DISTRIBUTION AND OCCURRENCE
SPECIES: Poa secunda | Sandberg Bluegrass 



GENERAL DISTRIBUTION : 
Sandberg bluegrass occurs from southeastern Alaska across southern
Canada (although sporadically east of the Rocky Mountains), throughout
the western and Great Plains states to Arkansas and the Great Lakes
region.  It occurs infrequently in New Mexico and Arizona [29,33,58,59].
Disjunct populations occur on the Gaspe Peninsula of Quebec and in Chile
[41].


ECOSYSTEMS : 
   FRES10  White-red-jack pine
   FRES15  Oak - hickory
   FRES17  Elm-ash-cottonwood
   FRES20  Douglas-fir
   FRES21  Ponderosa pine
   FRES23  Fir - spruce
   FRES26  Lodgepole pine
   FRES28  Western hardwoods
   FRES29  Sagebrush
   FRES30  Desert shrub
   FRES33  Southwestern shrubsteppe
   FRES34  Chaparral - mountain shrub
   FRES35  Pinyon - juniper
   FRES36  Mountain grasslands
   FRES37  Mountain meadows
   FRES38  Plains grasslands
   FRES39  Prairie
   FRES40  Desert grasslands
   FRES41  Wet grasslands
   FRES42  Annual grasslands
   FRES44  Alpine


STATES : 
     AK  AR  AZ  CA  CO  HI  ID  KS  MI  MN
     MT  NE  NV  NM  ND  OK  OR  SD  TX  UT
     WA  WI  WY  AB  BC  MB  ON  PQ  SK  YT


ADMINISTRATIVE UNITS : 
     BADL  BICA  BLCA  BRCA  CEBR  CHIS
     COLO  CRLA  CRMO  CURE  DEVA  DEPO
     DINO  FOUN  GLAC  GLCA  GOGA  HAFO
     ISRO  JODA  JOTR  LABE  LIBI  MEVE
     MORA  NABR  NEPE  NOCA  OLYM  REDW
     SAMO  SEKI  SCBL  WHSH  WICA  WRST
     YELL  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
   15  Black Hills Uplift
   16  Upper Missouri Basin and Broken Lands


KUCHLER PLANT ASSOCIATIONS : 
   K003  Silver fir-Douglas-fir forest
   K005  Mixed conifer forest
   K007  Red fir forest
   K008  Lodgepole pine-subalpine forest
   K009  Pine-cypress forest
   K010  Ponderosa shrub forest
   K011  Western ponderosa forest
   K020  Spruce-fir-Douglas-fir forest
   K022  Great Basin pine forest
   K024  Juniper steppe woodland
   K025  Alder-ash forest
   K026  Oregon oakwoods
   K028  Mosaic of K002 and K026
   K029  California mixed evergreen forest
   K030  California oakwoods
   K033  Chaparral
   K034  Montane chaparral
   K035  Coastal sagebrush
   K039  Blackbrush
   K047  Fescue-oatgrass
   K048  California steppe
   K050  Fescue-wheatgrass
   K051  Wheatgrass-bluegrass
   K065  Grama-buffalograss
   K066  Wheatgrass-needlegrass
   K067  Wheatgrass-bluestem-needlegrass
   K068  Wheatgrass-grama-buffalograss
   K095  Great Lakes pine forest


SAF COVER TYPES : 
     1  Jack pine
    42  Bur oak
    63  Cottonwood
   206  Engelmann spruce-subalpine fir
   207  Red fir
   208  Whitebark pine
   210  Interior Douglas-fir
   211  White fir
   213  Grand fir
   217  Aspen
   218  Lodgepole pine
   219  Limber pine
   220  Rocky Mountain juniper
   221  Red alder
   222  Black cottonwood-willow
   229  Pacific Douglas-fir
   233  Oregon white oak
   234  Douglas-fir-tanoak-Pacific madrone
   235  Cottonwood-willow
   236  Bur oak
   237  Interior ponderosa pine
   238  Western juniper
   239  Pinyon-juniper
   243  Sierra Nevada mixed conifer
   244  Pacific ponderosa pine-Douglas-fir
   245  Pacific ponderosa pine
   246  California black oak
   247  Jeffrey pine
   248  Knobcone pine
   249  Canyon live oak
   250  Blue oak-foothills pine
   255  California coast live oak
   256  California mixed subalpine


