DISTRIBUTION AND OCCURRENCE
SPECIES: Callicarpa americana | American Beautyberry 



GENERAL DISTRIBUTION : 
American beautyberry is widely distributed throughout the Atlantic and
Gulf coastal plains, from Virginia to Florida and west to Arkansas,
Oklahoma, and Texas.  It also occurs in the West Indies [9,30].  It is
cultivated in Hawaii [37].


ECOSYSTEMS : 
   FRES12  Longleaf - slash pine
   FRES13  Loblolly - shortleaf pine
   FRES14  Oak - pine
   FRES15  Oak - hickory
   FRES16  Oak - gum - cypress


STATES : 
     AL  FL  GA  HI  LA  MS  NC  SC  TX  VA


ADMINISTRATIVE UNITS : 
     BICY  BITH  BLRI  BUFF  CAHA  CALO
     CHCH  COLO  COSW  CUIS  EVER  FOCA
     GRSM  GUIS  HOBE  HOSP  JELA  NATR


BLM PHYSIOGRAPHIC REGIONS : 
NO-ENTRY


KUCHLER PLANT ASSOCIATIONS : 
   K090  Live oak - sea oats
   K091  Cypress savanna
   K100  Oak - hickory forest
   K111  Oak - hickory - pine forest
   K112  Southern mixed forest
   K113  Southern floodplain forest
   K114  Pocosin


SAF COVER TYPES : 
    70  Longleaf pine
    75  Shortleaf pine
    76  Shortleaf pine -oak
    78  Virginia pine - oak
    79  Virginia pine
    80  Loblolly pine - shortleaf pine
    81  Loblolly pine
    82  Loblolly pine - hardwood
    83  Longleaf pine - slash pine
    85  Slash pine - hardwood
    87  Sweetgum - yellow poplar
    91  Swamp chestnut oak - cherrybark oak
    98  Pond pine
   100  Pond cypress
   101  Baldcypress
   102  Baldcypress - tupelo
   103  Water tupelo - swamp tupelo
   104  Sweetbay - swamp tupelo - redbay


SRM (RANGELAND) COVER TYPES : 
NO-ENTRY


HABITAT TYPES AND PLANT COMMUNITIES : 
Common overstory associates of American beautyberry include sweetgum
(Liquidambar styraciflua), sweetbay (Persea borbonia), flowering dogwood
(Cornus florida), blackgum (Nyssa sylvatica var. biflora), hickory
(Carya spp.), and oak (Quercus spp.).  Understory associates include
sweet pepperbush (Clethra alnifolia), southern bayberry (Myrica
cerifera), hurrahbush (Lyonia lucida), greenbrier (Smilax spp.), and
fetterbush (Leucothoe racemosa) [18,24,33,34].

Related categories for Species: Callicarpa americana | American Beautyberry