen - birch
   FRES20  Douglas-fir
   FRES21  Ponderosa pine
   FRES23  Fir - spruce
   FRES26  Lodgepole pine
   FRES28  Western hardwoods
   FRES29  Sagebrush
   FRES34  Chaparral - mountain shrub
   FRES36  Mountain grasslands
   FRES37  Mountain meadows
   FRES38  Plains grasslands
   FRES39  Prairie
   FRES44  Alpine


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


ADMINISTRATIVE UNITS : 
     ACAD  APIS  BIHO  BICA  BRCA  CEBR
     CRLA  CUVA  DETO  DINO  FLFO  GLAC
     GRCA  GRTE  INDU  ISRO  LACL  LAVO
     MORA  OLYM  PIRO  PORE  ROMO  TICA
     VOYA  YELL  YUCH  ZION


BLM PHYSIOGRAPHIC REGIONS : 
    1  Northern Pacific Border
    2  Cascade Mountains
    4  Sierra Mountains
    5  Columbia Plateau
    6  Upper Basin and Range
    8  Northern Rocky Mountains
    9  Middle Rocky Mountains
   10  Wyoming Basin
   11  Southern Rocky Mountains
   12  Colorado Plateau
   16  Upper Missouri Basin and Broken Lands


KUCHLER PLANT ASSOCIATIONS : 
   K011  Western ponderosa forest
   K012  Douglas-fir forest
   K015  Western spruce - fir forest
   K018  Pine - Douglas-fir forest
   K021  Southwestern spruce - fir forest
   K022  Great Basin pine forest
   K025  Alder - ash forest
   K037  Mountain-mahogany - oak scrub
   K038  Great Basin sagebrush
   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 - needlegrass
   K074  Bluestem prairie
   K081  Oak savanna
   K094  Conifer bog
   K095  Great Lakes pine forest
   K098  Northern floodplain forest
   K108  Northern hardwoods - spruce forest


SAF COVER TYPES : 
     1  Jack pine
    12  Black spruce
    13  Black spruce - tamarack
    15  Red pine
    18  Paper birch
    21  Eastern white pine
    22  White pine - hemlock
   201  White spruce
   202  White spruce - paper birch
   203  Balsam poplar
   204  Black spruce
   206  Engelmann spruce - subalpine fir
   210  Interior Douglas-fir
   212  Western larch
   217  Aspen
   218  Lodgepole pine
   229  Pacific Douglas-fir
   235  Cottonwood - willow
   236  Bur oak
   237  Interior ponderosa pine
   244  Pacific ponderosa pine - Douglas-fir
   245  Pacific ponderosa pine
   251  White spruce - aspen
   252  Paper birch
   253  Black spruce - white spruce
   254  Black spruce -  paper birch


SRM (RANGELAND) COVER TYPES : 
NO-ENTRY


HABITAT TYPES AND PLANT COMMUNITIES : 
Beaked sedge is usually dominant or codominant where it occurs.  Beaked
sedge habitat is often low in species diversity and is monospecific for
long periods of time [6,16].

Beaked sedge is an indicator species of riparian habitats in the
following published classifications:

Riparian vegetation community types of Colorado [2].
Riparian vegetation community and habitat types of northwest Montana [5].
General vegetation community types of Athabasca-Peace Delta of Alberta, 
  Canada [8].
General vegetation communities of Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming [14].
Riparian vegetation community and habitat types of central and eastern
  Montana [16].
Riparian vegetation communities of Montana [17].
Riparian vegetation community and habitat types of southwest Montana [18].
Riparian communities of Deschutes, Ochoco, Fremont, and Winema National 
  Forests of Oregon [27].
Riparian community types of Nevada [31].
General vegetation communities of Alberta [34].
Riparian community types of southeast Idaho and Utah [36].
Wetland community types of west central Montana [37].
Riparian communities of central Idaho [41].
Riparian communities of east Idaho and west Wyoming [46].

Related categories for Species: Carex rostrata | Beaked Sedge