DISTRIBUTION AND OCCURRENCE
SPECIES: Osmorhiza claytonii | Sweet Cicely 



GENERAL DISTRIBUTION : 
In Canada, sweet cicely is found from southern Saskatchewan east to
Quebec and south to Newfoundland [11,14,15,21,31].  In the United
States, sweet cicely is distributed from the New England states west to
the Great Plains, extending south into central Arkansas and northern
Alabama [3,14,20,29,32].


ECOSYSTEMS : 
   FRES14  Oak - pine
   FRES15  Oak - hickory
   FRES17  Elm - ash - cottonwood
   FRES18  Maple - beech - birch


STATES : 
     AL  AR  CT  GA  KS  KY  IN  IA  IL  ME
     MD  MA  MI  MN  MO  NE  NH  NJ  NC  ND
     NY  OH  PA  RI  SC  SD  TN  VT  VA  WI
     WV  MB  NB  NF  NS  ON  PE  PQ  SK


ADMINISTRATIVE UNITS : 
     ALPO  ANTI  BLRI  BUFF  CATO  COLO
     COSW  CUGA  CUVA  DEWA  EFMO  GWCA
     GWMP  GRSM  INDU  ISRO  JOFL  MACA
     MANA  NERI  OBRI  PIRO  PIPE  ROCR
     SHEN  SLBE  VOYA


BLM PHYSIOGRAPHIC REGIONS : 
   14  Great Plains


KUCHLER PLANT ASSOCIATIONS : 
   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
   K111  Oak - hickory - pine forest


SAF COVER TYPES : 
    16  Aspen
    17  Pin cherry
    18  Paper birch
    19  Gray birch - red maple
    24  Hemlock - yellow birch
    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
    46  Eastern redcedar
    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
    63  Cottonwood
    93  Sugarberry - American elm - green ash
    95  Black willow
   108  Red maple
   109  Hawthorn
   110  Black oak


SRM (RANGELAND) COVER TYPES : 
NO-ENTRY


HABITAT TYPES AND PLANT COMMUNITIES : 
Sweet cicely has a patchy distribution throughout the understory of the
northern hardwood and eastern deciduous forests [17].  It is an
indicator and/or a dominant species in the sugar maple (Acer saccharum)
climax communities of the northern states and Canada [6,8,17,37].
Common codominants in these climax communities with sugar maple are
American beech (Fagus grandifolia), red oak (Quercus rubra), and eastern
hemlock (Tsuga canadensis) [8,17].  Sweet cicely is an indicator of
highly productive sites of climax sugar maple-basswood (Tilia americana)
stands and subclimax oak-aspen (Quercus spp.-Populus tremuloides)
[9,16].  In a Minnesota sugar maple-basswood climax forest, frequency
was six sweet cicely plants per square yard (7.3 plants/sq m) [9].

Sweet cicely is a minor component in the sugar maple-white ash (Fraxinus
americana) forest zone and in the sugar maple associations with yellow
birch (Betula alleghaniensis), black ash (Fraxinus nigra), or American
elm (Ulmus americana) of eastern Canada [22,24].

Forest classifications that list sweet cicely as an indicator or
dominant species are:

(1)  Field guide:  Habitat classification system for the Upper Peninsula of
     Michigan and Northeast Wisconsin [6]
(2)  The principal plant associations of the Saint Lawrence Valley [8]
(3)  The "big woods" of Minnesota: its structure, and relation to
     climate, fire, and soils [9]
(4)  Variation in overstory biomass among glacial landforms and
     ecological land units in northwestern lower Michigan [16]
(5)  Field guide to forest habitat types of northern Wisconsin [17]
(6)  Soil-vegetation relationships in northern hardwoods of Quebec [22]
(7)  A forest classification for the maritime provinces [24]
(8)  The composition and dynamics of a beech-maple climax community [37].

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