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association,
habitat type,
shrub,
shrubland,
woodlandSilver 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].