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DISTRIBUTION AND OCCURRENCE

SPECIES: Artemisia pedatifida | Birdfoot Sagebrush
GENERAL DISTRIBUTION : Birdfoot sagebrush grows from the high plains of southern Idaho and Montana through Wyoming to northwestern Colorado [3,8,9]. It extends eastward, barely reaching the western-most edge of the Great Plains [8]. ECOSYSTEMS : FRES29 Sagebrush FRES30 Desert shrub STATES : CO ID MT UT WY ADMINISTRATIVE UNITS : NO-ENTRY BLM PHYSIOGRAPHIC REGIONS : 5 Columbia Plateau 9 Middle Rocky Mountains 10 Wyoming Basin 14 Great Plains 16 Upper Missouri Basin and Broken Lands KUCHLER PLANT ASSOCIATIONS : K038 Great Basin sagebrush K040 Saltbush - greasewood K055 Sagebrush steppe SAF COVER TYPES : NO-ENTRY SRM (RANGELAND) COVER TYPES : NO-ENTRY HABITAT TYPES AND PLANT COMMUNITIES : Birdfoot sagebrush has been described as a climax indicator at some sandy to stony sites in central Montana [2]. It is codominant with Idaho fescue (Festuca idahoensis) at these range sites [2]. Birdfoot sagebrush is found in sagebrush (Artemisia spp.)-grass and saltbush (Atriplex spp.)-grass communities in Utah and elsewhere [7]. It commonly occurs with the following species: Indian ricegrass (Oryzopsis hymenoides), needle-and-thread (Stipa comata), threadleaf sedge (Carex filifolia), Idaho fescue, bottlebrush squirreltail (Elymus elymoides), bluebunch wheatgrass (Pseudoroegneria spicata), fringed sagebrush (Artemisia frigida), winterfat (Ceratoides lanata), and a number of annual grasses and forbs [2,16].

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