DISTRIBUTION AND OCCURRENCE
SPECIES: Artemisia arbuscula ssp. arbuscula | Gray Low Sagebrush 



GENERAL DISTRIBUTION : 
Gray low sagebrush grows on dry sites from southern Colorado to Montana
and westward to northern California, eastern Oregon, and central
Washington [2].  It occurs throughout the northern Great Basin, the
western part of the Columbia Plateau, in the Cascade and Siskiyou
mountains, and the California Coast Range [58].  On the Colorado Plateau
to the south, it is replaced by stiff sagebrush (Artemisia rigida)
[61,69].


ECOSYSTEMS : 
   FRES20  Douglas-fir
   FRES21  Ponderosa pine
   FRES29  Sagebrush
   FRES30  Desert shrub
   FRES34  Chaparral - mountain shrub
   FRES35  Pinyon - juniper
   FRES36  Mountain grasslands
   FRES38  Plains grasslands


STATES : 
     CA  CO  ID  MT  NV  OR  UT  WA  WY  MEXICO


ADMINISTRATIVE UNITS : 
     CRMO  GRTE  JODA  LABE  YELL


BLM PHYSIOGRAPHIC REGIONS : 
    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


KUCHLER PLANT ASSOCIATIONS : 
   K011  Western ponderosa forest
   K012  Douglas-fir forest
   K018  Pine - Douglas-fir forest
   K019  Arizona pine forest
   K023  Juniper - pinyon woodland
   K024  Juniper steppe woodland
   K037  Mountain-mahogany - oak scrub
   K038  Great Basin sagebrush
   K040  Saltbush - greasewood
   K051  Wheatgrass - bluegrass
   K055  Sagebrush steppe
   K056  Wheatgrass - needlegrass shrubsteppe
   K057  Galleta - threeawn shrubsteppe
   K063  Foothills prairie
   K064  Grama - needlegrass - wheatgrass
   K065  Grama - buffalograss
   K066  Wheatgrass - needlegrass


SAF COVER TYPES : 
   210  Interior Douglas-fir
   218  Lodgepole pine
   220  Rocky Mountain juniper
   237  Interior ponderosa pine
   238  Western juniper
   239  Pinyon - juniper


SRM (RANGELAND) COVER TYPES : 
NO-ENTRY


HABITAT TYPES AND PLANT COMMUNITIES : 
Gray low sagebrush is an indicator in many sagebrush-grassland habitat
types, as well as in western juniper (Juniperus occidentalis)-low
sagebrush woodland habitat types of eastern Oregon and Washington.  It
occurs most commonly as a codominant with bunchgrasses in topoedaphic
climaxes.  Common codominant species in the habitat types and community
types listed below include Idaho fescue (Festuca idahoensis), bluebunch
wheatgrass (Pseudoroegneria spicata), onespike oatgrass (Danthonia
unispicata), Sandberg bluegrass (Poa secunda), bottlebrush squirreltail
(Elymus elymoides), prairie junegrass (Koeleria macrantha), and Thurber
needlegrass (Stipa thurberiana).  Gray low sagebrush grows as an
understory dominant with singleleaf pinyon (Pinus monophylla) in some
areas.  Other commom plant associates include big sagebrush, alkali
sagebrush, antelope bitterbrush (Purshia tridentata), rabbitbrush
(Chrysothamnus spp.), Hooker balsamroot (Balsamorhiza hookeri),
arrowleaf balsamroot (B. sagittata), spreading phlox (Phlox diffusa),
Hood phlox (P. hoodii), longleaf phlox (P. longifolia), lambstongue
groundsel (Senecio integerrimus), buckwheat (Eriogonum spp.), tapertip
hawksbeard (Crepis acuminata), milkvetch or locoweed (Astragalus spp.),
fleabane (Erigeron ssp.), aster (Aster spp.), fernleaf biscuitroot
(Lomatium dissectum), mountain dandelion (Agoseris glauca), and
pussytoes (Antennaria spp.)  [6,7,8,17,22,45,72].

Publications listing gray low sagebrush as a dominant, codominant, or
indicator species include:

Vegetation and soils of the Cow Creek Watershed [6]
Vegetation and soils of the Coils Creek Watershed [7]
Vegetation and soils of the Crane Springs Watershed [8]
Vegetation and soils of the Rock Springs Watershed [9]
An ecological reconnaissance of the Artemisia steppe on the east central
  Owyhee uplands of Oregon [14]
Vegetation-soil relationships in some Artemisia types in northern Harney
  and Lake Counties, Oregon [23]
Plant communities of the Blue Mountains in eastern Oregon and
  southeastern Washington [29]
Grassland, shrubland, and forestland habitat types of the White
  River-Arapaho National Forest [30]
Sagebrush-grass habitat types of southern Idaho [31]
Plant associations of south Chiloquin and Klamath Ranger
  Districts--Winema National Forest [33]
Plant associations of the Crooked River National Grassland [34]
Grassland and shrubland habitat types of western Montana [45]
Plant succession on two Artemisia habitat types in southeastern Oregon [55]
Plant associations of the central Oregon Pumice Zone [57]
Sagebrush steppe [70]
Artemisia arbuscula, A. longiloba, and A. nova habitat types in northern
  Nevada [72]
A preliminary description of plant communities found on the Sawtooth,
  White Cloud, Boulder, and Pioneer Mountains [75]

Related categories for Species: Artemisia arbuscula ssp. arbuscula | Gray Low Sagebrush