| | |
 |
|
| 
| ||
 |
|
|
|
 |
|
Wildlife, Animals, and Plants |
|
|||
|
DISTRIBUTION AND OCCURRENCE
GENERAL DISTRIBUTION:Alkali sacaton occurs in all western states in the U.S. It is distributed from Missouri, Arkansas, and North Dakota to eastern Washington and south to California and Texas. Isolated populations occur to the East. A U.S. distributional map for alkali sacaton is available on the PLANTS database [81]. In Canada alkali sacaton in southern British Columbia and Alberta [51,78,81]. In Mexico it is reported from as far south as Aguascalientes and San Luis Potosi [16].
ECOSYSTEMS [27]:FRES29 Sagebrush FRES30 Desert shrub FRES32 Texas savanna FRES33 Southwestern shrubsteppe FRES35 Pinyon-juniper FRES38 Plains grasslands FRES39 Prairie FRES40 Desert grasslands
STATES:
BLM PHYSIOGRAPHIC REGIONS [7]:3 Southern Pacific Border 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 [45] PLANT ASSOCIATIONS:K023 Juniper-pinyon woodland K038 Great Basin sagebrush K039 Blackbrush K040 Saltbush-greasewood K041 Creosote bush K044 Creosote bush-tarbush K046 Desert: vegetation largely lacking K058 Grama-tobosa shrubsteppe K059 Trans-Pecos shrub savanna KO61 Mesquite-acacia savanna K065 Grama-buffalo grass K068 Wheatgrass-grama-buffalo grass K085 Mesquite-buffalo grass
SAF COVER TYPES [76]:239 Pinyon-juniper 242 Mesquite
SRM (RANGELAND) COVER TYPES [71]:401 Basin big sagebrush 403 Wyoming big sagebrush 405 Black sagebrush 412 Juniper-pinyon woodland 414 Salt desert shrub 501 Saltbush-greasewood 502 Grama-galleta 504 Juniper-pinyon pine woodland 505 Grama-tobosa shrub 508 Creosotebush-tarbush 611 Blue grama-buffalo grass 615 Wheatgrass-saltgrass-grama 701 Alkali sacaton-tobosagrass 702 Black grama-alkali sacaton 705 Blue grama-galleta 706 Blue grama-sideoats grama 712 Galleta-alkali sacaton 725 Vine mesquite-alkali sacaton 727 Mesquite-buffalo grass 728 Mesquite-granjeno-acacia
HABITAT TYPES AND PLANT COMMUNITIES:Because salty soils capable of supporting alkali sacaton are dispersed throughout thousands of acres in the Great Plains and Great Basin regions of the United States and Canada [71], the plants listed below represent only a fraction of the species associated with alkali sacaton. Alkali sacaton is common in the Southern Great Plains, where it occurs with numerous other grasses including tobosa (Pleuraphis mutica), galleta (P. jamesii), black grama (Bouteloua eriopoda), blue grama (B. gracilis), sideoats grama (B. curtipendula), buffalo grass (Buchloe dactyloides), western wheatgrass (Pascopyrum smithii), and vine-mesquite (Panicum obtusum). Commonly associated shrubs are winterfat (Krascheninnikovia lanata), fourwing saltbush (Atriplex canescens), coldenia (Coldenia spp.), Bigelow sagebrush (Artemisia bigelovii), and honey mesquite (Prosopis glandulosa var. glandulosa) [71,88]. In the Central and Northern Great Plains, alkali sacaton is reported in habitats characterized by buffalo grass, western wheatgrass, blue grama, sideoats grama, hairy grama (B. hirsuta), little bluestem (Schizachyrium scoparium), red threeawn (Aristida purpurea), and saltgrass (Distichlis spicata). Associated shrub species include big sagebrush (Artemisia tridentata), rabbitbrush (Chrysothamnus spp.), black greasewood (Sarcobatus vermiculatus), shadscale (Atriplex confertifolia), and Gardner's saltbush (A. gardneri) [11,46,71]. In the desert shrub and grassland communities that occupy low-lying areas of the Great Basin, alkali sacaton is associated with saltgrass, galleta, Indian ricegrass (Achnatherum hymenoides), bottlebrush squirreltail (Elymus elymoides), and basin wildrye (Leymus cinereus). Though vegetation cover is often low in these sites, important shrub species include fourwing saltbush, winterfat, black greasewood, rabbitbrush, Utah juniper (Juniperus osteosperma), and numerous sagebrush species including basin big sagebrush (A. t. var. tridentata), Wyoming big sagebrush (A. t. var. wyomingensis), black sagebrush (A. nova), and budsage (A. spinescens) [9,70,71,73,80]. In the southwestern states and northern Mexico, grasses associated with alkali sacaton may include tobosa, galleta, Indian ricegrass, bottlebrush squirreltail, black grama and blue grama. Co-occurring woody species include shadscale, greasewood, winterfat, fourwing saltbush, big sagebrush, broom snakeweed (Gutierrezia sarothrae), creosotebush (Larrea tridentata), tarbush (Flourensia cernua), and mesquite species. Associated succulents include prickly-pear and cholla (Opuntia spp.) and yucca (Yucca spp.) [45,71,72,87]. Publications listing alkali sacaton as a community dominant or codominant are listed below. Arizona [30] Colorado [6] Montana [63] New Mexico [23,24,71] Texas [71]
Related categories for SPECIES: Sporobolus airoides | Alkali Sacaton |
 |
 | |
| |
| |
| Content on this web site is provided for informational purposes only. We accept no responsibility for any loss, injury or inconvenience sustained by any person resulting from information published on this site. We encourage you to verify any critical information with the relevant authorities. | |
| |
|
About Us | Contact Us | Terms of Use | Privacy | Links Directory |
| 1Up Info All Rights reserved. Site best viewed in 800 x 600 resolution. |
