DISTRIBUTION AND OCCURRENCE
SPECIES: Aralia nudicaulis | Wild Sarsaparilla 



GENERAL DISTRIBUTION : 
Wild sarsaparilla is distributed from Newfoundland south to North
Carolina and west through the Great Plains [39,48,110,116,120].  Its
range continues in Canada to British Columbia and in the United States
through the Intermountain West to northeastern Washington [34,54,57].


ECOSYSTEMS : 
   FRES10  White - red - jack pine
   FRES11  Spruce - fir
   FRES14  Oak - pine
   FRES15  Oak - hickory
   FRES17  Elm - ash - cottonwood
   FRES18  Maple - beech - birch
   FRES19  Aspen - birch
   FRES20  Douglas-fir
   FRES21  Ponderosa pine
   FRES22  Western white pine
   FRES23  Fir - spruce
   FRES25  Larch


STATES : 
     AR  CO  CT  GA  ID  IL  IN  IA  KY  ME
     MD  MA  MI  MN  MO  MT  NE  NH  NJ  NY
     NC  OH  PA  RI  SD  TN  VT  VA  WA  WV
     WI  WY  AB  BC  MD  NB  NF  NS  ON  PQ
     SK


ADMINISTRATIVE UNITS : 
     ACAD  ALPO  APIS  BLRI  BUFF  CACO
     CATO  CUGA  CUVA  DEWA  EFMO  FIIS
     GATE  GLAC  GRSM  INDU  ISRO  JOFL
     MORU  NERI  PIRO  ROCR  ROMO  SHEN
     SLBE  THRO  VOYA  WICA


BLM PHYSIOGRAPHIC REGIONS : 
    8  Northern Rocky Mountains
    9  Middle Rocky Mountains
   11  Southern Rocky Mountains
   13  Rocky Mountain Piedmont
   14  Great Plains
   15  Black Hills Uplift
   16  Upper Missouri Basin and Broken Lands


KUCHLER PLANT ASSOCIATIONS : 
   K012  Douglas-fir forest
   K013  Cedar - hemlock - pine forest
   K014  Grand fir - Douglas-fir forest
   K015  Western spruce - fir forest
   K018  Pine - Douglas-fir forest
   K093  Great Lakes spruce - fir forest
   K094  Conifer bog
   K095  Great Lakes pine forest
   K096  Northeastern spruce - fir forest
   K097  Southeastern spruce - fir forest
   K098  Northern floodplain forest
   K099  Maple - basswood forest
   K100  Oak - hickory forest
   K101  Elm - ash forest
   K102  Beech - maple forest
   K103  Mixed mesophytic forest
   K104  Appalachian oak forest
   K106  Northern hardwoods
   K107  Northern hardwoods - fir forest
   K108  Northern hardwoods - spruce forest
   K111  Oak - hickory - pine forest


SAF COVER TYPES : 
     1  Jack pine
     5  Balsam fir
    12  Black spruce
    13  Black spruce - tamarack
    15  Red pine
    16  Aspen
    17  Pin cherry
    18  Paper birch
    20  White pine - northern red oak - red maple
    21  Eastern white pine
    22  White pine - hemlock
    23  Eastern hemlock
    24  Hemlock - yellow birch
    25  Sugar maple - beech - yellow birch
    26  Sugar maple - basswood
    27  Sugar maple
    28  Black cherry - maple
    30  Red spruce - yellow birch
    31  Red spruce - sugar maple - beech
    32  Red spruce
    33  Red spruce - balsam fir
    34  Red spruce - Fraser fir
    35  Paper birch - red spruce - balsam fir
    37  Northern white-cedar
    39  Black ash - American elm - red maple
    42  Bur oak
    44  Chestnut oak
    46  Eastern redcedar
    52  White oak - black oak - northern red oak
    58  Yellow-poplar - eastern hemlock
    60  Beech - sugar maple
   107  White spruce
   108  Red maple
   110  Black oak
   201  White spruce
   202  White spruce - paper birch
   203  Balsam poplar
   204  Black spruce
   206  Engelmann spruce - subalpine fir
   210  Interior Douglas-fir
   212  Western larch
   213  Grand fir
   215  Western white pine
   217  Aspen
   218  Lodgepole pine
   227  Western redcedar - western hemlock
   228  Western redcedar
   236  Bur oak
   237  Interior ponderosa pine
   251  White spruce - aspen
   252  Paper birch
   253  Black spruce - white spruce
   254  Black spruce -  paper birch


SRM (RANGELAND) COVER TYPES : 
NO-ENTRY


HABITAT TYPES AND PLANT COMMUNITIES : 
Wild sarsaparilla is a widespread, dominant understory species
throughout the boreal coniferous and mixed-wood forests [8,13,26,27,
67,77,88].  It is a major understory species of the chestnut oak
(Quercus prinus) type and sugar maple-beech (Acer saccharum-Fagus
grandiflora) and the bottomland cottonwood or cottonwood-birch
associations of the Great Plains [16,33,46,70,87,102].  Wild
sarsaparilla is an indicator species in several phases of western
redcedar (Thuja plicata), western hemlock (Tsuga heterophylla), and
subalpine fir (Abies lasiocarpa) habitat type series
[24,31,41,92,93,111].

Numerous classifications use wild sarsaparilla as a dominant or
indicator understory species, including the following:

(1)  Classification of the forest vegetation of Wyoming [5]
(2)  Field guide habitat classification system for Upper Peninsula of
       Michigan and Northeast Wisconsin [21]
(3)  Native woodland habitat types of southwestern North Dakota [45]
(4)  Classification of quaking aspen stands in the Black Hills and Bear
       Lodge Mountains [109]
(5)  Classification and gradient analysis of forest vegetation of Cape
       Enrage, Bic Park, Quebec [125].

Related categories for Species: Aralia nudicaulis | Wild Sarsaparilla