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DISTRIBUTION AND OCCURRENCE
SPECIES: Hesperostipa comata
| Needle-And-Thread Grass
Needle-and-thread grass grows throughout the western and midwestern United States and Canada, from the Yukon to California, east to Ontario, Indiana, and Texas, and south into Mexico. There are outlying populations in Rhode Island and New York [79,122].
FRES20 Douglas-fir
FRES21 Ponderosa pine
FRES29 Sagebrush
FRES30 Desert shrub
FRES31 Chaparral-mountain shrub
FRES35 Pinyon-juniper
FRES36 Mountain grasslands
FRES38 Plains grasslands
FRES40 Desert grasslands
AZ CA CO ID IL
IN IA
KS MI MN MS MO MT NE
NV NM NY ND OK OR RI
SD TX UT WA WI WY
AB BC MB NT ON SK YK
MEXICO
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
10 Wyoming Basin
12 Colorado Plateau
13 Rocky Mountain Piedmont
14 Great Plains
15 Black Hills Uplift
16 Upper Missouri Basin and Broken Lands
K011 Western ponderosa forest
K016 Eastern ponderosa forest
K017 Black Hills pine forest
K018 Pine-Douglas-fir forest
K019 Arizona pine forest
K022 Great Basin pine forest
K023 Juniper-pinyon woodland
K024 Juniper steppe woodlands
K037 Mountain-mahogany-oak scrub
K038 Great Basin sagebrush
K040 Saltbush-greasewood
K051 Wheatgrass-bluegrass
K055 Sagebrush steppe
K056 Wheatgrass-needlegrass shrubsteppe
K057 Galleta-threeawn shrubsteppe
K063 Foothills prairie
K064 Grama-needlegrass-wheatgrass
K066 Wheatgrass-needlegrass
K067 Wheatgrass-bluestem-needlegrass
K068 Wheatgrass-grama-buffalograss
K070 Sandsage-bluestem prairie
K075 Nebraska Sandhills prairie
K086 Juniper-oak savanna
210 Interior Douglas-fir
220 Rocky Mountain juniper
237 Interior ponderosa pine
239 Pinyon-juniper
101 Bluebunch wheatgrass
105 Antelope bitterbrush-Idaho fescue
110 Ponderosa pine-grassland
210 Bitterbrush
301 Bluebunch wheatgrass-blue grama
302 Bluebunch wheatgrass-Sandberg bluegrass
303 Bluebunch wheatgrass-western wheatgrass
304 Idaho fescue-bluebunch wheatgrass
310 Needle-and-thread-blue grama
311 Rough fescue-bluebunch wheatgrass
314 Big sagebrush-bluebunch wheatgrass
317 Bitterbrush-bluebunch wheatgrass
320 Black sagebrush-bluebunch wheatgrass
322 Curlleaf mountain-mahogany-bluebunch wheatgrass
401 Basin big sagebrush
403 Wyoming big sagebrush
404 Threetip sagebrush
405 Black sagebrush
406 Low sagebrush
412 Juniper-pinyon woodland
413 Gambel oak
414 Salt desert shrub
415 Curlleaf mountain-mahogany
501 Saltbush-greasewood
602 Bluestem-prairie sandreed
603 Prairie sandreed-needlegrass
605 Sandsage prairie
606 Wheatgrass-bluestem-needlegrass
607 Wheatgrass-needlegrass
608 Wheatgrass-grama-needlegrass
609 Wheatgrass-grama
611 Blue grama-buffalograss
612 Sagebrush-grass
613 Fescue grassland
714 Grama-bluestem
720 Sand bluestem-little bluestem (dunes)
721 Sand bluestem-little bluestem (plains)
722 Sand sagebrush-mixed prairie
724 Sideoats grama-New Mexico feathergrass-winterfat
727 Mesquite-buffalograss
Needle-and-thread grass appears in many habitat types, including forested, grassland, and shrub-steppe communities.
In Utah, needle-and-thread grass occurs in the wheatgrass-bluegrass (Triticeae-Poa spp.) rangelands with bluebunch wheatgrass (Pseudoroegneria spicata), Sandberg bluegrass (Poa secunda), Cusick bluegrass (P. cusickii), Indian ricegrass (Achnatherum hymenoides), sand dropseed (Sporobolus cryptandrus), globemallow (Sphaeralcea spp.), balsamroot (Balsamorhiza spp.), yarrow (Achillea spp.), phlox (Phlox spp.), paintbrush (Castilleja spp.), and milkvetch (Astragalus spp.) [9].
Needle-and-thread grass also appears in the saltbush-greasewood (Atriplex spp.-Sarcobatus spp.) type in Utah with shadscale (Atriplex confertifolia), rabbitbrush (Chrysothamnus spp.), winterfat (Krascheninnikovia lanata), budsage (Artemisia spinescens), greenmolly (Kochia americana), spineless horsebrush (Tetradymia canescens), hopsage (Grayia spp.), Gardner's saltbush (Atriplex gardneri), Indian ricegrass, sand dropseed, galleta (Hilaria jamesii), greasewood, saltgrass (Distichlis spp.), alkali sacaton (Sporobolus airoides), seepweed (Suaeda spp.), and pickleweed (Allearolfea occidentalis) [9].
Other common associates of needle-and-thread grass include Utah juniper (Juniperus osteosperma), Colorado
pinyon (Pinus edulis), ponderosa pine (P. ponderosa), big sagebrush
(Artemisia tridentata), black sagebrush (A. nova), sand sagebrush (A.
filifolia), low sagebrush (A. arbuscula), silver sagebrush (A. cana),
threetip sagebrush (A. tripartita),
antelope bitterbrush (Purshia tridentata),
serviceberry (Amelanchier spp.),
Idaho fescue (Festuca
idahoensis), threadleaf sedge (Carex filifolia), mountain muhly
(Muhlenbergia montana), prairie junegrass (Koeleria macrantha), elk sedge
(Carex geyeri), big bluestem (Andropogon gerardii), and
prairie sandreed (Calamovilfa longifolia).
Vegetation typings in which needle-and-thread appears as a dominant include:
Vegetation and soils of the Rock Springs Watershed [14]
Vegetation and soils of the Duckwater Watershed [15]
Habitat types of the Curlew National Grassland, Idaho [29]
A reconsideration of grassland classification in the northern Great Plains of North America [33]
Forest vegetation of eastern Washington and northern Idaho [42]
Structure and ecology of coniferous forests of the northern Rocky Mountains [43]
Plant communities and habitat types in the Lava Beds National Monument, California [54]
The many faces of South Dakota rangelands: description and classification [63]
Selected habitat types of the Custer National Forest [72]
The vegetation of the Grand River/Cedar River, Sioux, and Ashland Districts of the Custer National Forest: a habitat
type classification [73]
The vegetation of Theodore Roosevelt National Park, North Dakota: a habitat type classification [74]
Characteristics of the Stipa comata-Bouteloua gracilis-Bouteloua curtipendula association in northern Colorado [76]
The vegetation of Alberta [99]
Aspen community types of the Intermountain Region [100]
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