DISTRIBUTION AND OCCURRENCE
SPECIES: Cercis canadensis | Eastern Redbud 



GENERAL DISTRIBUTION : 
The range of eastern redbud extends from New Jersey and Pennsylvania
west to southern Michigan and southeastern Nebraska; south to eastern
Texas; and east to central Florida [34].  Its natural range appears to
exclude the Gulf and Atlantic Coastal Plains [16].  It is extinct from
one locality in extreme southern Ontario [34].

Texas redbud occurs from southern Oklahoma south to eastern, southern,
and Trans-Pecos Texas; extreme southeastern New Mexico; and northern
Mexico.  In Mexico, its range extends from eastern Chihuahua and Coahila
east to Tamps and south to San Luis Potosi and Hidalgo [34].


ECOSYSTEMS : 
   FRES13  Loblolly - shortleaf pine
   FRES14  Oak - pine
   FRES15  Oak - hickory
   FRES16  Oak - gum - cypress
   FRES17  Elm - ash - cottonwood
   FRES18  Maple - beech - birch
   FRES19  Aspen - birch
   FRES32  Texas savanna
   FRES33  Southwestern shrubsteppe
   FRES38  Plains grasslands
   FRES39  Prairie


STATES : 
     AL  AR  DE  FL  GA  IL  IN  KS  KY  LA
     MI  MS  MO  NE  NC  NJ  OH  OK  PA  SC
     TN  TX  VA  WV  MEXICO


ADMINISTRATIVE UNITS : 
     ANTI  BIBE  BISO  BITH  BLRI  BUFF
     CAMO  CHCH  COLO  COSW  CUGA  CUIS
     CUVA  FOCA  FODO  GWCA  GWMP  GRSM
     HOBE  HOSP  MACA  MANA  NATR  NERI
     OBRI  PRWI  OZAR  RICH  SHEN  SHIL
     VAFO  WICR


BLM PHYSIOGRAPHIC REGIONS : 
   13  Rocky Mountain Piedmont
   14  Great Plains


KUCHLER PLANT ASSOCIATIONS : 
   K082  Mosaic of K074 and K100
   K084  Cross Timbers
   K089  Black Belt
   K099  Maple - basswood forest
   K100  Oak - hickory forest
   K101  Elm - ash forest
   K102  Beech - maple forest
   K103  Mixed mesophytic forest
   K104  Appalachian oak forest
   K106  Northern hardwoods
   K110  Northeastern oak - pine forest
   K111  Oak - hickory - pine forest
   K112  Southern mixed forest


SAF COVER TYPES : 
    25  Sugar maple - beech - yellow birch
    26  Sugar maple - basswood
    27  Sugar maple
    40  Post oak - blackjack oak
    42  Bur oak
    44  Chestnut oak
    46  Eastern redcedar
    52  White oak - black oak - northern red oak
    53  White oak
    55  Northern red oak
    59  Yellow-poplar - white oak - northern red oak
    60  Beech - sugar maple
    64  Sassafras - persimmon
    65  Pin oak - sweetgum
    78  Virginia pine - oak
    79  Virginia pine
    80  Loblolly pine - shortleaf pine
    81  Loblolly pine
    87  Sweetgum - yellow-poplar
    89  Live oak
   110  Black oak


SRM (RANGELAND) COVER TYPES : 
NO-ENTRY


HABITAT TYPES AND PLANT COMMUNITIES : 
Eastern redbud occurs in the open or as an understory tree common along
the edge of woods in a variety of habitats [11,53].  In Kentucky, it
occurs on exposed limestone cliffs in eastern redcedar (Juniperus
virginiana) communities [12].

It very commonly occurs with flowering dogwood (Cornus florida) [54].

Related categories for Species: Cercis canadensis | Eastern Redbud