DISTRIBUTION AND OCCURRENCE
SPECIES: Asarum caudatum | Wild Ginger 



GENERAL DISTRIBUTION : 
Wild ginger occurs in California, Oregon, Washington, British Columbia,
Idaho, and Montana [9].  In California it occurs in the Coast Ranges
from the Santa Cruz Mountains northward [14].  In Oregon, Washington,
and British Columbia, it is commonly found from the Pacific Coast east
to the Cascades and is found less frequently on the east side of the
Cascades.  Wild ginger is also found in northern Idaho and western
Montana [9].


ECOSYSTEMS : 
   FRES20  Douglas-fir
   FRES22  Western white pine
   FRES23  Fir - spruce
   FRES24  Hemlock - Sitka spruce
   FRES25  Larch
   FRES27  Redwood
   FRES28  Western hardwoods


STATES : 
     CA  ID  MT  OR  WA  BC


ADMINISTRATIVE UNITS : 
     CRLA  MORA  NOCA  OLYM  PORE  REDW


BLM PHYSIOGRAPHIC REGIONS : 
   1  Northern Pacific Border
   2  Cascade Mountains
   3  Southern Pacific Border
   8  Northern Rocky Mountains


KUCHLER PLANT ASSOCIATIONS : 
   K001  Spruce - cedar - hemlock forest
   K002  Cedar - hemlock - Douglas-fir forest
   K003  Silver fir - Douglas-fir forest
   K004  Fir - hemlock - Douglas-fir forest
   K005  Mixed conifer forest
   K006  Redwood forest
   K007  Red fir forest
   K012  Douglas-fir forest
   K013  Cedar - hemlock - pine forest
   K014  Grand fir - Douglas-fir forest
   K015  Western spruce - fir forest


SAF COVER TYPES : 
   201  White spruce
   206  Engelmann spruce - subalpine fir
   210  Interior Douglas-fir
   212  Western larch
   213  Grand fir
   215  Western white pine
   221  Red alder
   223  Sitka spruce
   224  Western hemlock
   225  Western hemlock - Sitka spruce
   226  Coastal true fir - hemlock
   227  Western redcedar - western hemlock
   228  Western redcedar
   229  Pacific Douglas-fir
   230  Douglas-fir - western hemlock
   232  Redwood
   234  Douglas-fir - tanoak - Pacific madrone


SRM (RANGELAND) COVER TYPES : 
NO-ENTRY


HABITAT TYPES AND PLANT COMMUNITIES : 
Wild ginger is commonly found in the understory of grand fir (Abies
grandis), western white pine (Pinus monticola), Douglas-fir (Pseudotsuga
menziesii), western redcedar (Thuja plicata), and western hemlock (Tsuga
heterophylla).  In the understory community, wild ginger is commonly
associated with trail plant (Adenocaulon bicolor), queencup beadlily
(Clintonia uniflora), and western goldthread (Coptis occidentalis) [2].

Wild ginger is listed as an indicator or dominant in the following
habitat type (hts) and community type (cts) classifications:

Location             Classification             Authority

n-c ID                  forest cts              Pierce and Peek  1984
n ID                    forest hts,cts          Cooper et al 1987

Related categories for Species: Asarum caudatum | Wild Ginger