DISTRIBUTION AND OCCURRENCE
SPECIES: Leymus salinus | Salina Wildrye 



GENERAL DISTRIBUTION : 
Salina wildrye is essentially a species of the upper Colorado River
Basin.  Although occuring primarily throughout the Wasatch Plateau and
into western Colorado, this bunchgrass extends from southwestern Wyoming
south to northern Arizona and New Mexico [4].  It is also reported from
scattered locations in southern California, Nevada, and Idaho [2].

Distributions of the three subspecies as described by Barkworth and
Atkins [4] are as follows:
	
	Leymus salinus spp. salinus - central Wasatch Plateau and western
		Colorado
	Leymus salinus spp. salmonis - mountains of western Utah and in Nevada;
		north to Custer County, Idaho
	Leymus salinus spp. mojavensis - scattered locations in the New York,
		Providence and Clark Mountains in southern California and on
		the south rim of the Grand Canyon


ECOSYSTEMS : 
   FRES21  Ponderosa pine
   FRES23  Fir - spruce
   FRES28  Western hardwoods
   FRES29  Sagebrush
   FRES30  Desert shrub
   FRES34  Chaparral - mountain shrub
   FRES35  Pinyon - juniper
   FRES36  Mountain grasslands


STATES : 
     AZ  CA  CO  ID  NV  NM  UT  WY


ADMINISTRATIVE UNITS : 
     ARCH  CANY  COLM  DEVA  GLCA  MEVE
     NABR


BLM PHYSIOGRAPHIC REGIONS : 
    5  Columbia Plateau
    6  Upper Basin and Range
    7  Lower Basin and Range
    8  Northern Rocky Mountains
   10  Wyoming Basin
   12  Colorado Plateau


KUCHLER PLANT ASSOCIATIONS : 
   K11  Western ponderosa forest
   K15  Western spruce - fir forest
   K23  Juniper - pinyon woodland
   K37  Mountain mahogany - oak scrub
   K38  Great Basin sagebrush
   K40  Saltbush - greasewood
   K46  Desert - vegetation largely lacking
   K51  Wheatgrass - bluegrass
   K55  Sagebrush steppe


SAF COVER TYPES : 
   210  Interior Douglas-fir
   217  Aspen
   237  Interior ponderosa pine
   239  Pinyon - juniper


SRM (RANGELAND) COVER TYPES : 
NO-ENTRY


HABITAT TYPES AND PLANT COMMUNITIES : 
Although not a common species throughout its range, Salina wildrye has been
utilized as a climax indicator on xeric shrubland communities in Colorado.
Baker and Kennedy [3] described the following two plant associations:

	shadscale/Salina wildrye (Atriplex confertifolia/Leymus salinus)
	saltsage/Salina wildrye (Atriplex gardneri/Leymus salinus)

Commonly associated species not previously mentioned include Douglas-fir
(Pseudotsuga menziesii), pondersoa pine (Pinus ponderosa), greasewood
(Sarcobatus vermiculatus), basin big sagebrush (Artemisia tridentata
ssp. wyomingensis), winterfat (Krascheninnikovia lanata), Stansbury
cliffrose (Pushia mexicana var. stansburiana), Sandberg bluegrass (Poa
secunda), and Indian ricegrass (Oryzopsis hymenoides).

Related categories for Species: Leymus salinus | Salina Wildrye