DISTRIBUTION AND OCCURRENCE
SPECIES: Artemisia filifolia | Sand Sagebrush 



GENERAL DISTRIBUTION : 
Sand sagebrush is widely distributed throughout grasslands, prairies,
plains, and desert scrublands of western North America [28,39].  It
occurs from Nevada eastward to Wyoming and the Black Hills of South
Dakota and southward to Texas and Mexico [26,27].


ECOSYSTEMS : 
   FRES15  Oak - hickory
   FRES29  Sagebrush
   FRES30  Desert shrub
   FRES31  Shinnery
   FRES34  Chaparral - mountain shrub
   FRES35  Pinyon - juniper
   FRES36  Mountain grasslands
   FRES38  Plains grasslands
   FRES39  Prairie
   FRES40  Desert grasslands


STATES : 
     AZ  CO  KS  NE  NV  NM  OK  SD  TX  UT
     WY  MEXICO


ADMINISTRATIVE UNITS : 
     ARCH  BADL  CANY  CARE  CHCU  GLCA
     GRCA  GUMO  LAME  LAMR  PEFO  SCBL
     WICA  WUPA  ZION


BLM PHYSIOGRAPHIC REGIONS : 
    5  Columbia Plateau
    6  Upper Basin and Range
    7  Lower Basin and Range
    9  Middle Rocky Mountain
   10  Wyoming Basin
   11  Southern Rocky Mountains
   12  Colorado Plateau
   13  Rocky Mountain Piedmont
   14  Great Plains
   15  Black Hills Uplift


KUCHLER PLANT ASSOCIATIONS : 
   K017  Black Hills pine forest
   K023  Juniper - pinyon woodland
   K037  Mountain mahogany - oak scrub
   K039  Blackbrush
   K041  Creosote bush
   K055  Sagebrush steppe
   K056  Wheatgrass - needlegrass shrubsteppe
   K057  Galleta - three awn shrubsteppe
   K063  Foothills prairie
   K064  Grama - needlegrass - wheatgrass
   K065  Grama - buffalograss
   K066  Wheatgrass - needlegrass 
   K070  Sandsage - bluestem prairie
   K075  Nebraska sandhills prairie
         Disturbed areas


SAF COVER TYPES : 
   237  Interior ponderosa pine
   239  Pinyon - juniper


SRM (RANGELAND) COVER TYPES : 
NO-ENTRY


HABITAT TYPES AND PLANT COMMUNITIES : 
Sand sagebrush is a climax indicator in several grassland and shrubland
classification schemes.  It occurs as a codominant with sand bluestem
(Andropogon gerardii var. paucipilus), big bluestem (A. gerardii var.
gerardii), needle-and-thread (Stipa comata), prairie sandreed
(Calamovilfa longifolia), or blue grama (Bouteloua gracilis) in plains
grasslands or prairies.  Sand sagebrush also grows with shinnery oak
(Quercus havardii) throughout much of the Southwest [9,17,23].  Other
species commonly associated with sand sagebrush include soapweed yucca
(Yucca glauca), pricklypear (Opuntia spp.), galleta (Hilaria jamesii),
mesquite (Prosopis glandulosa), dropseeds (Sporobolus spp.), threeawns
(Aristida spp.), and broom snakeweed (Gutierrezia sarothrae)
[9,11,16,34].  Sand sagebrush is listed as a dominant, codominant, or
indicator species in the following publications:

A preliminary classification of the natural vegetation of Colorado [2]
Plant associations of Region Two: Potential plant communities of
  Wyoming, South Dakota, Nebraska, Colorado, and Kansas [22]
A series vegetation classication of Region 3 [29]

Related categories for Species: Artemisia filifolia | Sand Sagebrush