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DISTRIBUTION AND OCCURRENCE

SPECIES: Shepherdia argentea | Silver Buffaloberry
GENERAL DISTRIBUTION : Silver buffaloberry occurs from British Columbia east to Manitoba and south to California, Arizona, New Mexico, and Oklahoma [25,44,47,71,87]. Small populations occur in western Minnesota and northwestern Iowa [25,39]. Silver buffaloberry is most commonly found in the northern Great Plains [25,44]. ECOSYSTEMS : FRES17 Elm-ash-cottonwood FRES21 Ponderosa pine FRES28 Western hardwoods FRES29 Sagebrush FRES34 Chaparral-mountain shrub FRES35 Pinyon-juniper FRES37 Mountain meadows FRES38 Plains grasslands FRES39 Prairie STATES : AZ CA CO ID IA KS MN MT NE NV NM ND OK OR SD UT WA WY AB BC MB SK ADMINISTRATIVE UNITS : BADL BICA BRCA COLM CUST DETO DINO KNRI MEVE PIPE SCBL THRO WICA BLM PHYSIOGRAPHIC REGIONS : 2 Cascade Mountains 3 Southern Pacific Border 4 Sierra Mountains 5 Columbia Plateau 6 Upper Basin and Range 8 Northern 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 K016 Eastern ponderosa forest K017 Black Hills pine forest K023 Juniper-pinyon woodland K037 Mountain-mahogany-oak scrub K038 Great Basin sagebrush K056 Wheatgrass-needlegrass shrubsteppe K064 Grama-needlegrass-wheatgrass K066 Wheatgrass-needlegrass K067 Wheatgrass-bluestem-needlegrass K069 Bluestem-grama prairie K074 Bluestem prairie K081 Oak savanna K098 Northern floodplain forest SAF COVER TYPES : 63 Cottonwood 217 Aspen 220 Rocky Mountain juniper 235 Cottonwood-willow 236 Bur oak 237 Interior ponderosa pine 239 Pinyon-juniper 247 Jeffrey pine SRM (RANGELAND) COVER TYPES : 203 Riparian woodland 210 Bitterbrush 310 Needle-and-thread-blue grama 401 Basin big sagebrush 408 Other sagebrush types 411 Aspen woodland 412 Juniper-pinyon woodland 421 Chokecherry-serviceberry-rose 422 Riparian 601 Bluestem prairie 606 Wheatgrass-bluestem-needlegrass 607 Wheatgrass-needlegrass 608 Wheatgrass-grama-needlegrass 612 Sagebrush-grass 615 Wheatgrass-saltgrass-grama 704 Blue grama-western wheatgrass 706 Blue grama-sideoats grama 709 Bluestem-grama 710 Bluestem prairie 714 Grama-bluestem 735 Sideoats grama-sumac-juniper 805 Riparian HABITAT TYPES AND PLANT COMMUNITIES : Silver buffaloberry occurs in a variety of habitats including woodland, pinyon (Pinus spp.)-juniper (Juniperus spp.), shortgrass prairie, mixed-grass prairie, shrubland, sagebrush (Artemisia spp.), and riparian [2,4,11,33,39]. Silver buffaloberry occurs in seral communities throughout the Intermountain region. It is a riverine floodplain shrub in narrowleaf cottonwood (Populus angustifolia), black cottonwood (P. trichocarpa), and willow (Salix spp.) communities of California, Colorado, and Nevada [2,43,74]. In Colorado silver buffaloberry occurs in a narrowleaf cottonwood/strapleaf willow (S. ligulifolia)-silver buffaloberry association [2]. In North Dakota silver buffaloberry is a member of the quaking aspen (Populus tremuloides)/water birch (Betula occidentalis) habitat type [29]. In eastern Montana and western North and South Dakota, silver buffaloberry is an important species in woodland and riparian draws dominated by green ash (Fraxinus pennsylvanica) [5,12,28,29,55]. Some common habitat types include green ash, green ash/chokecherry (Prunus virginiana), and green ash/western snowberry (Symphoricarpos occidentalis) [5,28,29,37]. In western Montana a silver buffaloberry community type has been described; western snowberry may form dense ecotonal thickets around silver buffaloberry stands [28]. Silver buffaloberry is an important species in native shortgrass and mixed-grass prairies of the northern Great Plains. In North Dakota silver buffaloberry is commonly found in shrub-grassland communities dominated by western wheatgrass (Pascopyrum smithii), needlegrass (Stipa spp.), blue grama (Bouteloua gracilis), and little bluestem (Schizachyrium scoparium) [17,45,75]. Silver buffaloberry occurs in little bluestem-threadleaf sedge (Carex filifolia) and creeping juniper (Juniperus horizontalis)/little bluestem habitat types [28,29]. In the Black Hills silver buffaloberry occurs in a bur oak (Quercus macrocarpa)/skunkbush sumac (Rhus trilobata) association [34]. In North Dakota silver buffaloberry is the dominant shrub in the little Missouri River Badlands [39]. The following publication lists silver buffaloberry as a community dominant: The vegetation of the Grand River/Cedar River, Sioux, and Ashland Districts of the Custer National Forest: a habitat type classification [28] Species not previously mentioned but commonly associated with silver buffaloberry include plains cottonwood (Populus deltoides), American elm (Ulmus americana), thinleaf alder (Alnus incana ssp. tenuifolia), boxelder (Acer negundo), American plum (Prunus americana), hackberry (Celtis occidentalis), red-osier dogwood (Cornus sericea), Wood's rose (Rosa woodsii), Arkansas rose (R. arkansana), Saskatoon serviceberry (Amelanchier alnifolia), basin big sagebrush (Artemisia tridentata ssp. tridentata), fringed sage (A. frigida), shrubby cinquefoil (Potentilla fruticosa), rubber rabbitbrush (Chrysothamnus nauseous), black greasewood (Sarcobatus vermiculatus), sideoats grama (Bouteloua curtipendula), big bluestem (Andropogon gerardii var. gerardii), Kentucky bluegrass (Poa pratense), plains muhly (Muhlenbergia cuspidata), field horsetail (Equisetum arvense), Canada wildrye (Elymus canadensis), yellow sweetclover (Melilotus officinalis), white sweetclover (M. alba), and starry Solomon-seal (Smilacina stellata) [2,4,6,28,45,73].

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