• GENERAL DISTRIBUTION
• ECOSYSTEMS
• STATES
• BLM PHYSIOGRAPHIC REGIONS
• KUCHLER PLANT ASSOCIATIONS
• SAF COVER TYPES
• SRM (RANGELAND) COVER TYPES
• HABITAT TYPES AND PLANT COMMUNITIES

GENERAL DISTRIBUTION:

Mat muhly occurs from southern Yukon east to New Brunswick and Maine and south to Ohio, Nebraska, California, and Baja California. [25,30].

ECOSYSTEMS:

FRES11  Spruce-fir
FRES17  Elm-ash-cottonwood
FRES21  Ponderosa pine
FRES26  Lodgepole pine
FRES29  Sagebrush
FRES30  Desert shrub
FRES34  Chaparral-mountain shrub
FRES35  Pinyon-juniper
FRES36  Mountain grasslands
FRES37  Mountain meadows
FRES38  Plains grasslands
FRES39  Prairie
FRES40  Desert grasslands

STATES:

AK  AZ  CA  CO  ID  ME  MI  MN  MT  NE
NV  NM  ND  OR  SD  UT  WA  WI  WY 

AB  BC  MB  NB  ON  PQ  SK  YT 

MEXICO

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
14  Great Plains
16  Upper Missouri Basin and Broken Lands

KUCHLER PLANT ASSOCIATIONS:

K008  Lodgepole pine-subalpine forest
K011  Western ponderosa forest
K016  Eastern ponderosa forest
K018  Pine-Douglas-fir forest
K019  Arizona pine forest
K023  Juniper-pinyon woodland
K024  Juniper steppe
K037  Mountain-mahogany-oak scrub
K039  Blackbrush
K041  Creosotebush
K053  Grama-galleta steppe
K055  Sagebrush steppe
K056  Wheatgrass-needlegrass shrubsteppe
K057  Galleta-threeawn shrubsteppe
K063  Foothills prairie
K064  Grama-needlegrass-wheatgrass
K065  Grama-buffalograss
K066  Wheatgrass-needlegrass
K067  Wheatgrass-bluestem-needlegrass
K074  Bluestem prairie
K098  Northern floodplain forest

SAF COVER TYPES:

206  Engelmann spruce-subalpine fir
217  Aspen
218  Lodgepole pine
219  Limber pine
220  Rocky Mountain juniper
237  Interior ponderosa pine
238  Western juniper
239  Pinyon-juniper
244  Pacific ponderosa pine-Douglas-fir
247  Jeffery pine

SRM (RANGELAND) COVER TYPES:

104  Antelope bitterbrush-bluebunch wheatgrass
105  Antelope bitterbrush-Idaho fescue
107  Western juniper/big sagebrush/bluebunch wheatgrass
109  Ponderosa pine shrubland
110  Ponderosa pine-grassland
210  Bitterbrush
211  Creosote bush scrub
212  Blackbrush
216  Montane meadows
301  Bluebunch wheatgrass-blue grama
313  Tufted hairgrass-sedge
314  Big sagebrush-bluebunch wheatgrass
315  Big sagebrush-Idaho fescue
316  Big sagebrush-rough fescue
317  Bitterbrush-bluebunch wheatgrass
322  Curlleaf mountain-mahogany-bluebunch wheatgrass
401  Basin big sagebrush
402  Mountain big sagebrush
403  Wyoming big sagebrush
408  Other sagebrush types
409  Tall forb
411  Aspen woodland
412  Juniper-pinyon woodland
602  Bluestem-praire sandreed
607  Wheatgrass-needlegrass
612  Sagebrush-grass
613  Fescue grassland
704  Blue grama-western wheatgrass
714  Grama-bluestem
908  Fescue

HABITAT TYPES AND PLANT COMMUNITIES:

Mat muhly typically grows in dry meadows and open flatlands associated with ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa), lodgepole pine (P. contorta), and fir (Abies spp.)-spruce (Picea spp.) zones. It occasionally spreads down into sagebrush (Artemisia spp.) flatlands [37,40]. In upland meadows mat muhly is commonly associated with needlegrass (Stipa spp.), bluegrass (Poa spp.), and mountain muhly (Muhlenbergia montana) [40]. In the Midwest mat muhly's associates include shrubby cinquefoil (Potentilla fruticosa), purple pitcherplant (Sarracenia purpurea), low nutrush (Scleria verticillata), and marsh arrowgrass (Triglochin palustris) [17]. Mat muhly's associates in pinyon-juniper woodlands include predominantly singleleaf pinyon (Pinus monophylla) and Utah juniper (Juniperus osteosperma) with an understory of big sagebrush (Artemisia tridentata) and desert bitterbrush (Purshia glandulosa)[6]. In the Sierra Nevada common associates include western yarrow (Achillea lanulosa), northwest cinquefoil (Potentilla gracilis), sedge (Carex spp.), rush (Juncus spp.), and bluegrass (Poa spp.) [7]. In alpine areas of the Sierra Nevada, mat muhly is associated with needlegrass (Stipa spp.) and wax currant (Ribes cereum), where it is found with the krummholz form of whitebark pine (Pinus albicaulis) [31]. In plains grassland communities mat muhly commonly occurs with manyflowered aster (Aster pansus), purple milkvetch (Astragalus goniatus), Kentucky bluegrass (Poa pratensis), and slenderstem peavine (Lathyrus palustris) [13].

Mat muhly is described as a dominant or an indicator species in the following community type classifications:

Classification and dynamics of subalpine meadow ecosystems in the southern Sierra Nevada [4]
Habitat characteristics of the Silver Lake mule deer range [11]
Vegetation of saline areas in Saskatchewan [13]
Natural vegetation of Oregon and Washington [19]
Plant communities and soils of an eastern South Dakota prairie [36]

Related categories for SPECIES: Muhlenbergia richardsonis | Mat Muhly