DISTRIBUTION AND OCCURRENCE
SPECIES: Polygonum spp. | Smartweed 



GENERAL DISTRIBUTION : 
Smartweed is a cosmopolitan genus found in Europe, Asia, Africa, and the
Americas.  In North America it is distributed from the Northwest
Territories south through Mexico and from coast to coast [15].  It is
found in Alaska and all the contiguous United States; it is probably
found in Hawaii also, although there is no specific reference to its
occurrence there.


ECOSYSTEMS : 
   FRES11  Spruce - fir
   FRES12  Longleaf - slash pine
   FRES13  Loblolly - shortleaf pine
   FRES14  Oak - pine
   FRES20  Douglas-fir
   FRES21  Ponderosa pine
   FRES29  Sagebrush
   FRES30  Desert shrub
   FRES34  Chaparral - mountain shrub
   FRES35  Pinyon - juniper
   FRES36  Mountain grasslands
   FRES37  Mountain meadows
   FRES38  Plains grasslands
   FRES39  Prairie
   FRES40  Desert grasslands
   FRES41  Wet grasslands
   FRES42  Annual grasslands
   FRES44  Alpine


STATES : 
     AL  AK  AZ  AR  CA  CO  CT  DE  FL  GA
     HI  ID  IL  IN  IA  KS  KY  LA  ME  MD
     MA  MI  MN  MS  MO  MT  NE  NV  NH  NJ
     NM  NY  NC  ND  OH  OK  OR  PA  RI  SC
     TN  TX  UT  VT  VA  WA  WV  WI  WY  AB
     BC  LB  MB  NB  NF  NS  ON  PQ  SK  YT
     MEXICO


ADMINISTRATIVE UNITS : 
NO-ENTRY


BLM PHYSIOGRAPHIC REGIONS : 
    1  Northern Pacific Border
    2  Cascade Mountains
    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 : 
   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
   K020  Spruce - fir - Douglas-fir forest
   K021  Southwestern spruce - fir forest
   K023  Juniper - pinyon woodland
   K035  Coastal sagebrush
   K037  Mountain-mahogany - oak scrub
   K038  Great Basin sagebrush
   K039  Blackbrush
   K040  Saltbush - greasewood
   K041  Creosotebush
   K046  Desert: vegetation largely lacking
   K048  California steppe
   K049  Tule marshes
   K052  Alpine meadows and barren
   K055  Sagebrush steppe
   K056  Wheatgrass - needlegrass shrubsteppe
   K057  Galleta - threeawn shrubsteppe
   K059  Trans-Pecos shrub savanna
   K063  Foothills prairie
   K064  Grama - needlegrass - wheatgrass
   K065  Grama - buffalograss
   K066  Wheatgrass - needlegrass
   K067  Wheatgrass - bluestem - needlegrass
   K069  Bluestem - grama prairie
   K070  Sandsage - bluestem prairie
   K071  Shinnery
   K072  Sea oats prairie
   K074  Bluestem prairie
   K075  Nebraska Sandhills prairie
   K080  Marl - Everglades
   K081  Oak savanna
   K092  Everglades
   K098  Northern floodplain forest


SAF COVER TYPES : 
    16  Aspen
    80  Loblolly pine - shortleaf pine
    83  Longleaf pine - slash pine
   210  Interior Douglas-fir
   217  Aspen
   237  Interior ponderosa pine


SRM (RANGELAND) COVER TYPES : 
NO-ENTRY


HABITAT TYPES AND PLANT COMMUNITIES : 
Polygonum bistortoides is named as a community component in the
following plant community typing:

A meadow site classification for the Sierra Nevada, California [30]

Related categories for Species: Polygonum spp. | Smartweed