DISTRIBUTION AND OCCURRENCE
SPECIES: Epilobium angustifolium | Fireweed 



GENERAL DISTRIBUTION : 
Fireweed is a circumboreal native species and is found in all of the
Canadian provinces [72,82,127,188].  It occurs throughout the United
States except in the southeastern states and Texas [83,94,113,175,191].


ECOSYSTEMS : 
   FRES10  White - red - jack pine
   FRES11  Spruce - fir
   FRES13  Loblolly - shortleaf pine
   FRES14  Oak - pine
   FRES18  Maple - beech - birch
   FRES19  Aspen - birch
   FRES20  Douglas-fir
   FRES21  Ponderosa pine
   FRES22  Western white pine
   FRES23  Fir - spruce
   FRES24  Hemlock - Sitka spruce
   FRES25  Larch
   FRES26  Lodgepole pine
   FRES27  Redwood
   FRES44  Alpine


STATES : 
     AK  AZ  CA  CO  CT  DE  ID  IL  IN  IA
     KS  ME  MD  MA  MI  MN  MT  NE  NV  NH
     NJ  NM  NY  NC  ND  OH  OH  OR  PA  RI
     SD  TN  UT  VT  VA  WA  WV  WI  WY  AB
     BC  LB  MB  NB  NF  NT  NS  ON  PE  PQ
     SK  YT  MEXICO


ADMINISTRATIVE UNITS : 
     ACAD  APIS  BIHO  BICA  BLCA  BLRI
     CACO  CEBR  CODA  CRLA  CRMO  DEWA
     DENA  FLFO  GLBA  GLAC  GRCA  GRTE
     GRKO  GRBA  GRSA  INDU  ISRO  LACL
     LAVO  MORA  MORU  MOCA  OLYM  PIRO
     REDW  ROCR  ROMO  SHEN  SLBE  TICA
     VOYA  WICA  WRST  YELL  YOSE  YUCH


BLM PHYSIOGRAPHIC REGIONS : 
    1  Northern Pacific Border
    2  Cascade Mountains
    3  Southern Pacific Border
    4  Sierra Mountains
    5  Columbia Plateau
    6  Upper Basin and Range
    7  Lower Basin and Range
    8  Northern Rocky Mountains
    9  Middle Rocky Mountains
   10  Wyoming Basin
   11  Southern Rocky Mountains
   12  Colorado Plateau
   13  Rocky Mountain Piedmont
   14  Great Plains
   15  Black Hills Uplift
   16  Upper Missouri Basin and Broken Lands


KUCHLER PLANT ASSOCIATIONS : 
   K001  Spruce - cedar - hemlock forest
   K002  Cedar - hemlock - Douglas-fir forest
   K003  Silver fir - Douglas-fir forest
   K004  Fir - hemlock forest
   K005  Mixed conifer forest
   K006  Redwood forest
   K008  Lodgepole pine - subalpine forest
   K010  Ponderosa shrub forest
   K011 Western ponderosa forest
   K012 Douglas-fir forest
   K013  Cedar - hemlock - pine forest
   K014  Grand fir - Douglas-fir forest
   K015  Western spruce - fir forest
   K017  Black Hills pine forest
   K018  Pine - Douglas-fir forest
   K019  Arizona pine forest 
   K020  Spruce - fir - Douglas-fir forest
   K021  Southwestern spruce - fir forest
   K029  California mixed evergreen forest
   K093  Great Lakes spruce - fir forest
   K095  Great Lakes pine forest
   K096  Northeastern spruce - fir forest
   K110  Northeastern oak - pine forest
   K111  Oak - hickory - pine forest
   K112  Southern mixed forest


SAF COVER TYPES : 
     1  Jack pine
     5  Balsam fir
    12  Black spruce
    13  Black spruce - tamarack
    16  Aspen
    18  Paper birch
    20  White pine - northern red oak - red maple
    55  Northern red oak
    76  Shortleaf pine - oak
   102  Baldcypress - tupelo
   108  Red maple
   201  White spruce
   202  White spruce - paper birch
   203  Balsam poplar
   204  Black spruce
   205  Mountain hemlock
   206  Engelmann spruce - subalpine fir
   210  Interior Douglas-fir
   212  Western larch
   213  Grand fir
   216  Blue spruce
   217  Aspen
   218  Lodgepole pine
   223  Sitka spruce
   224  Western hemlock
   225  Western hemlock - Sitka spruce
   227  Western redcedar - western hemlock
   229  Pacific Douglas-fir
   230  Douglas-fir - western hemlock
   232  Redwood
   243  Sierra Nevada mixed conifer
   251  White spruce - aspen
   252  Paper birch
   253  Black spruce - white spruce
   254  Black spruce -  paper birch
   256  California mixed subalpine


SRM (RANGELAND) COVER TYPES : 
NO-ENTRY


HABITAT TYPES AND PLANT COMMUNITIES : 
Fireweed is a dominant species in many diverse riparian and upland seral
community types.  It is not useful for vegetation classification in some
areas because it is abundant in a wide variety of stands [128].
Fireweed is an indicator species in ruderal vegetation types in
Minnesota, Alaska, British Columbia, and Quebec [56,88,120,122].
Fireweed is a dominant species and is used in the following
classifications:

(1)  Classification of the riparian vegetation of the montane and
     subalpine zones in western Colorado [16]
(2)  Phytogeographia Laurentiana. II. The principal plant associations
     of the Saint Lawrence Valley [56]
(3)  Vegetation of the Big Horn Mountains, Wyoming, in relation to
     substrate and climate [59]
(4)  Montane zone vegetation of the Alsek River region, southwestern
     Yukon [61]
(5)  Classification, description, and dynamics of plant communities
     after fire in the taiga of interior Alaska [76]
(6)  Subalpine forb community types of the Bridger-Teton National
     Forest, Wyoming [85]
(7)  Vegetation types in northwestern Alaska and comparisons with
     communities in other Arctic regions [88]
(8)  Vegetation relationships among some seral ecosystems in
     southwestern British Columbia [122]
(9)  Ecosystem classification and interpretation of the sub-boreal
     spruce zone, Prince Rupert Forest Region, British Columbia [173]

Related categories for Species: Epilobium angustifolium | Fireweed