DISTRIBUTION AND OCCURRENCE
SPECIES: Geranium maculatum | Wild Geranium 



GENERAL DISTRIBUTION : 
Wild geranium is found throughout eastern North America from southern
Ontario south to Georgia and west to eastern Oklahoma and eastern North
and South Dakota [15,19,27].


ECOSYSTEMS : 
   FRES10  White - red - jack pine
   FRES12  Longleaf - slash pine
   FRES13  Loblolly - shortleaf pine
   FRES14  Oak - pine
   FRES15  Oak - hickory
   FRES17  Elm - ash - cottonwood
   FRES18  Maple - beech - birch


STATES : 
     AL  AR  CT  DE  GA  IL  IN  IA  KS  KY
     LA  ME  MD  MA  MI  MN  MS  MO  NE  NH
     NJ  NY  NC  ND  OH  OK  PA  RI  SC  SD
     TN  VT  VA  WA  WI  ON  PQ


ADMINISTRATIVE UNITS : 
     ACAD  ALPO  BISO  BLRI  BUFF  CATO
     CHCH  CUGA  CUVA  DEWA  EFMO  FODO
     GWMP  GRSM  HOBE  INDU  MACA  MANA
     NATR  NERI  OBRI  OZAR  ROCR  SARA
     SHEN  SHIL  VAFO


BLM PHYSIOGRAPHIC REGIONS : 
NO-ENTRY


KUCHLER PLANT ASSOCIATIONS : 
   K081  Oak savanna
   K082  Mosaic of K074 and K100
   K095  Great Lakes pine 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
   K108  Northern hardwoods - spruce forest
   K109  Transition between K104 and K106
   K110  Northeastern oak - pine forest
   K111  Oak - hickory - pine forest
   K112  Southern mixed forest


SAF COVER TYPES : 
    20  White pine - northern red oak - red maple
    21  Eastern white pine
    25  Sugar maple - beech - yellow birch
    26  Sugar maple - basswood
    27  Sugar maple
    28  Black cherry - maple
    39  Black ash - American elm - red maple
    42  Bur oak
    51  White pine - chestnut oak
    52  White oak - black oak - northern red oak
    53  White oak
    55  Northern red oak
    57  Yellow-poplar
    59  Yellow-poplar - white oak - northern red oak
    60  Beech - sugar maple
    75  Shortleaf pine
    78  Virginia pine - oak
    82  Loblolly pine - hardwood
    83  Longleaf pine - slash pine
   108  Red maple


SRM (RANGELAND) COVER TYPES : 
NO-ENTRY


HABITAT TYPES AND PLANT COMMUNITIES : 
Jones [20,21] reported wild geranium as a dominant understory species in
a submesic northern red oak (Quercus rubra)/white oak (Q. alba)/wild
geranium community type in the hilly coastal plain province of South
Carolina.  The overstory dominance is shared among northern red oak,
white oak, pignut hickory (Carya glabra), and yellow-poplar
(Liriodendron tulipifera).  The shrub layer dominants are sweet-shrub
(Calycanthus floridus) and redbud (Cercis canadensis), with white ash
(Fraxinus americanus) in canopy gaps.  The ground layer herbaceous
dominants include wild geranium, Christmas fern (Polystichum
acrostichoides), bloodroot (Sanguinaria canadensis), lovage (Ligusticum
canadense), and cohosh (Cimicifuga racemosa).

Related categories for Species: Geranium maculatum | Wild Geranium