DISTRIBUTION AND OCCURRENCE
SPECIES: Salix planifolia ssp. planifolia | Planeleaf Willow 



GENERAL DISTRIBUTION : 
Planeleaf willow grows from the southern Yukon Territory south to
California and New Mexico, and east across boreal Canada to eastern
Canada and New England [3].  It is restricted to mountainous terrain in
the western United States.


ECOSYSTEMS : 
   FRES11  Spruce - fir
   FRES20  Douglas-fir
   FRES23  Fir - spruce
   FRES26  Lodgepole pine
   FRES29  Sagebrush
   FRES44  Alpine


STATES : 
     CA  CO  ID  ME  MN  MT  MI  NV  NH  NM
     OR  SD  UT  VT  WA  WY  AB  BC  LB  MB
     NF  NT  ON  PQ  SK  YT


ADMINISTRATIVE UNITS : 
     GRTE  ISRO  MORA  MORU  NOCA  ROMO
     YELL


BLM PHYSIOGRAPHIC REGIONS : 
    2  Cascade Mountains
    4  Sierra Mountains
    8  Northern Rocky Mountains
    9  Middle Rocky Mountains
   10  Wyoming Basin
   11  Southern Rocky Mountains
   12  Colorado Plateau
   15  Black Hills Uplift
   16  Upper Missouri Basin and Broken Lands


KUCHLER PLANT ASSOCIATIONS : 
   K008  Lodgepole pine - subalpine forest
   K012  Douglas-fir forest
   K015  Western spruce - fir forest
   K052  Alpine meadows and barren
   K055  Sagebrush steppe
   K093  Great Lakes spruce - fir forest
   K094  Conifer bog


SAF COVER TYPES : 
    12  Black spruce
    37  Northern white cedar
   201  White spruce
   204  Black spruce
   206  Engelmann spruce - subalpine fir
   210  Interior Douglas-fir
   218  Lodgepole pine
   256  California mixed subalpine


SRM (RANGELAND) COVER TYPES : 
NO-ENTRY


HABITAT TYPES AND PLANT COMMUNITIES : 
Planeleaf willow dominates low-statured shrub communities in
high-elevation, wet mountain meadows.  These are major wetland types of
alpine and subalpine zones [22,34].  At lower elevations it is generally
less abundant, and intermixed in shrubby riparian communities dominated
by other willows.

Published classifications listing planeleaf willow as a dominant in
community types (cts), habitat types (hts), dominance types (dts), or
site types (sts) are presented below:

Area                  Classification           Authority

nw CO: White River-   grassland, shrubland,    Hess & Wasser 1982  
 Arapaho NF           and forested hts                
e ID, w WY            riparian cts             Youngblood & others 1985
MT                    riparian dts             Hansen & others 1988
sw MT                 riparian sts, cts, hts   Hansen & others 1989
e, c MT               riparian cts, hts        Hansen & others 1990
w-c MT                wetland cts              Pierce & Johnson 1986
UT, se ID             riparian cts             Padgett & others 1989

Related categories for Species: Salix planifolia ssp. planifolia | Planeleaf Willow