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DISTRIBUTION AND OCCURRENCE

SPECIES: Acer circinatum | Vine Maple
GENERAL DISTRIBUTION : Vine maple occurs in the Pacific Northwest. It ranges from the Cascade Mountains to the coast and from southwestern British Columbia to northern California [26]. In Washington and California, vine maple may extend down the east side of the Cascade Mountains along canyon bottoms and moist slopes but is confined almost entirely to the west side of the Cascades in Oregon [61]. ECOSYSTEMS : FRES20 Douglas-fir FRES21 Ponderosa pine FRES23 Fir - spruce FRES24 Hemlock - Sitka spruce FRES27 Redwood FRES28 Western hardwoods STATES : CA OR WA BC ADMINISTRATIVE UNITS : MORA NOCA OLYM REDW WHIS BLM PHYSIOGRAPHIC REGIONS : 1 Northern Pacific Border 2 Cascade Mountains 4 Sierra Mountains 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 K007 Red fir forest K025 Alder - ash forest K026 Oregon oakwoods K028 Mosaic of K002 and K026 K029 California mixed evergreen forest SAF COVER TYPES : 211 White fir 221 Red alder 222 Black cottonwood - willow 223 Sitka spruce 224 Western hemlock 225 Western hemlock - Sitka spruce 226 Coastal true fir - western hemlock 227 Western redcedar - western hemlock 228 Western redcedar 229 Pacific Douglas-fir 230 Douglas-fir - western hemlock 231 Port Orford-cedar 232 Redwood 233 Oregon white oak 234 Douglas-fir - tanoak - Pacific madrone SRM (RANGELAND) COVER TYPES : NO-ENTRY HABITAT TYPES AND PLANT COMMUNITIES : Vine maple is typically an understory shrub found in both seral and climax Douglas-fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii), western hemlock (Tsuga heterophylla), western redcedar (Thuja plicata), Port Orford-cedar (Chamaecyparis lawsoniana), Sitka spruce (Picea sitchensis), and Pacific silver fir (Abies amabilis) forests on the west side of the Cascades [15,18]. On the east side of the Cascades, vine maple occurs on moist bottoms in ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa) forests [61]. The western hemlock/vine maple/western swordfern (Polystichum munitum) plant association is common throughout the Olympic, Cascade, and Coast Ranges of Oregon and Washington [26]. Vine maple sometimes dominates or codominates talus slopes with Sitka alder (Alnus viridis ssp. sinuata) [18]. Published classification schemes listing vine maple as a dominant part of the vegetation in community types (cts), habitat types (hts), or plant associations (pas) are presented below: Area Classification Authority s OR: Cascade Mtns forest pas Atzet & McCrimmon 1990 w OR: w Cascades forest cts Dyrness & others 1974 OR: Monument Peak general veg. cts Aller 1956 w OR: Mt. Hood NF western hemlock pas Halverson & others 1986 w OR: Mt. Hood & Pacific silver fir pas Hemstrom & others 1982 Willamette NF w OR: Siuslaw NF general veg. pas Hemstrom & Logan 1986 s OR: Abott Creek general veg. cts Mitchell and Moir 1976 Research Natural Area w OR: H.J. Andrews general veg. cts,hts,pas Hawk 1979 Exp. Forest nw OR: Tillamook postfire veg. cts Bailey & Poulton 1968 Burn OR, WA general veg. cts Franklin and Dyrness 1973 WA: Willamette NF general veg. pas Hemstrom & others 1987

Related categories for Species: Acer circinatum | Vine Maple

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