DISTRIBUTION AND OCCURRENCE
SPECIES: Chimaphila menziesii | Little Prince's Pine 



GENERAL DISTRIBUTION : 
Little prince's pine is distributed from British Columbia south to the
San Jacinto Mountains in southern California and east to Idaho, Montana,
and Utah [16,17,22,24,25,40].


ECOSYSTEMS : 
   FRES20  Douglas-fir
   FRES21  Ponderosa pine
   FRES22  Western white pine
   FRES23  Fir - spruce
   FRES24  Hemlock - Sitka spruce
   FRES25  Larch
   FRES26  Lodgepole pine
   FRES27  Redwood


STATES : 
     CA  ID  MT  NV  OR  UT  WA  BC


ADMINISTRATIVE UNITS : 
     BIHO  CRLA  LAVO  MORA  NOCA  OLYM
     WHIS  YOSE


BLM PHYSIOGRAPHIC REGIONS : 
    1  Northern Pacific Border
    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
   12  Colorado Plateau


KUCHLER PLANT ASSOCIATIONS : 
   K001  Spruce - cedar - hemlock forest
   K002  Cedar - hemlock - Douglas-fir forest
   K003  Silver fir - Douglas-fir forest
   K004  Fir - hemlock forest
   K005  Mixed conifer forest
   K006  Redwood forest
   K007  Red fir forest
   K008  Lodgepole pine - subalpine forest
   K010  Ponderosa shrub forest
   K011  Western ponderosa forest
   K012  Douglas-fir forest
   K013  Cedar - hemlock - pine forest
   K014  Grand fir - Douglas-fir forest
   K015  Western spruce - fir forest


SAF COVER TYPES : 
   205  Mountain hemlock
   206  Engelmann spruce - subalpine fir
   207  Red fir
   208  Whitebark pine
   210  Interior Douglas-fir
   211  White fir
   212  Western larch
   213  Grand fir
   215  Western white pine
   218  Lodgepole pine
   223  Sitka spruce
   224  Western hemlock
   225  Western hemlock - Sitka spruce
   226  Coastal true fir - hemlock
   227  Western redcedar - western hemlock
   228  Western redcedar
   229  Pacific Douglas-fir
   230  Douglas-fir - western hemlock
   231  Port-Orford-cedar
   232  Redwood
   234  Douglas-fir - tanoak - Pacific madrone
   237  Interior ponderosa pine
   238  Western juniper
   243  Sierra Nevada mixed conifer
   244  Pacific ponderosa pine - Douglas-fir
   245  Pacific ponderosa pine
   247  Jeffrey pine
   256  California mixed subalpine


SRM (RANGELAND) COVER TYPES : 
NO-ENTRY


HABITAT TYPES AND PLANT COMMUNITIES : 
Little prince's pine occurs in coniferous forests throughout its range
but is not listed as a dominant or codominant understory species in
available publications.  In addition to tree species already mentioned,
little prince's pine also occurs under noble fir (Abies procera), Washoe
pine (Pinus washoensis), sugar pine (P. lambertiana), incense-cedar
(Libocedrus decurrens), and Alaska-cedar (Chamaecyparis nootkatensis)
[1,12,15,20,29].

Some species commonly associated with little prince's pine include Rocky
Mountain maple (Acer glabrum), Pacific yew (Taxus brevifolia), Saskatoon
serviceberry (Amelanchier alnifolia), honeysuckle (Lonicera spp.),
currant (Ribes spp.), baldhip rose (Rosa gymnocarpa), huckleberry
(Vaccinium spp.), salal (Gaultheria shallon), twinflower (Linnaea
borealis), queencup beadlily (Clintonia uniflora), sweet-scented
bedstraw (Galium trifolium), threeleaf foamflower (Tiarella trifoliata),
oneleaf foamflower (T. unifoliata), starry Solomon-seal (Smilacina
stellata), Pacific trillium (Trillium ovatum), violet (Viola spp.),
white hawkweed (Hieracium albiflorum), whitevein shinleaf (Pyrola
picta), sidebells shinleaf (P. secunda), western rattlesnake plantain
(Goodyera oblongifolia), American trailplant (Adenocaulon bicolor), and
Ross' sedge (Carex rossii) [5,23,27,37,38].

Related categories for Species: Chimaphila menziesii | Little Prince's Pine