DISTRIBUTION AND OCCURRENCE
SPECIES: Leucopoa kingii | Spike Fescue 



GENERAL DISTRIBUTION : 
Spike fescue grows from southeastern Oregon to southern California
eastward to Montana and Wyoming, and southward to South Dakota,
Nebraska, and Colorado [5].  It occurs in the Basin Ranges of Nevada and
adjacent parts of California, and in the San Bernardino Mountains of
southern California [5].


ECOSYSTEMS : 
   FRES20  Douglas-fir
   FRES21  Ponderosa pine
   FRES23  Fir - spruce
   FRES29  Sagebrush
   FRES34  Chaparral - mountain shrub
   FRES35  Pinyon - juniper
   FRES36  Mountain grasslands
   FRES38  Plains grasslands


STATES : 
     CA  CO  ID  MT  NE  NV  OR  SD  UT  WY


ADMINISTRATIVE UNITS : 
     BIHO  BICA  CRMO  DINO  FOBU  GLAC
     GRTE  ROMO  TICA  WICA  YELL


BLM PHYSIOGRAPHIC REGIONS : 
    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
   15  Black Hills Uplift
   16  Upper Missouri Basin and Broken Lands


KUCHLER PLANT ASSOCIATIONS : 
   K011  Western ponderosa pine
   K012  Douglas-fir forest
   K015  Western spruce - fir 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 
   K051  Wheatgrass - bluegrass
   K055  Sagebrush steppe
   K056  Wheatgrass - needlegrass shrubsteppe
   K063  Foothills prairie
   K064  Grama - needlegrass - wheatgrass
         Disturbed areas 


SAF COVER TYPES : 
   206  Engelmann spruce - subalpine fir
   210  Interior Douglas-fir
   237  Interior ponderosa pine
   239  Pinyon - juniper
   244  Pacific ponderosa pine - Douglas-fir


SRM (RANGELAND) COVER TYPES : 
NO-ENTRY


HABITAT TYPES AND PLANT COMMUNITIES : 
Spike fescue is a climax indicator in a number of sagebrush-grassland
and drier forested habitat types and plant communities.  It occurs with
limber pine (Pinus flexilis), ponderosa pine (P.  ponderosa), mountain
big sagebrush (Artemisia tridentata ssp. vaseyana), curlleaf
mountain-mahogany (Cercocarpus ledifolius), bluebunch wheatgrass
(Pseudoroegneria spicata), and prairie junegrass (Koeleria macrantha).

Publications listing spike fescue as an indicator or dominant species in
vegetation or habitat types are presented below.

Forest vegetation of the Medicine Bow National Forest in southeastern
   Wyoming: a habitat types classification [1]
Forest vegetation of the Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests in
   central Colorado: a habitat type classification [11]
Forest vegetation of the Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests in
   central Colorado: a habitat type classification [11]
Key to the forested plant associations of northern Colorado and southern
   Wyoming [15]
Coniferous forest habitat types of northern Utah [18]
A preliminary classification of high-elevation sagebrush-grass vegetation
   in northern and central Nevada [20]
Forest habitat types of eastern Idaho-western Wyoming [23]
Forest habitat types of central Idaho [24]
Plant associations (habitat types) of Region 2, 3rd ed. [25]
Forest habitat types on the Medicine Bow National Forest [27].

Related categories for Species: Leucopoa kingii | Spike Fescue