Northern Tallgrass prairie

Northern Tallgrass prairie

Northern Tallgrass prairie
The Northern Tallgrass Prairie — the higher-latitude extension of the tallgrass biome across western Minnesota, eastern North Dakota, eastern South Dakota, and southern Manitoba. Cooler, drier, and shorter-growing-season than the central tallgrass; big bluestem, Indiangrass, prairie cordgrass dominate the lowland matrix, with porcupine grass and needle-and-thread on uplands. The historical prairie pothole landscape — globally important for waterfowl — overlaps the western half.
RESOLVE 397
Nearctic
31,920 sq mi
Humid continental, cool summer (Köppen Dfb)
Temperate Grasslands, Savannas & Shrublands
Estados / províncias
Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, Manitoba
Tipo de paisagem
Temperate Grasslands, Savannas & Shrublands
Região vegetal
Nearctic
Pegada da região
31,920 sq mi
Faixa de altitude
800 – 1,700 ft
Tipo de clima
Humid continental, cool summer (Köppen Dfb)
Pressão sobre o habitat
Nature Imperiled (Dinerstein NNH 4)
Use isto como o padrão geral de plantio para a região: Temperate prairies, steppes, and pampas of grasses and forbs with few trees, under continental climates of hot summers and cold winters. Their deep, fertile soils have made them among the most extensively converted biomes for agriculture. Para decisões de jardim, combine esse contexto com a lista de plantas abaixo e depois refine pelas restrições de luz, água, solo e tamanho adulto do seu local.

Range & origins

Northern Tallgrass prairie location on world map
Marker placed inside the RESOLVE 2017 polygon at 48.8°N, 97.5°W.
A região ao longo do tempo
Pegada moderna
RESOLVE 2017 mapeia 31,920 sq mi
Este limite é uma pegada ecológica moderna de Northern Tallgrass prairie, não uma linha permanente no planeta. É útil para o contexto atual de plantas e fauna porque segue padrões recorrentes de vegetação, clima, relevo e perturbações.
Por que aqui
Condições de Humid continental, cool summer (Köppen Dfb)
A região fica no reino Nearctic e é classificada como temperate grasslands, savannas & shrublands. Altitude, umidade, fogo, solos, costas e o uso humano da terra podem tornar a paisagem real mais variada do que uma única cor no mapa sugere.
Pressão de mudança
Nature Imperiled
Winter low-temperature shift here is among the largest projected in North America (~4-5 °C under SSP3-7.0) — a roughly full USDA zone shift north by mid-century in the continental interior.

Coleções de plantio

Receitas de plantio prontas em que cada membro aguenta a faixa climática desta região. O selo de encaixe usa a planta mais sensível da coleção, então uma coleção resiliente é um ponto de partida mais seguro do que qualquer destaque isolado.
Resiliente ao clima · 2 plantas
Bright shade foundation
A part-shade planting with shrub structure and low foliage contrast.
Annabelle hydrangea
Coral bells
+4
Recém-possível até 2070 · 8 plantas
Climate-resilient natives for warming zones (eastern NA)
A pollinator-supporting palette of eastern North American natives with broad hardiness ranges and wide native distributions. Built for gardeners who want a planting that can handle warming zones without giving up wildlife value.
Switchgrass
Little bluestem
Common milkweed
Black-eyed Susan
Wild bergamot
Sweet Joe-Pye weed
Cutleaf coneflower
New England aster
+5
Recém-possível até 2070 · 9 plantas
Native pollinator border (eastern US)
A continuous-bloom native pollinator strip for eastern North America. Covers spring through frost with host + nectar plants spanning monarchs, native bees, hummingbirds, and specialist Lepidoptera. Little bluestem provides the matrix grass + Hesperiidae host.
Butterfly weed
Common milkweed
Purple coneflower
Wild bergamot
Scarlet bee balm
Little bluestem
Sweet Joe-Pye weed
Swamp sunflower
Smooth blue aster
Recém-possível até 2070 · 4 plantas
Sunny pollinator border
A durable sunny border with summer bloom, seedheads, and upright winter texture.
English lavender
Purple coneflower
Black-eyed Susan
Switchgrass

