DISTRIBUTION AND OCCURRENCE
SPECIES: Arctostaphylos patula | Greenleaf Manzanita 



GENERAL DISTRIBUTION : 
Greenleaf manzanita is the most common manzanita in the Great Basin and
much of the Sierra Nevada [43,59].  From the Great Basin it ranges north
through the Oregon Cascades to Klickitat County, Washington [22]; east
to western Colorado [21]; south to the higher elevations of northern
Arizona [31]; and west through the Sierra Nevada to the Coast Ranges of
California north of Lake County [44].  There is also an isolated
occurrence of this species in Lake County, Montana [13].


ECOSYSTEMS : 
   FRES20  Douglas-fir
   FRES21  Ponderosa pine
   FRES23  Fir - spruce
   FRES26  Lodgepole pine
   FRES27  Redwood
   FRES28  Western hardwoods
   FRES34  Chaparral - mountain shrub
   FRES35  Pinyon - juniper


STATES : 
     AZ  CA  CO  ID  MT  NV  NM  OR  UT  WA
     WY


ADMINISTRATIVE UNITS : 
     CARE  BRCA  CEBR  CRLA  DINO  GRCA
     LAVO  LABE  NABR  YOSE  ZION


BLM PHYSIOGRAPHIC REGIONS : 
     3  Southern Pacific Border
     4  Sierra Mountains
     5  Columbia Plateau
     6  Upper Basin and Range
     7  Lower Basin and Range
     9  Middle Rocky Mountains
    10  Wyoming Basin
    11  Southern Rocky Mountains
    12  Colorado Plateau
    13  Rocky Mountain Piedmont


KUCHLER PLANT ASSOCIATIONS : 
   K005  Mixed conifer forest
   K007  Red fir forest
   K008  Lodgepole pine - subalpine forest
   K010  Ponderosa shrub forest 
   K011  Western ponderosa forest
   K018  Pine - Douglas-fir forest
   K019  Arizona pine forest
   K022  Great Basin pine forest
   K023  Juniper - pinyon woodland
   K024  Juniper steppe woodland
   K029  California mixed evergreen forest
   K033  Chaparral
   K034  Montane chaparral


SAF COVER TYPES : 
   207  Red fir
   210  Interior Douglas-fir
   211  White fir
   218  Lodgepole pine
   220  Rocky Mountain juniper
   237  Interior ponderosa pine
   238  Western juniper
   239  Pinyon - juniper
   243  Sierra Nevada mixed conifer
   244  Pacific ponderosa pine - Douglas-fir
   245  Pacific ponderosa pine
   247  Jefferey pine
   248  Knobcone pine
   249  Canyon live oak


SRM (RANGELAND) COVER TYPES : 
NO-ENTRY


HABITAT TYPES AND PLANT COMMUNITIES : 

Greenleaf manzanita is indicative of open areas having dry,
well-drained, coarse soils, poor site index, and a history of fire
[21,43,44,74].  Greenleaf manzanita is listed as a dominant, codominant,
or indicator species in the following publications:

Plant communities and habitat types in the Lava Beds National Monument,
  California [14]
Natural vegetation of Oregon and Washington [83]
Coniferous forest habitat types of northern Utah [40]
Montane and subalpine forests of the Transverse and Peninsular ranges [56]
Ponderosa pine habitat types as an indicator of site quality in the
Dixie National Forest, Utah [63]
Plant associations of the central Oregon Pumice Zone [64]
Coniferous forest habitat types of central and southern Utah [74]

Related categories for Species: Arctostaphylos patula | Greenleaf Manzanita