DISTRIBUTION AND OCCURRENCE
SPECIES: Artemisia spinescens | Budsage 



GENERAL DISTRIBUTION : 
Budsage occurs on dry plains and hills from southwestern Montana,
central Idaho, and eastern Oregon southward to southeast California, New
Mexico, Arizona, and Colorado [12,19].


ECOSYSTEMS : 
   FRES29  Sagebrush
   FRES30  Desert shrub
   FRES34  Chaparral - mountain shrub
   FRES35  Pinyon - juniper
   FRES36  Mountain grasslands
   FRES38  Plains grasslands
   FRES40  Desert grasslands


STATES : 
     AZ  CA  CO  ID  MT  NM  NV  UT  WA  WY


ADMINISTRATIVE UNITS : 
     ARCH  BICA  CANY  COLM  DEVA  DINO
     FOBU  GLCA  MEVE  NABR


BLM PHYSIOGRAPHIC REGIONS : 
    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


KUCHLER PLANT ASSOCIATIONS : 
   K023  Juniper - pinyon woodland
   K037  Mountain mahogany - oak scrub
   K038  Great Basin sagebrush
   K039  Blackbrush
   K040  Saltbush - greasewood
   K041  Creosotebush
   K051  Wheatgrass - bluegrass
   K055  Sagebrush steppe
   K056  Wheatgrass - needlegrass shrubsteppe
   K057  Galleta - three-awn shrubsteppe
   K066  Wheatgrass - needlegrass


SAF COVER TYPES : 
NO-ENTRY


SRM (RANGELAND) COVER TYPES : 
NO-ENTRY


HABITAT TYPES AND PLANT COMMUNITIES : 
Budsage occurs as a dominant or codominant with shadscale (Atriplex
confertifolia), spiny hopsage (Grayia spinosa), Indian ricegrass
(Oryzopsis hymenoides), and bottlebrush squirreltail (Elymus elymoides)
in several desert shrub communities.  Budsage is listed as a dominant,
codominant, or indicator species in the following publications:

Vegetation and soils of the Cow Creek Watershed [2]
Vegetation and soils of the Churchill Canyon Watershed [3]
Sagebrush steppe [21]

Related categories for Species: Artemisia spinescens | Budsage