Diet Overlap

Marmota flaviventris (yellow-bellied marmot)
Urocitellus columbianus (Columbian ground squirrel)

Common Diet

Elymus repens (quackgrass)
Medicago sativa (yellow alfalfa)
Poa pratensis (Kentucky bluegrass)
Taraxacum campylodes (Dandelion)

Common Habitat

Blue Mountains forests
Cascade Mountains leeward forests
Craters of the Moon National Monument
Lake Roosevelt National Recreation Area
Montana Valley and Foothill grasslands
North America
North Central Rockies forests
Okanagan dry forests
Palouse grasslands
Snake-Columbia shrub steppe
South Central Rockies forests
Waterton Biosphere Reserve

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Predicting seasonal diet in the yellow-bellied marmot: success and failure for the linear programming model, G.P. Edwards, Oecologia (1997) 112:320-330
♦ 2Individual variation in the ability of Columbian ground squirrels to select an optimal diet, MARK E. RITCHIE, Evolutionary Ecology, 1988, 2, 232-252
♦ 3Spermophilus columbianus, Charles L. Elliott and Jerran T. Flinders, MAMMALIAN SPECIES No. 372, pp. 1-9 (1991)