DISTRIBUTION AND OCCURRENCE
SPECIES: Clethra alnifolia | Poor Man's Soap 



GENERAL DISTRIBUTION : 
Sweet pepperbush occurs from Florida to east Texas, and north to
southern Maine, southern New Hampshire, Massachusetts, southeastern New
York, and eastern Pennsylvania [13,27].


ECOSYSTEMS : 
   FRES10  White - red - jack pine
   FRES11  Spruce - fir
   FRES12  Longleaf - slash pine
   FRES13  Loblolly - shortleaf pine
   FRES14  Oak - pine
   FRES15  Oak - hickory
   FRES16  Oak - gum - cypress
   FRES18  Maple - beech - birch


STATES : 
     AL  AR  CT  DE  FL  GA  KY  LA  ME  MD
     MA  MS  NH  NJ  NY  NC  OH  PA  RI  SC
     TN  TX  VA  VT  WV


ADMINISTRATIVE UNITS : 
     ACAD  BITH  BLRI  CACO  CAHA  DEWA
     FIIS  FOCA  RICH  ROCR  SHEN


BLM PHYSIOGRAPHIC REGIONS : 
NO-ENTRY


KUCHLER PLANT ASSOCIATIONS : 
   K089  Blackbelt
   K090  Live oak - sea oats
   K091  Cypress savanna
   K093  Great Lakes spruce - fir forest
   K094  Conifer bog
   K095  Great Lakes pine forest
   K096  Northeastern spruce - fir forest
   K097  Southeastern spruce - fir forest
   K099  Maple - basswood forest
   K100  Oak - hickory forest
   K102  Beech - maple forest
   K103  Mixed mesophytic forest
   K104  Appalachian oak forest
   K106  Northern hardwoods
   K108  Northern hardwoods - spruce forest
   K110  Northeastern oak - pine forest
   K111  Oak - hickory - pine forest
   K112  Southern mixed forest
   K113  Southern floodplain forest
   K114  Pocosin
   K115  Sand pine - scrub


SAF COVER TYPES : 
      1  Jack pine
      5  Balsam fir
     12  Black spruce
     13  Black spruce - tamarack
     14  Northern pin oak
     15  Red pine
     20  White pine - northern red oak - maple
     21  Eastern white pine
     22  White pine - hemlock
     23  Eastern hemlock
     24  Hemlock - yellow birch
     25  Sugar maple - beech - yellow birch
     26  Sugar maple - basswood
     27  Sugar maple
     28  Black cherry - maple
     30  Red spruce - yellow birch
     31  Red spruce - sugar maple - beech
     32  Red spruce
     33  Red spruce - balsam fir
     34  Red spruce - Fraser fir
     35  Paper birch - red spruce - balsam fir
     37  Northern white cedar
     38  Tamarack
     40  Post oak - blackjack oak
     42  Bur oak
     43  Bear Oak
     44  Chestnut oak
     45  Pitch pine
     46  Eastern redcedar
     50  Black locust
     51  White pine - chestnut oak
     52  White oak - black oak - northern red oak
     53  White oak
     55  Northern red oak
     57  Yellow poplar
     58  Yellow poplar - eastern hemlock
     59  Yellow poplar - white oak - northern red oak
     60  Beech - sugar maple
     61  River birch - sycamore
     64  Sassafras - persimmon
     65  Pin oak sweetgum
     69  Sand pine
     70  Largeleaf pine
     71  Longleaf pine - scrub oak
     72  Southern scrub oak
     73  Southern redcedar
     74  Cabbage palmetto
     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
     84  Slash pine
     85  Slash pine - hardwood
     87  Sweetgum - yellow poplar
     88  Willow oak - water oak - diamondleaf oak
     89  Live oak
     91  Swamp chestnut oak - cherrybark oak
     92  Sweetgum - willow oak
     96  Overcup oak - water hickory
     97  Atlantic white cedar
     98  Pond pine
    100  Pondcypress
    101  Baldcypress - tupelo
    103  Water tupelo - swamp tupelo
    104  Sweetbay - swamp tupelo - redbay
    108  Red maple
    109  Hawthorn


SRM (RANGELAND) COVER TYPES : 
NO-ENTRY


HABITAT TYPES AND PLANT COMMUNITIES : 
Sweet pepperbush is very seldom a dominant species in plant communities.
It is listed as a dominant shrub in only one area in the Coastal Plain
of Virginia [25].

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