DISTRIBUTION AND OCCURRENCE
SPECIES: Comptonia peregrina | Sweetfern 



GENERAL DISTRIBUTION : 
Sweetfern occurs from New Brunswick south through the New England states
to the northern tip of Georgia and west through northern Illinois,
Indiana, and the Great Lakes states to eastern Saskatchewan and North
Dakota [8].  Comptonia peregrina var. asplenifolia occurs from Long
Island, New York, south to Virginia [13].


ECOSYSTEMS : 
   FRES10  White - red - jack pine
   FRES11  Spruce - fir
   FRES14  Oak - pine
   FRES18  Maple - beech - birch
   FRES19  Aspen - birch


STATES : 
     CT  DE  GA  IL  IN  IA  KY  ME  MD  MA
     MI  MN  NH  NJ  NC  ND  OH  PA  RI  SC
     TN  VT  VA  WV  WI  MB  NB  NS  ON  PE
     PQ  SK


ADMINISTRATIVE UNITS : 
     ACAD  BLRI  CACO  CATO  DEWA  FIIS
     GATE  INDU  PIRO  SHEN  VOYA


BLM PHYSIOGRAPHIC REGIONS : 
NO-ENTRY


KUCHLER PLANT ASSOCIATIONS : 
   K093  Great Lakes spruce - fir forest
   K095  Great Lakes pine forest
   K096  Northeastern spruce - fir forest
   K099  Maple - basswood forest
   K102  Beech - maple forest
   K103  Mixed mesophytic forest
   K104  Appalachian oak forest
   K108  Northern hardwoods - spruce forest
   K110  Northeastern oak - pine forest
   K111  Oak - hickory - pine forest


SAF COVER TYPES : 
     1  Jack pine
     5  Balsam fir
    15  Red pine
    16  Aspen
    17  Pin cherry
    18  Paper birch
    19  Gray birch - red maple
    20  White pine - northern red oak - red maple
    21  Eastern white pine
    25  Sugar maple - beech - yellow birch
    28  Black cherry - maple
    32  Red spruce
    33  Red spruce - balsam fir
    35  Paper birch - red spruce - balsam fir
    43  Bear oak
    45  Pitch pine
    52  White oak - black oak - northern red oak
    53  White oak
    55  Northern red oak
   107  White spruce
   108  Red maple
   109  Hawthorn
   110  Black oak


SRM (RANGELAND) COVER TYPES : 
NO-ENTRY


HABITAT TYPES AND PLANT COMMUNITIES : 
Plant associates of sweetfern include prairie willow (Salix humilis),
American hazel (Corylus americana), beaked hazel (C. coruta),
serviceberry (Amelanchier spp.), hawthorn (Crataegus spp.), New Jersey
tea (Ceanothus americanus), lowbush blueberry, bracken fern (Pteridium
aquilinum), ricegrass (Oryzopsis spp.), hawkweed (Hieracium spp.),
hairgrass (Deschampsia flexuosa), wintergreen (Gaultheria procumbens),
goldenrod (Solidago spp.) sunflower (Helianthus spp.), coreopsis
(Coreopsis spp.), yellow sedge (Carex pensylvanica), and little bluestem
(Schizachyrium scoparium) [1,2,13,30].

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