SRM (RANGELAND) COVER TYPES : 
   101  Bluebunch wheatgrass
   102  Idaho fescue
   103  Green fescue
   104  Antelope bitterbrush-bluebunch wheatgrass
   105  Antelope bitterbrush-Idaho fescue
   106  Bluegrass scabland
   107  Western juniper/big sagebrush/bluebunch wheatgrass
   108  Alpine Idaho fescue
   109  Ponderosa pine shrubland
   110  Ponderosa pine-grassland
   201  Blue oak woodland
   202  Coast live oak woodland
   203  Riparian woodland
   204  North coastal shrub
   205  Coastal sage shrub
   206  Chamise chaparral
   207  Scrub oak mixed chaparral
   208  Ceanothus mixed chaparral
   209  Montane shrubland
   210  Bitterbrush
   212  Blackbush
   213  Alpine grassland
   214  Coastal prairie
   215  Valley grassland
   216  Montane meadows
   217  Wetlands
   301  Bluebunch wheatgrass-blue grama
   302  Bluebunch wheatgrass-Sandberg bluegrass
   303  Bluebunch wheatgrass-western wheatgrass
   304  Idaho fescue-bluebunch wheatgrass
   305  Idaho fescue-Richardson needlegrass
   306  Idaho fescue-slender wheatgrass
   307  Idaho fescue-threadleaf sedge
   308  Idaho fescue-tufted hairgrass
   309  Idaho fescue-western wheatgrass
   311  Rough fescue-bluebunch wheatgrass
   312  Rough fescue-Idaho fescue
   314  Big sagebrush-bluebunch wheatgrass
   315  Big sagebrush-Idaho fescue
   317  Bitterbrush-bluebunch wheatgrass
   318  Bitterbrush-Idaho fescue
   319  Bitterbrush-rough fescue
   320  Black sagebrush-bluebunch wheatgrass
   321  Black sagebrush-Idaho fescue
   322  Curlleaf mountain-mahogany-bluebunch wheatgrass
   323  Shrubby cinquefoil-rough fescue
   324  Threetip sagebrush-Idaho fescue
   401  Basin big sagebrush
   402  Mountain big sagebrush
   403  Wyoming big sagebrush
   404  Threetip sagebrush
   405  Black sagebrush
   406  Low sagebrush
   408  Other sagebrush types
   409  Tall forb
   410  Alpine rangeland
   411  Aspen woodland
   412  Juniper-pinyon woodland
   413  Gambel oak
   414  Salt desert shrub
   415  Curlleaf mountain-mahogany
   416  True mountain-mahogany
   417  Littleleaf mountain-mahogany
   421  Chokecherry-serviceberry-rose
   422  Riparian
   501  Saltbush-greasewood
   502  Grama-galleta
   504  Juniper-pinyon pine woodland
   505  Grama-tobosa shrub
   601  Bluestem prairie
   607  Wheatgrass-needlegrass
   608  Wheatgrass-grama-needlegrass
   612  Sagebrush-grass
   613  Fescue grassland
   614  Crested wheatgrass
   615  Wheatgrass-saltgrass-grama
   715  Grama-buffalograss
   721  Sand bluestem-little bluestem (plains)
   722  Sand sagebrush-mixed prairie
   717  Little bluestem-Indiangrass-Texas wintergrass


HABITAT TYPES AND PLANT COMMUNITIES : 
Classifications listing Sandberg bluegrass as a dominant or indicator
species are listed below.

Vegetation and soils of the Cow Creek Watershed [7]
Vegetation and soils of the Coils Creek Watershed [8]
An ecological reconnaissance of the Artemisia steppe on the east central
   Owyhee uplands of Oregon [17]
Steppe vegetation of Washington [18]
Sagebrush-steppe habitat types in northern Colorado: a first
   approximation [24]
Natural vegetation of Oregon and Washington [26]
Plant communities of the Blue Mountains in eastern Oregon and
   southeastern Washington [31]
Sagebrush-grass habitat types of southern Idaho [34]
Plant associations of the Crooked River National Grassland [36]
Meeks Table Research Natural Area reference sampling and habitat
   classification [61]
Native vegetation of Idaho [64]

Related categories for Species: Poa secunda | Sandberg Bluegrass