Regiões de plantio semelhantes

Explore outras regiões com um ritmo semelhante de verões quentes e secos. Suas listas de plantas podem sugerir espécies e combinações que valem a pena comparar.
RESOLVE 385 - Nearctic
California Central Valley grasslands
The California Central Valley grasslands fill the long lowland between the Sierra Nevada to the east and the Coast Ranges to the west, spanning the Sacramento Valley in the north and the San Joaquin Valley in the south. The climate is Mediterranean, with most rain falling in winter and conditions growing drier from north to south and on the western, rain-shadowed side. Historically a mosaic of perennial bunchgrass prairie, oak savanna, vernal pools, and riparian woodland, the region is now largely converted to farmland and dominated by introduced annual grasses. It is one of North America's most altered grasslands: less than 1% of native grassland remains and only about 4% is protected.
Temperate Grasslands, Savannas & Shrublands
Zones 7b-12a
+3.1°F by 2070
17,943 sq mi
NNH tier 4
RESOLVE 386 - Nearctic
Canadian Aspen forests and parklands
The Canadian Aspen forests and parklands — the transitional belt between the northern prairies to the south and the boreal forest to the north, covering southern Saskatchewan, southern + central Alberta, southwestern Manitoba, and small extensions into Montana and the Dakotas. Quaking aspen groves interspersed with grassland; the ecoregion functioned historically as a fire-managed mosaic, and woody encroachment under fire suppression has shifted the balance toward more closed aspen forest.
Temperate Grasslands, Savannas & Shrublands
Zones 6b-8b
+6.7°F by 2070
126,247 sq mi
Editorial profile
NNH tier 4
RESOLVE 388 - Nearctic
Central Tallgrass prairie
The Central Tallgrass Prairie — the historical core of the North American grassland biome, covering Iowa, northern Missouri, Illinois west of the Indiana hardwood line, eastern Kansas, eastern Nebraska, and the southern parts of Wisconsin and Minnesota. Big bluestem, Indiangrass, switchgrass, and side-oats grama on the dominant matrix; the deep-rooted forb diversity (Echinacea, Liatris, Silphium, Baptisia, Asclepias) underpins much of the modern native-plant-garden palette. Less than 4% of the original tallgrass remains; conservation collections matter disproportionately.
Temperate Grasslands, Savannas & Shrublands
Zones 7b-10a
+5.9°F by 2070
132,114 sq mi
Editorial profile
NNH tier 4
RESOLVE 387 - Nearctic
Central US forest-grasslands transition
The Central US forest-grasslands transition is an ecotone stretching across the central Midwest—including Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin, Missouri, Iowa, and Kentucky—where the eastern deciduous forests of the United States give way to the tallgrass prairies of the eastern Great Plains. Its presettlement landscape was a mosaic of oak savanna, bluestem prairie, and oak-hickory and maple-basswood forest, with glacial moraines, dunes, fens, and marshes common in the Chicago Lake Plain along Lake Michigan. The climate ranges from humid warm continental to humid cold temperate. Now encompassing major metropolitan areas including Chicago and Milwaukee and reaching south toward St. Louis, the region has lost over 95% of its presettlement vegetation, with only about 3% protected.
Temperate Grasslands, Savannas & Shrublands
Zones 8a-9b
+6.5°F by 2070
88,084 sq mi
NNH tier 4
RESOLVE 389 - Nearctic
Central-Southern US mixed grasslands
The Central-Southern US Mixed Grasslands run north to south from central Nebraska through Kansas and Oklahoma into north-central Texas, a vast prairie marking the ecological transition from tallgrass to shortgrass plains. Its flat-to-rolling, wind-deposited terrain (about 400-1,220 m elevation) carries native mixed-grass prairie of tallgrasses such as big bluestem and Indiangrass alongside shorter grasses, and OneEarth notes it holds the greatest floristic complexity of all North American grasslands. The climate is subhumid warm continental to warm temperate, with annual precipitation ranging from roughly 300 to 812 mm. Each spring more than 500,000 sandhill cranes (about 80% of the world's population) gather along Nebraska's Platte River, though only about 1% of the ecoregion is protected.
Temperate Grasslands, Savannas & Shrublands
Zones 8b-11a
+4.0°F by 2070
106,215 sq mi
NNH tier 4
RESOLVE 390 - Nearctic
Cross-Timbers savanna-woodland
The Cross-Timbers savanna-woodland — the post-oak / blackjack-oak savanna belt running roughly southwest-to-northeast through central Texas, central Oklahoma, and southeastern Kansas. Forms the ragged forested western edge of the eastern hardwoods before the Great Plains take over to the west. Heavily fragmented by agriculture and urban Texas / Oklahoma metro growth.
Temperate Grasslands, Savannas & Shrublands
Zones 9b-11a
+4.1°F by 2070
34,070 sq mi
Editorial profile
NNH tier 4

Sub-regiões de refinamento nacional

Dentro desta ecorregião RESOLVE, as agências nacionais reconhecem sub-regiões mais detalhadas. O Plotwright atribui cada polígono de sub-região ao polígono RESOLVE que o contém pelo centroide.
EPA Nível III (somente EUA) - 1 sub-região
48 · Lake Agassiz Plain
Fonte: USGS / EPA via Omernik (1987).
Ecoprovíncias NEF do Canadá - 2 ecoprovíncias
10.1 · Eastern Prairies
10.2 · Parkland Prairies
Fonte: Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, NEF v2.2 (Licença de Governo Aberto - Canadá).

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RESOLVE 2017 Terrestrial Ecoregions (Dinerstein et al.)
Estrutura principal de ecorregiões
Backs 4 fields
ID do RESOLVE
Bioma + reino
Área
Nível NNH
USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map
Autoridade publicada de zonas de rusticidade
Backs 1 field
Faixa de zonas USDA