DISTRIBUTION AND OCCURRENCE
SPECIES: Eleocharis palustris | Common Spikerush 



GENERAL DISTRIBUTION : 
Common spikerush is widely distributed across North America, from
Saskatchewan west to British Columbia, north into Alaska, Yukon
Territory, the Northwest Territories, south into parts of the Pacific
Northwest States to southern California, east across the Great Plains
into the southeastern states, and as far north as Minnesota and Illinois
[9,11,16,17,18].  Common spikerush's distribution in the East is not
well known because of difficulties in distinguishing it from E. smallii
(Britt.) [29].  It is native in Hawaii [39].


ECOSYSTEMS : 
   FRES11  Spruce - fir
   FRES19  Aspen - birch
   FRES28  Western hardwoods
   FRES29  Sagebrush
   FRES36  Mountain grasslands
   FRES38  Plains grasslands
   FRES39  Prairie
   FRES40  Desert grasslands
   FRES41  Wet grasslands
   FRES42  Annual grasslands
   FRES44  Alpine


STATES : 
     AL  AK  AZ  AR  CA  CO  DE  FL  GA  HI
     ID  IL  IA  KS  KY  LA  MD  MN  MO  MT
     NE  NV  NM  NC  ND  OK  OR  SC  SD  TN
     TX  UT  VA  WA  WV  WY  AB  BC  NT  ON
     SK  YT  MEXICO


ADMINISTRATIVE UNITS : 
     BITH  CACH  CARE  COLM  DEVA  DINO
     FLFO  JELA  JOTR  LAMR  MEVE  PORE
     ROMO  SAGU  SAMO  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
    7  Lower Basin and Range
    8  Northern Rocky Mountains
    9  Middle Rocky Mountains
   10  Wyoming Basin
   11  Southern Rocky Mountains
   12  Colorado Plateau
   13  Rocky Mountain Piedmont
   14  Great Plains
   15  Black Hills Uplift
   16  Upper Missouri Basin and Broken Lands


KUCHLER PLANT ASSOCIATIONS : 
   K011  Western ponderosa forest
   K012  Douglas-fir forest
   K015  Western spruce - fir forest
   K016  Eastern ponderosa forest
   K017  Black Hills pine forest
   K018  Pine - Douglas-fir forest
   K019  Arizona pine forest
   K021  Southwestern spruce - fir forest
   K023  Juniper - pinyon woodland
   K037  Mountain-mahogany - oak scrub
   K038  Great Basin sagebrush
   K039  Blackbrush
   K040  Saltbush - greasewood
   K041  Creosotebush
   K049  Tule marshes
   K051  Wheatgrass - bluegrass
   K052  Alpine meadows and barren
   K055  Sagebrush steppe
   K056  Wheatgrass - needlegrass shrubsteppe
   K057  Galleta - threeawn shrubsteppe
   K063  Foothills prairie
   K064  Grama - needlegrass - wheatgrass
   K065  Grama - buffalograss
   K066  Wheatgrass - needlegrass
   K067  Wheatgrass - bluestem - needlegrass
   K070  Sandsage - bluestem prairie
   K072  Sea oats prairie
   K073  Northern cordgrass prairie
   K074  Bluestem prairie
   K077  Bluestem - sacahuista prairie
   K078  Southern cordgrass prairie
   K081  Oak savanna
   K094  Conifer bog
   K096  Northeastern spruce - fir forest
   K097  Southeastern spruce - fir forest
   K098  Northern floodplain forest
   K106  Northern hardwoods


SAF COVER TYPES : 
   217  Aspen
   235  Cottonwood - willow


SRM (RANGELAND) COVER TYPES : 
NO-ENTRY


HABITAT TYPES AND PLANT COMMUNITIES : 
Common spikerush is named as a dominant spcies in the following
classifications: 

Classification and management of riparian and wetland sites in
  northwestern Montana [3]
Classification and management of riparian and wetland sites in central
  and eastern Montana [12]        
Riparian dominance types of Montana [13]
Classification and management of riparian sites in southwestern Montana [14]
Riparian zone associations: Dechutes, Ochoco, Fremont, and Winema
   National Forests [19]
Preliminary riparian community type classifcation for Nevada [22]

Associates of common spikerush include watercress (Nasturtium
officinale), monkey face (Mimulus guttatus), cattail (Typha spp.), sedge
(Carex spp.), bulrush (Scirpus spp.), rush (Juncus spp.), horsetail
(Equisetum spp.), western wheatgrass (Agropyron smithii), creeping
bentgrass (Agrostis stolonifera), tufted hairgrass (Deschampsia
cespitosa), foxtail barley (Critestion jubatum), water groundsel
(Senecia hydrophyllus), and willow (Salix spp.) [1,15,22,31].

Cross [6] reported common spikerush from southeastern Arizona growing in
association with yerbamansa (Anemopsis californica), Suksdorf dogbane
(Apocynum suksdorfii), and alkalai muhly (Muhlenbergia asperifolia).

Related categories for Species: Eleocharis palustris | Common Spikerush