Plantae > Tracheophyta > Liliopsida > Poales > Poaceae > Stipa > Stipa comataStipa comata (needle-and-thread grass)Synonyms: Hesperostipa comata; Hesperostipa comata intermedia; Stipa comata intonsa; Stipa comata var. falcata; Stipa comata var. intermedia; Stipa comata var. suksdorfii; Stipa spartea var. intermedia (homotypic); Stipa spartea var. tweedyi (homotypic); Stipa tweedyi (homotypic) Hesperostipa comata, commonly known as needle-and-thread grass, is a species of grass native to North America, especially the western third. It has a wide distribution spanning from northern Canada to Mexico. |
| Lifespan [1] | Perennial | | Structure [2] | Grass |
|
| Name |
IUCN Category |
Area acres |
Location |
Species |
Website |
Climate |
Land Use |
|
Agate Fossil Beds National Monument |
V |
4731 |
Nebraska, United States |
 |
 |
 |
 |
|
Arches National Park |
II |
76539 |
Utah, United States |
|
|
|
|
|
Badlands National Park |
II |
178535 |
South Dakota, United States |
|
|
|
|
|
Banff National Park |
II |
1690912 |
Alberta, Canada |
|
|
|
|
|
Bighorn Canyon National Recreation Area |
V |
36286 |
Montana, Wyoming, United States |
|
|
|
|
|
Canyonlands National Park |
II |
335430 |
Utah, United States |
|
|
|
|
|
Cedar Breaks National Monument |
III |
6111 |
Utah, United States |
|
|
|
|
|
Central Plains Biosphere Reserve |
|
15345 |
United States |
|
|
|
|
|
Craters of the Moon National Monument |
V |
690996 |
Idaho, United States |
|
|
|
|
|
Death Valley National Park |
II |
762125 |
California, Nevada, United States |
|
|
|
|
|
Desert Biosphere Reserve |
|
68236 |
Utah, United States |
|
|
|
|
|
Devils Tower National Monument |
V |
1361 |
Wyoming, United States |
|
|
|
|
|
Fort Union Trading Post National Hist. Site National Historic Site |
III |
24 |
Montana, United States |
|
|
|
|
|
Grand Canyon National Park |
II |
1210128 |
Arizona, United States |
|
|
|
|
|
Grasslands National Park |
II |
128635 |
Saskatchewan, Canada |
|
|
|
|
|
Jasper National Park |
II |
2776809 |
Alberta, Canada |
|
|
|
|
|
John Day Fossil Beds National Monument |
III |
8594 |
Oregon, United States |
|
|
|
|
|
Kluane National Park and Reserve National Park Reserve |
II |
5463436 |
Yukon, Canada |
|
|
|
|
|
Knife River Indian Villages National Hist. Site National Historic Site |
III |
1756 |
North Dakota, United States |
|
|
|
|
|
Kootenay National Park |
II |
341762 |
British Columbia, Canada |
|
|
|
|
|
Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument |
V |
755 |
Montana, United States |
|
|
|
|
|
Mojave and Colorado Deserts Biosphere Reserve |
|
5901 |
California, United States |
|
|
|
|
|
Natural Bridges National Monument |
III |
7412 |
Utah, United States |
|
|
|
|
|
Petrified Forest National Park |
II |
44522 |
Arizona, United States |
|
|
|
|
|
Pipe Spring National Monument |
V |
41 |
Arizona, United States |
|
|
|
|
|
Prince Albert National Park |
II |
976762 |
Saskatchewan, Canada |
|
|
|
|
|
Rocky Mountain Biosphere Reserve |
II |
239938 |
Colorado, United States |
|
|
|
|
|
Scotts Bluff National Monument |
V |
3185 |
Nebraska, United States |
|
|
|
|
|
Shortgrass Steppe LTER Site Long Term Ecological Research |
|
|
Colorado, United States |
|
|
|
|
|
Wind Cave National Park |
II |
29471 |
South Dakota, United States |
|
|
|
|
|
Wood Buffalo National Park |
II |
11038545 |
Alberta, Canada |
|
|
|
|
|
Yellowstone Biosphere Reserve |
II |
2196863 |
Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, United States |
|
|
|
|
|
Zion National Park |
II |
135667 |
Utah, United States |
|
|
|
|
Attributes / relations provided by ♦ 1USDA Plants Database, U. S. Department of Agriculture ♦ 2Kattge, J. et al. (2011b) TRY - a global database of plant traits Global Change Biology 17:2905-2935 ♦ 3Evaluating Diet Composition of Pronghorn in Wind Cave National Park, South Dakota, CHRISTOPHER N. JACQUES, JARET D. SIEVERS, JONATHAN A. JENKS, CHAD L. SEXTON, and DANIEL E. RODDY, The Prairie Naturalist 38(4): December 2006, pp. 239-250 ♦ 4Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics. ♦ 5Bighorn Sheep Diet Selection and Forage Quality in Central Idaho, Guy D. Wagner and James M. Peek, Northwest Science, Vol. 80, No.4, 2006, pp. 246-258 ♦ 6Thomomys talpoides, B. J. Verts and Leslie N. Carraway, MAMMALIAN SPECIES No. 618, pp. 1-11 (1999) |
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0
|