• GENERAL DISTRIBUTION
• ECOSYSTEMS
• STATES
• BLM PHYSIOGRAPHIC REGIONS
• KUCHLER PLANT ASSOCIATIONS
• SAF COVER TYPES
• SRM (RANGELAND) COVER TYPES
• HABITAT TYPES AND PLANT COMMUNITIES

GENERAL DISTRIBUTION:

Utah serviceberry occurs from Washington to Baja California, east to Montana, Colorado, and Texas [18,19,34].

ECOSYSTEMS:

FRES21   Ponderosa pine
FRES28   Western hardwoods
FRES29   Sagebrush
FRES34   Chaparral-mountain shrub
FRES35   Pinyon-juniper

STATES:

AZ   CA   CO   ID   MT   NM   NV   OR   UT   WA   WY

Mexico

BLM PHYSIOGRAPHIC REGIONS:

  2  Cascade Mountains
  3  Southern Pacific Border
  4  Sierra Mountains
  5  Columbia Plateau
  6  Upper Basin and Range
  7  Lower Basin and Range
  8  Northern Rocky Mountains
  9  Middle Rocky Mountains
10  Wyoming Basin
11  Southern Rocky Mountains
12  Colorado Plateau
13  Rocky Mountain Piedmont

KUCHLER PLANT ASSOCIATIONS:

K010   Ponderosa shrub forest
K011   Western ponderosa forest
K019   Arizona pine forest
K022   Great Basin pine forest
K023   Juniper-pinyon woodland
K024   Juniper steppe woodlands
K026   Oregon oakwoods
K030   California oakwoods
K031   Oak-juniper woodlands
K032   Transition between K031 and K037
K037   Mountain-mahogany-oak scrub
K055   Sagebrush steppe

SAF COVER TYPES:

217   Aspen
220   Rocky Mountain juniper
237   Interior ponderosa pine
238   Western juniper
239   Pinyon-juniper
240   Arizona cypress
241   Western live oak
247   Jeffrey pine

SRM (RANGELAND) COVER TYPES:

107   Western juniper/big sagebrush/bluebunch wheatgrass
109   Ponderosa pine shrubland
209   Montane shrubland
411   Aspen woodland
412   Juniper-pinyon woodland
413   Gambel oak
415   Curlleaf mountain-mahogany
416   True mountain-mahogany
419   Bittercherry
421   Chokecherry-serviceberry-rose
504   Juniper-pinyon pine woodland
509   Transition between oak-juniper woodland and mahogany-oak association

HABITAT TYPES AND PLANT COMMUNITIES:

Utah serviceberry is associated with a variety of shrubs and trees including sagebrush (Artemisia spp.), pinyon pines (Pinus spp.), ponderosa pine (P. ponderosa), quaking aspen (Populus tremuloides), junipers (Juniperus spp.), and Gambel oak (Quercus gambelii).

In the Ruby Mountains of Nevada, Utah serviceberry appears in the singleleaf pinyon (Pinus monophylla)-Utah juniper (Juniperus osteosperma) community type with big sagebrush (A. tridentata), low sagebrush (A. arbuscula ssp. arbuscula), black sagebrush (A. nova), bluebunch wheatgrass (Pseudoroegneria spicata), bottlebrush squirreltail (Elymus elymoides), Indian ricegrass (Achnatherum hymenoides), basin wildrye (Leymus cinereus), Sandberg bluegrass (Poa secunda), phlox (Phlox longifolia and P. hoodii), Beckwith milkvetch (Astragalus beckwithii), buckwheat (Eriogonum spp.), desert Indian paintbrush (Castilleja chromosa), low pussytoes (Antennaria dimorpha), bastard toadflax (Comandra pallida), Holboell rockcress (Arabis holboelii), thickstem wild cabbage (Caulanthus crassicaulis) plains prickly-pear (Opuntia polyacantha) tapertip onion (Allium acuminatum), antelope bitterbrush (Purshia tridentata), snowberry (Symphocarpos spp.), and greeen rabbitbrush (Chrysothamnus viscidiflorus) [27].

In the Colorado pinyon (Pinus edulis)-Utah juniper types in southeastern Utah, Utah serviceberry appears with Stansbury cliffrose (Purshia mexicana var. stansburiana), ephedra (Ephedra spp.), snakeweed (Gutierrezia spp.), big sagebrush, skunkbush sumac (Rhus trilobata), mountain-mahogany (Cercocarpus spp.), single-leaf ash (Fraxinus anomala), round-leaved buffaloberry (Shepherdia rotundifolia), fringed sagebrush (Artemisia frigida), banana yucca (Yucca baccata), plains prickly-pear, yellow cryptantha (Cryptantha flava), hairy telegraphplant (Heterotheca villosa), pinnate princesplume (Stanleya pinnata), and cryptogams [32].

In southwestern Utah, Utah serviceberry is associated with Gambel oak and curlleaf mountain-mahogany (Cercocarpus ledifolius) [5].

In Arizona, Utah serviceberry occurs in ponderosa pine habitat types with Arizona fescue (Festuca arizonica), mountain muhly (Muhlenbergia montana), blue grama (Bouteloua gracilis), bottlebrush squirreltail, dropseed (Sporobolus spp.), asters (Aster spp.), milkvetch (Astragalus spp.), buckwheat, geraniums (Geranium spp.), deervetch (Lotus spp.), lupine (Lupinus spp.), senecio (Senecio spp.), Fendler ceanothus (Ceanothus fendleri), New Mexico locust (Robinia neomexicana), mountain-mahogany, and Gambel oak [43].

Hess and Wasser [17], have described a Quercus gambelii-Prunus virginiana (common chokecherry)/Amelanchier utahensis/Pachystima myrsinites (boxleaf myrtle) habitat type for the White River-Arapaho National Forest of Colorado.

Related categories for SPECIES: Amelanchier utahensis | Utah Serviceberry