DISTRIBUTION AND OCCURRENCE
SPECIES: Phragmites australis | Common Reed 



GENERAL DISTRIBUTION : 
Common reed has a nearly worldwide distribution.  It grows in North
America, South America, Europe, Africa, and Australia.  In North
America, its range extends from Nova Scotia to British Columbia
southward throughout most of the United States and Mexico.  It is absent
from some inland areas of the South Atlantic States [22,28,50].


ECOSYSTEMS : 
   FRES11  Spruce - fir
   FRES15  Oak - hickory
   FRES16  Oak - gum - cypress
   FRES17  Elm - ash - cottonwood
   FRES18  Maple - beech - birch
   FRES21  Ponderosa pine
   FRES28  Western hardwoods
   FRES29  Sagebrush
   FRES35  Pinyon - juniper
   FRES36  Mountain grasslands
   FRES38  Plains grasslands
   FRES39  Prairie
   FRES41  Wet grasslands


STATES : 
     AL  AZ  AR  CA  CO  CT  DE  FL  GA  ID
     IL  IN  IA  KS  LA  ME  MD  MA  MI  MN
     MS  MO  MT  NE  NV  NH  NJ  NM  NY  NC
     ND  OH  OK  OR  PA  RI  SC  SD  TN  TX
     UT  VT  VA  WV  WA  WI  WY  AB  BC  MB
     NB  NF  NS  ON  PQ  SK  MEXICO


ADMINISTRATIVE UNITS : 
     AMIS  APIS  ARCH  ASIS  BADL  BIBE
     BICY  BICA  CACH  CANY  CACO  CAHA
     CARE  CHCU  COLM  CUVA  DEVA  DEWA
     DINO  EVER  FIIS  GATE  GLCA  GRTE
     GUIS  INDU  ISRO  JELA  JOTR  LAME
     LAMR  MEVE  NABR  NERI  OLYM  ORPI
     PEFO  RICH  SAMO  SLBE  VAFO  WUPA
     ZION


BLM PHYSIOGRAPHIC REGIONS : 
    1  Northern Pacific Border
    2  Cascade Mountains
    3  Southern Pacific Border
    4  Sierra Mountains
    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
   15  Black Hills Uplift
   16  Upper Missouri Basin and Broken Lands


KUCHLER PLANT ASSOCIATIONS : 
   K011  Western ponderosa forest
   K016  Eastern ponderosa forest
   K017  Black Hills pine forest
   K023  Juniper - pinyon woodland
   K037  Mountain-mahogany - oak scrub
   K038  Great Basin sagebrush
   K039  Blackbrush
   K040  Saltbush - greasewood
   K041  Creosotebush
   K049  Tule marshes
   K051  Wheatgrass - bluegrass
   K055  Sagebrush steppe
   K056  Wheatgrass - needlegrass shrubsteppe
   K057  Galleta - three-awn shrubsteppe
   K063  Foothills prairie
   K064  Grama - needlegrass - wheatgrass
   K065  Grama - buffalograss
   K066  Wheatgrass - needlegrass
   K067  Wheatgrass - bluestem - needlegrass
   K070  Sandsage - bluestem prairie
   K074  Bluestem prairie
   K078  Southern cordgrass prairie
   K080  Marl - everglades
   K081  Oak savanna
   K092  Evergaldes
   K094  Conifer bog
   K096  Northeastern spruce - fir forest
   K098  Northern floodplain forest
   K099  Maple - basswood forest
   K100  Oak - hickory forest
   K106  Northern hordwoods
   K113  Southern floodplain forest


SAF COVER TYPES : 
     5  Balsam fir
    13  Black spruce - tamarack
    25  Sugar maple - beech - yellow birch
    26  Sugar maple - basswood
    33  Red spruce - balsam fir
    38  Tamarack
    42  Bur oak
    97  Atlantic white-cedar
   101  Baldcypress
   102  Baldcypress - tupelo
   235  Cottonwood - willow
   237  Interior ponderosa pine
   239  Pinyon - juniper


SRM (RANGELAND) COVER TYPES : 
NO-ENTRY


HABITAT TYPES AND PLANT COMMUNITIES : 
Thoughout most of its range, common reed typically forms closed,
monodominant stands along marsh and slough edges [3,16,31].  These
stands are often dense, with up to 19 stems (live and dead) per square
foot (200/sq m) [5].  In coastal marshes of the southeastern United
States, common reed often codominates with big cordgrass (Spartina
cynosuroides) along the upland edge of the marsh [28,34].

Publications describing common reed dominated communities are listed
below:

Plant ecology of spring-fed salt marshes in western Utah [3].
Riparian dominance types of Montana [16].
Plant associations of Region Two [23].
A preliminary classification of the natural vegetation of Colorado [1].
Plant communities in the marshlands of southeastern Louisiana [34].
Vegetation of a prairie marsh [31].
The vegetation of the Canadian prairie provinces III. Aquatic and
 semiaquatic vegetation  [29].
The vegetation of the Canadian prairie provinces III. Aquatic and
 semiaquatic vegetation, Part 2. Freshwater marshes and bogs [30].

Related categories for Species: Phragmites australis | Common Reed