DISTRIBUTION AND OCCURRENCE
SPECIES: Festuca arundinacea | Tall Fescue 



GENERAL DISTRIBUTION : 
Tall fescue occurs throughout the continental United States
[4,28,31,75,77] and southern Canada [76].  It was introduced to North
America from northern Europe where it is native [31,61,65].  It has also
been introduced to South America [76], Australia [9,10,24], and New
Zealand [20.].


ECOSYSTEMS : 
   Tall fescue occurs in most ecosystems.


STATES : 
     AL  AK  AZ  AR  CA  CO  CT  DE  FL  GA
     HI  ID  IL  IN  IA  KS  KY  LA  ME  MD
     MA  MI  MN  MS  MO  MT  NE  NV  NH  NJ
     NM  NY  NC  ND  OH  OK  OR  PA  RI  SC
     SD  TN  TX  UT  VT  VA  WA  WV  WI  WY
     DC  AB  BC  MB  NB  NF  NS  ON  PE  PQ
     SK


ADMINISTRATIVE UNITS : 
     ASIS  DETO  MACA  MOSA  NOCA  OLYM
     PORE  REDW  ROCR  SAJH  SAMO  SHEN


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 : 
NO-ENTRY


SAF COVER TYPES : 
   Tall fescue occurs in most SAF Cover Types.


SRM (RANGELAND) COVER TYPES : 
   Tall fescue occurs in most SRM Cover Types.


HABITAT TYPES AND PLANT COMMUNITIES : 
Tall fescue is listed as a codominant in the following publication:

Plant associations within the interior valleys of the Umpqua River
  Basin, Oregon [64]

Tall fescue is found in tallgrass prairie [56], salt desert shrub, and
sagebrush (Artemisia spp.) [76].  It is also found in pine (Pinus
spp.)-Douglas-fir (Pseudotsuga mesziesii) forest, ponderosa pine (Pinus
ponderosa) forest, juniper (Juniperus spp.)-pinyon (Pinus spp.)
woodland, mountain mahogany (Cercocarpus spp.)-oak (Quercus spp.) scrub,
and saltbush (Atriplex spp.)-greasewood (Sarcobatus spp.) communities
[16].

Related categories for Species: Festuca arundinacea | Tall Fescue