DISTRIBUTION AND OCCURRENCE
SPECIES: Eragrostis intermedia | Plains Lovegrass 



GENERAL DISTRIBUTION : 
Plains lovegrass occurs from Florida and Georgia west to Arizona
[19,49].  It extends north into Missouri and eastern Kansas [24,25] and
south through Mexico to Costa Rica [25,29,31].


ECOSYSTEMS : 
   FRES12  Longleaf - slash pine
   FRES15  Oak - hickory
   FRES30  Desert shrub
   FRES32  Texas savanna
   FRES33  Southwestern shrubsteppe
   FRES34  Chaparral - mountain shrub
   FRES35  Pinyon - juniper
   FRES38  Plains grasslands
   FRES40  Desert grasslands


STATES : 
     AL  AZ  AR  FL  GA  HI  KS  LA  MS  MO
     NM  OK  TX  MEXICO


ADMINISTRATIVE UNITS : 
     AMIS  CACA  CORO  FOBO  GWCA  GUMO
     NATR  ORPI  SAGU


BLM PHYSIOGRAPHIC REGIONS : 
    7  Lower Basin and Range
   12  Colorado Plateau
   13  Rocky Mountain Piedmont
   14  Great Plains


KUCHLER PLANT ASSOCIATIONS : 
   K023  Juniper - pinyon woodland
   K027  Mesquite bosque
   K031  Oak - juniper woodlands
   K044  Creosotebush - tarbush
   K054  Grama - tobosa prairie
   K058  Grama - tobosa shrubsteppe
   K059  Trans-Pecos shrub savanna
   K060  Mesquite savanna
   K069  Bluestem - grama prairie
   K082  Mosaic of K074 and K100
   K085  Mesquite - buffalograss
   K100  Oak - hickory forest
   K112  Southern mixed forest


SAF COVER TYPES : 
    40  Post oak - blackjack oak
    68  Mesquite
    83  Longleaf pine - slash pine
   239  Pinyon - juniper
   241  Western live oak
   242  Mesquite


SRM (RANGELAND) COVER TYPES : 
NO-ENTRY


HABITAT TYPES AND PLANT COMMUNITIES : 

Plains lovegrass associates in south-central Arizona desert grasslands
include sideoats grama (Bouteloua curtipendula), sprucetop grama (B.
chondrosioides) and other gramas (Bouteloua spp.), threeawns (Aristida
spp.), muhlys (Muhlenbergia spp.), green sprangletop (Leptochloa dubia),
Arizona cottontop (Digitaria californica), wolftail (Lycurus phleoides),
velvet-pod mimosa (Mimosa dysocarpa), ocotillo (Fouquieria splendens),
Wheeler sotol (Dasylirion wheeleri), sacahuista (Nolina microcarpa),
false-mesquite (Calliandra eriophylla), and larchleaf goldenweed
(Aplopappus laricifolius) [14,15,34,37,47,48].

Associates in interior chaparral of Arizona include shrub live oak
(Quercus turbinella), desert ceanothus (Ceanothus greggii), deerbrush
(Ceanothus integerrimus), pointleaf manzanita (Arctostaphylos pungens),
Pringle manzanita (A. pringlei), silktassels (Garrya spp.), and
Stansbury cliffrose (Purshia mexicana var.  stansburiana) [38,43].

Associates of plains lovegrass in the mixed-grass and shortgrass prairie
of the Southwest include buffalograss (Buchloe dactyloides), Indian
ricegrass (Oryzopsis hymenoides), galleta (Hilaria jamesii), prairie
junegrass (Koeleria macrantha), vine-mesquite (Panicum obtusum), alkali
sacaton (Sporobolus airoides), fourwing saltbush (Atriplex canescens),
sagebrush (Artemisia spp.), winterfat (Kraschennikovia lanata), soapweed
yucca (Yucca glauca), and broom snakeweed (Gutierrezia sarothrae) [12].

Related categories for Species: Eragrostis intermedia | Plains Lovegrass