DISTRIBUTION AND OCCURRENCE
SPECIES: Acer spicatum | Mountain Maple 



GENERAL DISTRIBUTION : 
Mountain maple is found throughout southeastern Canada and the
northeastern United States, from Newfoundland to Saskatchewan south to
Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, northeastern Iowa, and in the
mountains to western North Carolina and eastern Tennessee [17,20].


ECOSYSTEMS : 
   FRES10  White - red - jack pine
   FRES11  Spruce - fir
   FRES18  Maple - beech - birch
   FRES19  Aspen - birch


STATES : 
     CT  IA  ME  MA  MI  MN  NH  NJ  NY  NC
     OH  PA  RI  TN  VT  VA  WV  WI  MB  NB
     NF  NS  ON  PE  PQ  SK


ADMINISTRATIVE UNITS : 
     ACAD  APIS  BLRI  DEWA  GRSM  ISRO
     JOFL  NERI  PIRO  SHEN  SLBE  VOYA


BLM PHYSIOGRAPHIC REGIONS : 
NO-ENTRY


KUCHLER PLANT ASSOCIATIONS : 
   K093  Great Lakes spruce - fir forest
   K094  Conifer bog
   K095  Great Lakes pine forest
   K096  Northeastern spruce - fir forest
   K097  Southeastern spruce - fir forest
   K099  Maple - basswood forest
   K102  Beech - maple forest
   K103  Mixed mesophytic forest
   K106  Northern hardwoods
   K107  Northern hardwoods - fir forest
   K108  Northern hardwoods - spruce forest


SAF COVER TYPES : 
     1  Jack pine
     5  Balsam fir
    15  Red pine
    16  Aspen
    17  Pin cherry
    18  Paper birch
    20  White pine - northern red oak - red maple
    21  Eastern white pine
    22  White pine - hemlock
    23  Eastern hemlock
    24  Hemlock - yellow birch
    25  Sugar maple - beech - yellow birch
    26  Sugar maple - basswood
    27  Sugar maple
    30  Red spruce - yellow birch
    31  Red spruce - sugar maple - beech
    32  Red spruce
    33  Red spruce - balsam fir
    34  Red spruce - Fraser fir
    37  Northern white-cedar
    39  Black ash - American elm - red maple
    60  Beech - sugar maple
   108  Red maple


SRM (RANGELAND) COVER TYPES : 
NO-ENTRY


HABITAT TYPES AND PLANT COMMUNITIES : 
Mountain maple is an understory or subcanopy component in a number of
northeastern forest associations.  It is usually scattered in climax
types, such as spruce-fir or sugar maple; it attains shrub-layer
dominance in mid-seral types and occasionally will form a dense,
continuous shrub layer in disturbed forests.

The most common understory associates of mountain maple include
hobblebush (Viburnum alnifolium), striped maple (Acer pensylvanicum),
pin cherry (Prunus pensylvanica), American mountain-ash (Sorbus
americana), beaked hazel (Corylus cornuta), speckled alder (Alnus
rugosa), green alder (A. crispa), red-osier dogwood (Cornus sericea),
and red raspberry (Rubus idaeus) [60].  Ground layer associates vary
with cover type.  Typical associates include bunchberry (Cornus
canadensis), Canada mayflower (Maianthemum canadense), Aster acuminatus,
mountain woodsorrel (Oxalis montana), wild sarsaparilla (Aralia
nudicaulis), and yellow beadlily (Clintonia borealis) [11,22,26,44].

Mountain maple is named as an subcanopy dominant or indicator
species in the following publications:

Some forest types of central Newfoundland and their relation to
   environmental factors [10]
The principal plant associations of the Saint Lawrence Valley [11]
A forest classification for the Maritime Provinces [40]
Some aspects of the aspen-birch-spruce-fir type in Ontario [41]
Wilderness ecology: virgin plant communities of the Boundary Waters
   Canoe Area [45]
Classification and gradient analysis of forest vegetation of Cape
   Enrage, Bic Park, Quebec [61]

Related categories for Species: Acer spicatum | Mountain Maple