DISTRIBUTION AND OCCURRENCE
SPECIES: Muhlenbergia montana | Mountain Muhly 



GENERAL DISTRIBUTION : 
Mountain muhly occurs from Montana and Wyoming to western Texas and
south through Mexico to Guatemala.  It extends west through Utah and
Arizona.  It is also found in northern and Sierra Nevadan California
[16,25,34,40,42,46].


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
   FRES40  Desert grasslands


STATES : 
     AZ  CA  CO  MT  NM  TX  UT  WY  MEXICO


ADMINISTRATIVE UNITS : 
     BAND  BRCA  CACA  CORO  DEPO  FLFO
     GRCA  GUMO  MEVE  ROMO  SEKI  SUCR
     WACA  ZION


BLM PHYSIOGRAPHIC REGIONS : 
    4  Sierra Mountains
    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
   16  Upper Missouri Basin and Broken Lands


KUCHLER PLANT ASSOCIATIONS : 
   K011  Western ponderosa forest
   K012  Douglas-fir forest
   K015  Western spruce - fir forest
   K016  Eastern ponderosa forest
   K018  Pine - Douglas-fir forest
   K019  Arizona pine forest 
   K020  Spruce - fir - Douglas-fir forest
   K021  Southwestern spruce - fir forest
   K023  Juniper - pinyon woodland
   K031  Oak - juniper woodlands
   K037  Mountain-mahogany - oak scrub
   K054  Grama - tobosa prairie
   K055  Sagebrush steppe
   K063  Foothills prairie
   K066  Wheatgrass - needlegrass


SAF COVER TYPES : 
   206  Engelmann spruce-subalpine fir
   210  Interior Douglas-fir
   220  Rocky Mountain juniper
   234  Douglas-fir-tanoak-Pacific madrone
   237  Interior ponderosa pine
   239  Pinyon-juniper
   243  Sierra Nevada mixed conifer
   244  Pacific ponderosa pine-Douglas-fir
   247  Jeffrey pine
   256  California mixed subalpine


SRM (RANGELAND) COVER TYPES : 
   209  Montane shrubland
   210  Bitterbrush
   314  Big sagebrush-bluebunch wheatgrass
   322  Curlleaf mountain-mahogany-bluebunch wheatgrass
   401  Basin big sagebrush
   403  Wyoming big sagebrush
   409  Tall forb
   412  Juniper-pinyon woodland
   413  Gambel oak
   415  Curlleaf mountain-mahogany
   416  True mountain-mahogany
   420  Snowbrush
   504  Juniper-pinyon pine woodland
   509  Transition between oak-juniper woodland and mahogany-oak association


HABITAT TYPES AND PLANT COMMUNITIES : 
Mountain muhly is an indicator or dominant species in the following
published classifications:

Classification of the forest vegetation of Colorado by habitat type
  and community type [2]  
Classification of the forest vegetation on the National Forests of
  Arizona and New Mexico [3]
Forest and woodland habitat types (plant associations) of Arizona south
  of the Mogollon Rim and southwestern New Mexico [7]
A classification of forest habitat types of northern New Mexico and 
  southern Colorado [22]
Forest habitat types in the Apache, Gila, and part of the Cibola
  National Forests, Arizona and New Mexico [28]
Forest vegetation of the Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests in
  central Colorado: a habitat type classification [39].
Forest vegetation of the Gunnison and parts of the Uncompahgre National
  Forests: a preliminary habitat type classification [48]
Forest and woodland habitat types (plant associations) of northern New
  Mexico and northern Arizona [51]
A forest habitat type classification of southern Arizona and its
  relationship to forests of the Sierra Madre Occidental of Mexico [59]
Coniferous forest habitat types of central and southern Utah [84]

Related categories for Species: Muhlenbergia montana | Mountain Muhly