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Bluebunch wheatgrass appears in many habitats, including sagebrush (Artemisia spp.), pinyon-juniper (Pinus-Juniperus spp.), mountain brush, quaking aspen (Populus tremuloides), ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa) rocky slopes, plains, dry, open woods, dry slopes, canyons, and openings in fir-spruce (Abies-Picea spp.) communities [137,155.
Vegetation typings describing plant communities in which bluebunch wheatgrass is a dominant species include:
Old-growth forests of the Canadian Rocky Mountain National Parks [1]
Classification of the forest vegetation of Wyoming [6]
Classification of the forest vegetation of Colorado by habitat type and community type [7]
Distribution of plant communities in southeastern Montana badlands [52]
Forest vegetation of northern Idaho and adjacent Washington and its bearing on concepts
of vegetation classification [80]
Steppe vegetation of Washington [82]
Vegetation-soil units in the central Oregon juniper zone [96]
Plant communities and habitat types in the Lava Beds National Monument, California
[105]
Native woodland ecology and habitat classifications of southwestern North Dakota [113]
Plant communities of the Blue Mountains in eastern Oregon and southeastern Washington [119]
Upland forest and woodland habitat types of the Missouri Plateau, Great Plains Province
[124]
Forest vegetation of the Bighorn Mountains, Wyoming: a habitat type classification
[139]
A sagebrush community type classification for mountainous northeastern Nevada
rangelands [147]
Coniferous forest habitat types of northern Utah [170]
Grassland and shrubland habitat types of western Montana [185]
Forest habitat types of Montana [196]
Western-montane plant communities and forest ecosystem perspectives [215]
Forest habitat types of central Idaho [216]
Forested plant associations of the Okanogan National Forest [229]
Grassland types of south central Montana [233]
In Nevada, bluebunch wheatgrass is a community dominant in the black sagebrush (A. nova)/bluebunch, the Utah juniper (J. osteosperma)/black sagebrush/bluebunch wheatgrass, the singleleaf pinyon (Pinus monophylla)/Utah juniper (J. osteosperma)/black sagebrush/bluebunch wheatgrass, big sagebrush (A. tridentata)/bluebunch wheatgrass, and Utah juniper/big sagebrush/bluebunch wheatgrass communities [35,36,37,].
Bluebunch wheatgrass appears throughout Montana in limber pine (P. flexilis)/bluebunch wheatgrass, ponderosa pine/bluebunch wheatgrass, and Douglas-fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii)/bluebunch wheatgrass habitat types [16].
Bluebunch wheatgrass appears in the Douglas-fir /common juniper (J. communis)/bearberry (Arctostaphylos uva-ursi) open forest type in Alberta, Canada, with russet buffaloberry (Shepherdia canadensis), white spirea (Spiraea betulifolia), prickly rose (Rosa acicularis), and Rocky Mountain juniper (J. scopulorum), wooly groundsel (Senecio canus), Saskatoon serviceberry (Amelanchier alnifolia), and pinegrass (Calamagrostis rubescens) [1].
Bluebunch wheatgrass is a dominant in the Douglas-fir/ponderosa pine/bluebunch wheatgrass type in Alberta, Canada, on subxeric to xeric, southerly and westerly aspects of colluvial and morainal landforms with poorly developed Regosolic soils, with spreading dogbane (Apocynum androsaemifolium), rubber rabbitbrush (Chrysothamnus nauseosus), and Saskatoon serviceberry [1].
Bluebunch wheatgrass appears in Wyoming in the limber pine/Idaho fescue habitat type with spike fescue (Leucopoa kingii), arrowleaf balsamroot (Balsamorhiza sagittata), and tapertip hawksbeard (Crepis acuminata); in the limber pine/spike fescue type with prairie Junegrass (Koeleria macrantha), Cusick's bluegrass (Poa cusickii), Ross sedge (Carex rossii), timber milkvetch (Astragalus miser), and sticky pulsatilla (Pulsatilla ludoviciana); in the ponderosa pine/Idaho fescue type with pigweed amaranth (Amaranthus albus), threadleaf sedge (C. filifolia), and western yarrow (Achillea millefolium); and in the Douglas-fir/western snowberry (Symphoricarpos oreophilus) type with big sagebrush and wax currant (Ribes cereum) [6].
Bluebunch wheatgrass appears as a dominant in the ponderosa pine/bluebunch wheatgrass habitat type in warm, very dry sites in Wyoming, with red threeawn (Aristida purpurea), threadleaf sedge, fringed sagebrush (A. frigida), and Nuttall violet (Viola nuttalli) [6].
On the Idaho National Engineering Laboratory Site of the upper Snake River Plain in southeastern Idaho, bluebunch wheatgrass appears with big sagebrush, rubber rabbitbrush, green rabbitbrush (Chrysothamnus viscidiflorus), bottlebrush squirreltail, Indian ricegrass (Achnatherum hymenoides) and needle-and-thread grass (Hesperostipa comata) [12]. At higher elevations in Idaho, bluebunch wheatgrass appears with Utah juniper, big sagebrush, antelope bitterbrush (Purshia tridentata), threetip sagebrush (Artemisia tripartita), needle-and-thread grass, Thurber's needlegrass (Stipa thurberiana), and Sandberg bluegrass (Poa secunda).
In the Blue Mountains of Oregon, bluebunch wheatgrass dominates the bluebunch wheatgrass plants series, which includes Sandberg's bluegrass, red threeawn, milkvetches (Astragalus spp.), Wyeth's buckwheat (Eriogonum heracloides), and plains prickly-pear (Opuntia polyacantha) [3].
In Colorado, bluebunch wheatgrass appears in the Rocky Mountain juniper/bluebunch wheatgrass habitat type with big sagebrush, blue grama (Bouteloua gracilis), Indian ricegrass, bottlebrush squirreltail, and bluebells (Mertensia spp.) [7].