DISTRIBUTION AND OCCURRENCE
SPECIES: Muhlenbergia cuspidata | Plains Muhly 



GENERAL DISTRIBUTION : 
Plains muhly occurs in foothills and prairies from Alberta to Michigan
south to Kentucky, Oklahoma, and New Mexico [5,7,11].


ECOSYSTEMS : 
   FRES21  Ponderosa pine
   FRES29  Sagebrush
   FRES36  Mountain grasslands
   FRES38  Plains grasslands
   FRES39  Prairie


STATES : 
     CO  IL  IN  IA  KS  KY  MI  MN  MO  MT
     NE  NM  ND  OH  OK  SD  WI  WY  AB  MB
     ON  SK


ADMINISTRATIVE UNITS : 
     AGFO  BADL  DETO  MORU  PIPE  SCBL
     THRO  WICA


BLM PHYSIOGRAPHIC REGIONS : 
    5  Columbia Plateau
    7  Lower Basin and Range
    8  Northern Rocky Mountains
    9  Middle Rocky Mountains
   10  Wyoming Basin
   11  Southern Rocky Mountains
   13  Rocky Mountain Piedmont
   14  Great Plains
   15  Black Hills Uplift
   16  Upper Missouri Basin and Broken Lands


KUCHLER PLANT ASSOCIATIONS : 
   K016  Eastern ponderosa forest
   K017  Black Hills pine forest
   K056  Wheatgrass - needlegrass shrubsteppe
   K063  Foothills prairie
   K065  Grama - buffalograss
   K066  Wheatgrass - needlegrass
   K067  Wheatgrass - bluestem - needlegrass
   K070  Sandsage - bluestem prairie
   K074  Bluestem prairie
   K081  Oak savanna
   K098  Northern floodplain forest


SAF COVER TYPES : 
NO-ENTRY


SRM (RANGELAND) COVER TYPES : 
NO-ENTRY


HABITAT TYPES AND PLANT COMMUNITIES : 
Plains muhly is a component of foothill and prairie community vegetation
types.  Publications listing it as an indicator in vegetation
classification schemes are listed below:

Analysis of grassland vegetation on selected key areas in southwestern
  North Dakota. [22]
Ecology of mixed prairie in Canada. [3]
Range plant communities of the Central Grasslands Research Station in
  south central North Dakota. [12]

Related categories for Species: Muhlenbergia cuspidata | Plains Muhly