DISTRIBUTION AND OCCURRENCE
SPECIES: Krascheninnikovia lanata | Winterfat 



GENERAL DISTRIBUTION : 
Winterfat occurs in arid regions of western North America.  It occurs
east of the Cascade Range in Washington and Oregon, south to the Mojave
Desert in California, east to the Trans Pecos and Panhandle region of
Texas and adjacent Mexico, and north through the Great Plains to
Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Alberta [38,42,43,88].  An isolated
population has been described from Kluane National Park in southern
Yukon Territory [64].  Krascheninnikovia lanata var. subspinosa occurs
from southern Utah and southern California south to Mexico, and K.
lanata var. ruinina occurs in San Juan County, Utah [97].


ECOSYSTEMS : 
   FRES21  Ponderosa pine
   FRES29  Sagebrush
   FRES30  Desert shrub
   FRES33  Southwestern shrubsteppe
   FRES35  Pinyon-juniper
   FRES38  Plains grasslands
   FRES40  Desert grasslands


STATES : 
     AZ  CA  CO  ID  KS  MT  NE  NV  NM  ND
     OK  OR  SD  TX  UT  WA  WY  AB  BC  MB
     SK  YT  MEXICO


ADMINISTRATIVE UNITS : 
     AGFO  ARCH  BADL  BAND  BICA  BRCA
     CANY  CARE  CACA  CHCU  COLM  CURE
     DEVA  DINO  ELMA  ELMO  FOBO  FOUS
     GLCA  GUMO  HOVE  LAME  LAMR  MEVE
     MOCA  NABR  PECO  PEFO  PIPE  SCBL
     WACA  WUPA  YELL


BLM PHYSIOGRAPHIC REGIONS : 
    3  Southern Pacific Border
    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
   11  Southern Rocky Mountains
   12  Colorado Plateau
   13  Rocky Mountain Piedmont
   14  Great Plains
   15  Black Hills Uplift
   16  Upper Missouri Basin and Broken Lands


KUCHLER PLANT ASSOCIATIONS : 
   K016  Eastern ponderosa forest
   K023  Juniper-pinyon woodland
   K038  Great Basin sagebrush
   K039  Blackbrush
   K040  Saltbush-greasewood
   K041  Creosotebush
   K042  Creosotebush-bursage
   K053  Grama-galleta steppe
   K055  Sagebrush steppe
   K056  Wheatgrass-needlegrass shrubsteppe
   K058  Grama-tobosa shrubsteppe
   K064  Grama-needlegrass-wheatgrass
   K066  Wheatgrass-needlegrass


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


SRM (RANGELAND) COVER TYPES : 
   110  Ponderosa pine-grassland
   211  Creosotebush scrub
   212  Blackbush
   314  Big sagebrush-bluebunch wheatgrass
   320  Black sagebrush-bluebunch wheatgrass
   401  Basin big sagebrush
   402  Mountain big sagebrush
   403  Wyoming big sagebrush
   405  Black sagebrush
   408  Other sagebrush types
   412  Juniper-pinyon woodland
   414  Salt desert shrub
   501  Saltbush-greasewood
   502  Grama-galleta
   506  Creosotebush-bursage
   608  Wheatgrass-grama-needlegrass
   612  Sagebrush-grass
   701  Alkali sacaton-tobosagrass
   702  Black grama-alkali sacaton
   703  Black grama-sideoats grama
   704  Blue grama-western wheatgrass
   705  Blue grama-galleta
   706  Blue grama-sideoats grama
   707  Blue grama-sideoats grama-black grama
   712  Galleta-alkali sacaton
   724  Sideoats grama-New Mexico feathergrass-winterfat
   725  Vine mesquite-alkali sacaton


HABITAT TYPES AND PLANT COMMUNITIES : 
Winterfat occurs in salt-desert shrub communities with other chenopod
shrubs including shadscale (Atriplex confertifolia), fourwing saltbush
(A. canescens), spiny hopsage (Grayia spinosa), greenmolly (Kochia
americana), and black greasewood (Sarcobatus vermiculatus).
Winterfat-dominated communities exist in almost pure stands over
extensive areas.  Associated species frequently include green
rabbitbrush (Chrysothamnus viscidiflorus), Indian ricegrass (Oryzopsis
hymenoides), galleta (Hilaria jamesii), and black sagebrush (Artemisia
nova).  Winterfat is also a common component of grassland and sagebrush
(Artemisia spp.) communities [9,62].  Winterfat occurs in Joshua tree
(Yucca brevifolia) communties in California [53].

Winterfat is described as a dominant or codominant species in plant
communities in the following publications:

Vegetation and soils of the Duckwater Watershed [6]
Vegetation and soils of the Cow Creek Watershed [7]
Vegetation and soils of the Churchill Canyon Watershed [8]
Steppe vegetation of Washington [22]
New Mexico vegetation: Past, present, and future [24]
Phyto-edaphic communities of the Upper Rio Puerco Watershed, New Mexico [34]
Natural vegetation of Oregon and Washington [35]
Forest and woodland habitat types (plant associations) of northern New
  Mexico and northern Arizona [51]

Related categories for Species: Krascheninnikovia lanata | Winterfat