DISTRIBUTION AND OCCURRENCE
SPECIES: Scirpus validus | Soft-Stem Bulrush 



GENERAL DISTRIBUTION : 
Soft-stem bulrush occurs throughout North America from central Alaska
south to Mexico, east to the Maritime Provinces of Canada, and south
through Florida.  It does not occur through central and southern
California [8].  It is native on the Hawaiian islands of Niihau, Oahu,
Molokai, and Hawaii [34].


ECOSYSTEMS : 
   FRES17  Elm - ash - cottonwood
   FRES28  Western hardwoods
   FRES36  Mountain grasslands
   FRES37  Mountain meadows
   FRES39  Prairie
   FRES41  Wet grasslands


STATES : 
     AL  AK  AZ  AR  CA  CO  CT  DE  FL  GA
     HI  ID  IL  IN  IA  KS  KY  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  WA  WV  WI  WY
     AB  BC  MB  NB  NF  NT  NS  ON  PE  PQ
     SK  YT  MEXICO


ADMINISTRATIVE UNITS : 
     AGFO  ARCH  BICY  BICA  CACO  CARE
     COLO  CODA  CUVA  DEWA  EFMO  EVER
     FIIS  GWCA  GWMP  GLCA  GRKO  GRSM
     HALE  INDU  ISRO  JODA  LAMR  MEVE
     MOCA  NERI  NOCA  OLYM  OZAR  PIRO
     PIPE  ROCR  THRO  VAFO  VOYA  WICA
     ZION


BLM PHYSIOGRAPHIC REGIONS : 
    1  Northern Pacific Border
    2  Cascade Mountains
    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 : 
   K025  Alder - ash forest
   K049  Tule marshes
   K063  Foothills prairie
   K072  Sea oats prairie
   K073  Northern cordgrass prairie
   K075  Nebraska Sandhills prairie
   K078  Southern cordgrass prairie
   K080  Marl - everglades
   K092  Everglades
   K098  Northern floodplain forest


SAF COVER TYPES : 
    63  Cottonwood
   235  Cottonwood - willow


SRM (RANGELAND) COVER TYPES : 
NO-ENTRY


HABITAT TYPES AND PLANT COMMUNITIES : 
Soft-stem bulrush is a dominant in the following classification type:

Landscape classification and plant successional trends in the
   Peace-Athabasca Delta [7]

Some species associated with soft-stem bulrush are smartweed (Polygonum
spp.), sedge (Carex spp.), common cattail, reed (Phragmites spp.), water
hemlock (Circuta maculata), spikerush (Eleocharis calva), fowl
mannagrass (Glyceria striata), tufted hairgrass (Deschampsia
caespitosa), beggartick (Bidens spp.), narrowlieaf burreed (Sparganium
eurycarpum), common arrowhead (Sagittaria latifolia), sego pondweed
(Potamogeton pectinatus), and nodding waternymph (Najas flexilis)
[4,6,19].

Related categories for Species: Scirpus validus | Soft-Stem Bulrush