DISTRIBUTION AND OCCURRENCE
SPECIES: Cephalanthus occidentalis | Buttonbush 



GENERAL DISTRIBUTION : 
Buttonbush extends from southern Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Quebec, and
Ontario south through southern Florida and west through the eastern
half of the Great Plains States [8,16].  Scattered populations exist in
New Mexico, Arizona, and the central valley of California [28].  The
variety californicus is found in California; the variety pubescens is
found from southeast Virginia to Georgia and Texas, southern Ontario,
Indiana, Illinois, and Oklahoma [8].  Distribution of the variety
angustifolius was not listed. 


ECOSYSTEMS : 
   FRES15  Oak - hickory
   FRES16  Oak - gum - cypress
   FRES17  Elm - ash - cottonwood
   FRES18  Maple - beech - birch
   FRES32  Texas savanna
   FRES41  Wet grasslands
   FRES42  Annual grasslands


STATES : 
     AL  AZ  AR  CA  CT  DE  FL  GA  IL  IN
     IA  KS  KY  LA  ME  MA  MI  MN  MS  MO
     NE  NH  NJ  NM  NC  OH  OK  PA  RI  SC
     TN  TX  VT  VA  WV  WI  NB  NS  ON  PQ
     MEXICO


ADMINISTRATIVE UNITS : 
     ALPO  AMIS  BIBE  BICY  BISO  BITH
     BLRI  BUFF  CACO  CAHA  CATO  COLO
     CUGA  COSW  CUIS  CUVA  DEWA  EFMO
     EVER  FIIS  FOCA  FODO  GATE  GWCA
     GWMP  GRSM  GUIS  HOBE  INDU  JELA
     LAMR  MACA  MANA  NATR  NERI  OBRI
     OZAR  PAIS  PRWI  RICH  ROCR  SAGU
     SARA  SHEN  SHIL  VAFO  WHIS


BLM PHYSIOGRAPHIC REGIONS : 
    3  Southern Pacific Border
    7  Lower Basin and Range
   12  Colorado Plateau
   13  Rocky Mountain Piedmont
   14  Great Plains


KUCHLER PLANT ASSOCIATIONS : 
   K030  California oakwoods
   K049  Tule marshes
   K080  Marl - Everglades
   K091  Cypress savanna
   K092  Everglades
   K098  Northern floodplain forest
   K099  Maple - basswood forest
   K100  Oak - hickory forest
   K101  Elm - ash forest
   K102  Beech - maple forest
   K103  Mixed mesophytic forest
   K104  Appalachian oak forest
   K105  Mangrove
   K106  Northern hardwoods
   K110  Northeastern oak - pine forest
   K112  Southern mixed forest
   K113  Southern floodplain forest
   K114  Pocosin


SAF COVER TYPES : 
    14  Northern pin oak
    16  Aspen
    19  Grey birch - red maple
    26  Sugar maple - basswood
    27  Sugar maple
    28  Black cherry - maple
    39  Black ash - American elm - red maple
    43  Bear oak
    63  Cottonwood
    64  Sassafras - persimmon
    65  Pin oak - sweet gum
    74  Cabbage palmetto
    87  Sweet gum - yellow-poplar
    88  Willow oak - water oak - diamondleaf oak
    89  Live oak
    91  Swamp chestnut oak - cherrybark oak
    92  Sweetgum - willow oak
    93  Sugarberry - American elm - green ash
    94  Sycamore - sweetgum - American elm
    95  Black willow
    96  Overcup oak - water hickory
   100  Pondcypress
   101  Baldcypress
   102  Baldcypress - tupelo
   103  Water tupelo - swamp tupelo
   104  Sweetbay - swamp tupelo - redbay
   105  Tropical hardwoods
   106  Mangrove
   108  Red maple
   235  Cottonwood - willow


SRM (RANGELAND) COVER TYPES : 
NO-ENTRY


HABITAT TYPES AND PLANT COMMUNITIES : 
Buttonbush is a wetland shrub common to most swamps and floodplains of
eastern and southern North America [8,28].  It is listed as a component
of the following community types:

Area                         Classification       Authority

CA: Sacramento Valley        riparian cts         Conard & others 1977
United States                wetland cts          Cowardin & others 1979

Related categories for Species: Cephalanthus occidentalis | Buttonbush