DISTRIBUTION AND OCCURRENCE
SPECIES: Sorghastrum nutans | Indiangrass 



GENERAL DISTRIBUTION : 
Indiangrass is found from Quebec and Maine west to central Saskatchewan,
south to Arizona and northern Mexico, and east to Florida.  It is found
in all but 5 of the lower 48 states [50].


ECOSYSTEMS : 
   FRES12  Longleaf - slash pine
   FRES14  Oak - pine
   FRES15  Oak - hickory
   FRES17  Elm - ash - cottonwood
   FRES21  Ponderosa pine
   FRES29  Sagebrush
   FRES32  Texas savanna
   FRES34  Chaparral - mountain shrub
   FRES36  Mountain grasslands
   FRES38  Plains grasslands
   FRES39  Prairie


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


ADMINISTRATIVE UNITS : 
     BLRI  CACA  CUGA  CUVA  DEWA  EFMO
     GATE  GEWA  GLCA  GRSM  GUMO  INDU
     MACA  MANA  NATR  NERI  OBRI  OZAR
     PIPE  PRWI  SHEN


BLM PHYSIOGRAPHIC REGIONS : 
    7  Lower Basin and Range
   10  Wyoming Basin
   12  Colorado Plateau
   13  Rocky Mountain Piedmont
   14  Great Plains
   15  Black Hills Uplift
   16  Upper Missouri Basin and Broken Lands


KUCHLER PLANT ASSOCIATIONS : 
   K016  Eastern ponderosa forest
   K017  Black Hills pine forest
   K037  Mountain mahogany - oak scrub
   K051  Wheatgrass - bluegrass
   K056  Wheatgrass - needlegrass shrubsteppe
   K062  Mesquite - live oak savanna
   K063  Foothills prairie
   K064  Grama - needlegrass - wheatgrass
   K065  Grama - buffalograss
   K066  Wheatgrass - needlegrass
   K067  Wheatgrass - bluestem - needlegrass
   K069  Bluestem - grama prairie
   K070  Sandsage - bluestem prairie
   K074  Bluestem prairie
   K075  Nebraska sandhills prairie
   K076  Blackland prairie
   K081  Oak savanna
   K082  Mosaic of K074 and K100
   K084  Cross Timbers
   K086  Juniper - oak savanna
   K087  Mesquite - oak savanna
   K098  Northern floodplain forest
   K111  Oak - hickory - pine forest
   K112  Southern mixed forest


SAF COVER TYPES : 
    39  Black ash - American elm - red maple
    40  Post oak - blackjack oak
    42  Bur oak
    66  Ashe juniper - redberry (Pinchot) juniper
    68  Mesquite
    70  Longleaf pine
    71  Longleaf pine - scrub oak
    72  Southern scrub oak
    76  Shortleaf pine - oak
    83  Longleaf pine - slash pine
    94  Sycamore - sweetgum - American elm
   237  Interior ponderosa pine
   241  Western live oak


SRM (RANGELAND) COVER TYPES : 
NO-ENTRY


HABITAT TYPES AND PLANT COMMUNITIES : 
In the northern parts of the tallgrass prairie, indiangrass is not as
plentiful as big bluestem (Andropogon gerardii var. gerardii).  In
southern areas, it may comprise over 90 percent of a stand [13].
Indiangrass occurs as a dominant or subdominant in the following
classifications:

Remnant grassland vegetation and ecological affinities of the upper
   coastal prairie of Texas [18]        
Composition, classification and species response patterns of remnant
   tallgrass prairies in Texas [19]
Classification of native vegetation at the Woodworth Station, North
   Dakota [52]

Related categories for Species: Sorghastrum nutans | Indiangrass