DISTRIBUTION AND OCCURRENCE
SPECIES: Danthonia compressa | Mountain Oatgrass 



GENERAL DISTRIBUTION : 
Mountain oatgrass occurs in the eastern United States and southeastern
Canada.  It occurs from extreme southeastern Ontario east through
southern Quebec to Nova Scotia and south through New England and the
Appalachian Mountain region to northern Georgia.  In the southeastern
United States, mountain oatgrass is restricted to the Appalachian
Mountains [10,12,20].


ECOSYSTEMS : 
   FRES15  Oak - hickory


STATES : 
     CT  DE  GA  KY  ME  MD  MA  NH  NJ  NY
     NC  OH  PA  RI  SC  TN  VT  VA  WV  NB
     NS  ON  PQ


ADMINISTRATIVE UNITS : 
     ACAD  BLRI  CATO  DEWA  GRSM  NERI
     OBRI  SHEN


BLM PHYSIOGRAPHIC REGIONS : 
NO-ENTRY


KUCHLER PLANT ASSOCIATIONS : 
   K100  Oak - hickory forest
   K104  Appalachian oak forest


SAF COVER TYPES : 
NO-ENTRY


SRM (RANGELAND) COVER TYPES : 
NO-ENTRY


HABITAT TYPES AND PLANT COMMUNITIES : 
Mountain oatgrass occurs in forest openings, open woods, and mountain
meadows.

Mountain oatgrass is dominant in grassy balds of the southern
Appalachian Mountains.  Other herbaceous plants occurring in grassy
balds include redtop (Agrostis alba), timothy (Phleum pratense), Canada
bluegrass (Poa compressa), Kentucky bluegrass (P. pratense), red fescue
(Festuca rubra), five-fingers (Potentilla canadensis), and sheep sorrel
(Rumex acetosella) [4,18,26,27]

On the Allegheny Plateau in Pennsylvania, deciduous forests which failed
to regenerate after logging support a dense groundcover of mountain
oatgrass, rough goldenrod (Solidago rugosa), tall flat-topped white
aster (Aster umbellatus), and bracken fern (Pteridium aquilinum) [13].

Mountain oatgrass is listed as a dominant species in the following
publication:

Vegetation of the Great Smoky Mountains [27]

Related categories for Species: Danthonia compressa | Mountain Oatgrass