Sand dropseed occurs from B.C. south to southern California and New Mexico, and east to Ontario, Quebec, and Maine and most of the U.S. except for the extreme southeast [62]. Sand dropseed also occurs in Mexico and southern Canada [59].
14 Northern pin oak
40 Post oak-blackjack oak
42 Bur oak
44 Chestnut oak
46 Eastern redcedar
52 White oak-black oak-northern red oak
53 White oak
63 Cottonwood
66 Ash juniper-redberry (Pinchot) juniper
67 Mohrs (shin) oak
68 Mesquite
69 Sand pine
72 Southern scrub oak
110 Black oak
210 Interior Douglas-fir
220 Rocky Mountain juniper
229 Pacific Douglas-fir
233 Oregon white oak
235 Cottonwood-willow
236 Bur oak
237 Interior ponderosa pine
238 Western juniper
239 Pinyon-juniper
240 Arizona cypress
241 Western live oak
242 Mesquite
243 Sierra Nevada mixed conifer
246 California black oak
247 Jeffrey pine
248 Knobcone pine
250 Blue oak-foothills pine
Sand dropseed is a climax species in 3 or more associations and a member of the ancestral mixed prairie [31]. Common grass associates are poverty, purple, red and Woton's three awn (Aristida divaricata, A. purpurea, A. purpurea var. longiseta, A. pansa), big, sand and little bluestem (Andropogon gerardii var. gerardii, A. gerardii var. pavaipilus, Schizachyrium scoparium), black , blue and hairy grama (Bouteloua eriopoda, B. gracilis, B. hirsuta), buffalo grass (Buchloe
dactyloides),galleta (Hilaria jamesii), Texas wintergrass (Nassella leucotricha), Texas bluegrass (Poa arachnifera), spike and mesa dropseed (Sporobolus flexuous, S. contractus), needlegrass (Heterostipa comata).
Sand dropseed is listed as an indicator or a dominant species in the following publications:
Ecology of fire in short-grass prairie communities of the Kiowa National Grassland [43]
Phyto-edaphic communities of the upper Rio Puerco watershed, New Mexico [44]
Preliminary habitat types of a semiarid grassland [45]
Classification and ordination of seral plant communities [71]
Grassland ranges in the southern interior of British Columbia [89]
The palouse grassland association in northern Utah [121]
The grasslands of the southern interior of British Columbia [125]
Plant communities and secondary succession in south-central South Dakota [126]
Vegetation of the northern part of Cherry County, Nebraska [127]
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