DISTRIBUTION AND OCCURRENCE
SPECIES: Geocaulon lividum | Northern Comandra 



GENERAL DISTRIBUTION : 
Northern comandra is distributed from Newfoundland to Alaska south to
northern Washington, northern Idaho, northwest Montana, New England, New
York, and northern portions of the Great Lakes States [9,13,14,20,26].


ECOSYSTEMS : 
   FRES10  White - red - jack pine
   FRES11  Spruce - fir
   FRES18  Maple - beech - birch
   FRES19  Aspen - birch
   FRES23  Fir - spruce
   FRES24  Hemlock - Sitka spruce
   FRES28  Western hardwoods


STATES : 
     AK  ID  ME  MI  MN  MT  NH  NY  WA  WI
     AB  BC  MB  NB  NF  NT  NS  ON  PQ  SK
     YT


ADMINISTRATIVE UNITS : 
     DENA  ISRO  LACL  PIRO  SLBE  WRST
     YUCH


BLM PHYSIOGRAPHIC REGIONS : 
    1  Northern Pacific Border
    2  Cascade Mountains
    5  Columbia Plateau
    8  Northern Rocky Mountains


KUCHLER PLANT ASSOCIATIONS : 
   K093  Great Lakes spruce - fir forest
   K094  Conifer bog
   K095  Great Lakes pine forest
   K096  Northeastern spruce - fir forest
   K107  Northern hardwoods - fir forest
   K108  Northern hardwoods - spruce forest


SAF COVER TYPES : 
     1  Jack pine
     5  Balsam fir
    12  Black spruce
    13  Black spruce - tamarack
    16  Aspen
    18  Paper birch
    35  Paper birch - red spruce - balsam fir
    37  Northern white-cedar
    38  Tamarack
   201  White spruce
   202  White spruce - paper birch
   203  Balsam poplar
   204  Black spruce
   206  Engelmann spruce - subalpine fir
   217  Aspen
   222  Black cottonwood - willow
   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 : 
Northern comandra is not listed as a dominant or codominant understory
species in available publications.

Species commonly associated with northern comandra throughout its range
include American green alder (Alnus viridis ssp. crispa), bog Labrador
tea (Ledum groenlandicum), bearberry (Arctostaphylos uva-ursi), willow
(Salix spp.), crowberry (Empetrum nigrum), twinflower (Linnaea
borealis), prickly rose (Rosa acicularis), mountain cranberry (Vaccinium
vitis-idaea), bog blueberry (Vaccinium uliginosum), highbush cranberry
(Viburnum edule), bunchberry (Cornus canadensis), one-sided wintergreen
(Pyrola secunda), bluejoint reedgrass (Calamagrostis canadensis),
horsetails (Equisetum spp.), feathermosses (Hylocomium splendens and
Pleurozium schreberi), and lichens (Cladonia spp. and Peltigera
aphthosa) [3,5,21,38].

Northern comandra has a significantly (p<.10) higher presence (a
classification of relative frequency values) in black spruce (Picea
mariana) forests than in white spruce (P. glauca) forests throughout the
boreal spruce-fir forests of North America [19].

Related categories for Species: Geocaulon lividum | Northern Comandra