Codes for Küchler vegetation type
WESTERN FORESTS
Needleleaf Forests
1. Spruce-cedar hemlock forest
2. Cedar-hemlock-Douglas fir forest
3. Silver fir-Douglas fir forest
4. Fir-hemlock forest
5. Mixed conifer forest
6. Redwood forest
7. Red fir forest
8. Lodgepole pine-subalpine forest
9. Pine-cypress forest
10. Ponderosa shrub forest
11. Western ponderosa forest
12. Douglas fir forest
13. Cedar-hemlock-pine forest
14. Grand fir-Douglas fir forest
15. Western spruce-fir forest
16. Eastern ponderosa forest
17. Black Hills pine forest
18. Pine-Douglas fir forest
19. Arizona pine forest
20. Spruce-fir-Douglas fir forest
21. Southwestern spruce-fir forest
22. Great Basin pine forest
23. Juniper-pinyon woodland
24. Juniper steppe woodland
Broadleaf forests
25. Alder-ash forest
26. Oregon oakwoods
27. Mesquite bosques
Broadleaf and needleleaf forests
28. Mosaic of numbers 2 and 26
29. California mixed evergreen forest
30. California oakwoods
31. Oak-juniper woodland
32. Transition between 31 and 37
WESTERN SHRUB AND GRASSLAND
Shrub
33. Chaparral
34. Montane chaparral
35. Coastal sagebrush
36. Mosaic of numbers 30 and 35
37. Mountain mahogany-oak scrub
38. Great Basin sagebrush
39. Blackbrush
40. Saltbush-greasewood
41. Creosote bush
42. Creosote bush-bur sage
43. Palo verde-cactus shrub
44. Creosote bush-tarbush
45. Ceniza shrub
46. Desert: vegetation largely absent
Grasslands
47. Fescue-oatgrass
48. California steppe
49. Tule marshes
50. Fescue-wheatgrass
51. Wheatgrass-bluegrass
52. Alpine meadows and barren
53. Grama-galleta steppe
54. Grama-tobosa prairie
Shrub and grasslands combinations
55. Sagebrush steppe
56. Wheatgrass-needlegrass shrubsteppe
57. Galleta-three awn shrubsteppe
58. Grama-tobosa shrubsteppe
59. Trans-Pecos shrub savanna
60. Mesquite savanna
61. Mesquite-acacia savanna
62. Mesquite-live oak savanna
CENTRAL AND EASTERN GRASSLANDS
Grasslands
63. Foothills prairie
64. Grama-needlegrass-wheatgrass
65. Grama-buffalo grass
66. Wheatgrass-needlegrass
67. Wheatgrass-bluestem-needlegrass
68. Wheatgrass-grama-buffalo grass
69. Bluestem-grama prairie
70. Sandsage-bluestem prairie
71. Shinnery
72. Sea oats prairie
73. Northern cordgrass prairie
74. Bluestem prairie
75. Nebraska Sandhills prairie
76. Blackland prairie
77. Bluestem-sacahuista prairie
78. Southern cordgrass prairie
79. Palmetto prairie
Grassland and forest combinations
80. Marl-Everglades
81. Oak savanna
82. Mosaic of numbers 74 and 100
83. Cedar glades
84. Cross timbers
85. Mesquite-buffalo grass
86. Juniper-oak savanna
87. Mesquite-oak savanna
88. Fayette prairie
89. Blackbelt
90. Live oak-sea oats
91. Cypress savanna
92. Everglades
EASTERN FORESTS
Needleleaf forests
93. Great Lakes spruce-fir forest
94. Conifer bog
95. Great Lakes pine forest
96. Northeastern spruce-fir forest
97. Southeastern spruce-fir forest
Broadleaf forests
98. Northern floodplain forest
99. Maple-basswood forest
100. Oak-hickory forest
101. Elm-ash forest
102. Beech-maple forest
103. Mixed mesophytic forest
104. Appalachian oak forest
105. Mangrove
Broadleaf and needleleaf forests
106. Northern hardwoods
107. Northern hardwoods-fir forest
108. Northern hardwoods-spruce forest
109. Transition between numbers 104 and 106
110. Northeastern oak-pine forest
111. Oak-hickory-pine forest
112. Southern mixed forest
113. Southern floodplain forest
114. Pocosin
115. Sand pine scrub
116. Subtropical pine forest
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