DISTRIBUTION AND OCCURRENCE
SPECIES: Spartina pectinata | Prairie Cordgrass 



GENERAL DISTRIBUTION : 
Prairie cordgrass is found from Newfoundland and Quebec to eastern
Washington and Oregon, and south to North Carolina, Arkansas, Texas, New
Mexico, and Mexico [13,14].


ECOSYSTEMS : 
   FRES15  Oak - hickory
   FRES17  Elm - ash - cottonwood
   FRES21  Ponderosa pine
   FRES29  Sagebrush
   FRES35  Pinyon - juniper
   FRES36  Mountain grasslands
   FRES37  Mountain meadows
   FRES38  Plains grasslands
   FRES39  Prairie
   FRES41  Wet grasslands


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


ADMINISTRATIVE UNITS : 
     ACAD  BADL  BICA  CANY  CACO  CUVA
     DEWA  DETO  DINO  EFMO  GATE  INDU
     LAME  NERI  PIPE  SCBL  THRO  WICA
     YELL


BLM PHYSIOGRAPHIC REGIONS : 
    1  Northern Pacific Border
    5  Columbia Plateau
   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
   K023  Juniper - pinyon woodland
   K038  Great Basin sagebrush
   K039  Blackbrush
   K040  Saltbush - greasewood
   K049  Tule marshes
   K055  Sagebrush steppe
   K056  Wheatgrass - needlegrass shrubsteppe
   K057  Galleta - threeawn shrubsteppe
   K063  Foothills prairie
   K064  Grama - needlegrass - wheatgrass
   K065  Grama - buffalograss
   K066  Wheatgrass - needlegrass
   K070  Sandsage - bluestem prairie
   K081  Oak savanna
   K098  Northern floodplain forest


SAF COVER TYPES : 
    42  Bur oak
   242  Mesquite
   237  Interior ponderosa pine
   239  Pinyon juniper
   245  Pacific ponderosa pine


SRM (RANGELAND) COVER TYPES : 
NO-ENTRY


HABITAT TYPES AND PLANT COMMUNITIES : 
Prairie cordgrass is codominant with bluejoint reedgrass (Calamagrostis
canadensis) on wet prairies and alkaline fens in Indiana.  The wet
prairie is highly productive for agriculture, and remnants are uncommon
today.  Alkaline fens are more common on the eastern prairies of Ohio
and Indiana than on prairies to the west [3].

Published classifications listing prairie cordgrass occurs as a dominant
or subdominant are presented below:

Riparian dominance types of Montana [12]
Classification of native vegetation at the Woodworth Station, North
   Dakota [19]
Classification and environmental relationships of wetland vegetation in
   central Yellowstone Park, Wyoming [33]

Related categories for Species: Spartina pectinata | Prairie Cordgrass