• GENERAL DISTRIBUTION
• ECOSYSTEMS
• STATES
• BLM PHYSIOGRAPHIC REGIONS
• KUCHLER PLANT ASSOCIATIONS
• SAF COVER TYPES
• SRM (RANGELAND) COVER TYPES
• HABITAT TYPES AND PLANT COMMUNITIES

GENERAL DISTRIBUTION:

Green rabbitbrush is one of the most widely distributed shrubs on rangelands throughout western North America. It occurs from British Columbia south to southeastern California and east to North Dakota, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas.

Distribution by subspecies is as follows [10]:

Chrysothamnus viscidiflorus ssp. lanceolatus - southern British Columbia to northern New Mexico
Chrysothamnus viscidiflorus ssp. puberulus - Great Basin
Chrysothamnus viscidiflorus ssp. viscidiflorus - southern California and northern Arizona to northern Washington and western Montana eastward to northwestern Nebraska

ECOSYSTEMS:

FRES17 	Elm-ash-cottonwood
FRES20 	Douglas-fir
FRES21 	Ponderosa pine
FRES23 	Fir-spruce
FRES29 	Sagebrush
FRES30 	Desert shrub
FRES34 	Chaparral-mountain shrub
FRES35 	Pinyon-juniper

STATES:

AZ  CA  CO  ID  MT  NE  NV  NM  ND  OR
SD  TX  UT  WA  WY 

BC  SK 

BLM PHYSIOGRAPHIC REGIONS:

 5  Columbia Plateau
 6  Upper Basin and Range
 7  Lower Basin and Range
12  Colorado Plateau

KUCHLER PLANT ASSOCIATIONS:

K011  Western ponderosa forest  		
K012  Douglas-fir forest 
K015  Western spruce-fir forest
K016  Eastern ponderosa forest  		
K017  Black Hills pine forest		
K018  Pine-Douglas-fir forest		
K019  Arizona pine forest 		
K021  Southwestern spruce-fir forest
K023  Juniper-pinyon woodland
K024  Juniper steppe woodland
K037  Mountain mahogany-oak scrub
K038  Great Basin sagebrush
K039  Blackbrush
K040  Saltbush-greasewood
K041  Creosotebush
K046  Desert; vegetation largely lacking
K051  Wheatgrass-bluegrass
K052  Alpine meadows and barren
K055  Sagebrush steppe
K056  Wheatgrass-needlegrass shrubsteppe
K057  Galleta-three-awn shrubsteppe
K063  Foothills prairie
K064  Grama-needlegrass-wheatgrass
K065  Grama-buffalograss
K067  Wheatgrass-bluestem-needlegrass
K098  Northern floodplain forest

SAF COVER TYPES:

210  Interior Douglas-fir
219  Limber pine
220  Rocky Mountain juniper
237  Interior ponderosa pine
238  Western juniper
239  Pinyon-juniper

SRM (RANGELAND) COVER TYPES:

104   Antelope bitterbrush-bluebunch wheatgrass 	
107   Western juniper/big sagebrush/bluebunch wheatgrass
210   Bitterbrush 
212   Blackbush 
302   Bluebunch wheatgrass-Sandberg bluegrass	
303   Bluebunch wheatgrass-western wheatgrass 	
314   Big sagebrush-bluebunch wheatgrass	
315   Big sagebrush-Idaho fescue	
317   Bitterbrush-bluebunch wheatgrass	
322   Curlleaf mountain-mahogany-bluebunch wheatgrass
324   Threetip sagebrush-Idaho fescue	
401   Basin big sagebrush	
402   Mountain big sagebrush
403   Wyoming big sagebrush	
404   Threetip sagebrush	
405   Black sagebrush	
406   Low sagebrush	
412   Juniper-pinyon woodland	
414   Salt desert shrub	
415   Curlleaf mountain-mahogany	
421   Chokecherry-serviceberry-rose	
501   Saltbush-greasewood	
611   Blue grama-buffalograss	
612   Sagebrush-grass	
615   Wheatgrass-saltgrass-grama
708   Bluestem-dropseed

HABITAT TYPES AND PLANT COMMUNITIES:

Chrysothamnus viscidiflorus ssp. lanceolatus grows with big sagebrush (Artemisia tridentata), snakeweed (Gutierrezia spp.), and other rabbitbrush (Chrysothamnus spp.). Chrysothamnus viscidiflorus ssp. puberulus is most commonly found in big sagebrush communities with other subspecies of low rabbitbrush, as well as with salt-tolerant species such as halogeton (Halogeton glomeratus), shadscale (Atriplex confertifolia), and winterfat (Krascheninnikova lanata). It is occasionally found with pinyon (Pinus spp.) and juniper (Juniperus spp.). Chrysothamnus viscidiflorus ssp. viscidiflorus is most common in sagebrush (Artemisia spp.) and pinyon-juniper. It is associated with salt-tolerant shadscale, halogeton, and winterfat at lower elevations. Chrysothamnus viscidiflorus var. stenophyllus is usually found in sagebrush communities on poor soils and disturbed sites. It also grows in more saline areas.

Community classifications in which green rabbitbrush is described as a dominant species are as follows:

An ecological reconnaissance of the Artemisia steppe on the east central Owyhee uplands of Oregon [20]
Flora and major plant communities of the Ruby-East Humboldt Mountains with special emphasis on Lamoille Canyon [50]
Big sagebrush (Artemisia tridentata vaseyana) and longleaf snowberry (Symphoricarpos oreophilus) plant associations in northeastern Nevada [82]

Related categories for SPECIES: Chrysothamnus viscidiflorus | Green Rabbitbrush