DISTRIBUTION AND OCCURRENCE
SPECIES: Cornus alternifolia | Alternate-Leaf Dogwood 



GENERAL DISTRIBUTION : 
Alternate-leaf dogwood occurs from Newfoundland through the New England
States to the Florida Panhandle.  It extends west to the northern shores
of Lake Superior and eastern Minnesota and south through the Midwest
States to Arkansas and Mississippi [6,21,27].


ECOSYSTEMS : 
   FRES10  White - red - jack pine
   FRES11  Spruce - fir
   FRES13  Loblolly - shortleaf pine
   FRES14  Oak - pine
   FRES15  Oak - hickory
   FRES17  Elm - ash - cottonwood
   FRES18  Maple - beech - birch
   FRES19  Aspen - birch


STATES : 
     AL  AR  CT  DE  FL  GA  IL  IN  IA  KY
     ME  MD  MA  MI  MN  MS  MO  NH  NJ  NY
     NC  OH  PA  RI  SC  TN  VT  VA  WV  WI
     MB  NB  NF  ON  PQ  NS


ADMINISTRATIVE UNITS : 
     ACAD  ALPO  BISO  BITH  BLRI  BUFF
     CATO  CUGA  DEWA  EFMO  GRSM  INDU
     ISRO  JOFL  NERI  OBRI  PIRO  SHEN
     SLBE  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
   K097  Southeastern spruce - fir forest
   K100  Oak - hickory forest
   K101  Elm - ash forest
   K102  Beech - maple forest
   K103  Mixed mesophytic forest
   K104  Appalachian oak forest
   K106  Northern hardwoods
   K107  Northern hardwoods - fir forest
   K108  Northern hardwoods - spruce forest
   K110  Northeastern oak - pine forest
   K111  Oak - hickory - pine forest
   K112  Southern mixed forest


SAF COVER TYPES : 
     1  Jack pine
     5  Balsam fir
    16  Aspen
    17  Pin cherry
    21  Eastern white pine
    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
    39  Black ash - American elm - red maple
    42  Bur oak
    46  Eastern redcedar
    52  White oak - black oak - northern red oak
    53  White oak
    57  Yellow-poplar
    58  Yellow-poplar - eastern hemlock
    60  Beech - sugar maple
    62  Silver maple - American elm
    70  Longleaf pine
    80  Loblolly pine - shortleaf pine
    81  Loblolly pine
    82  Loblolly pine - hardwood
    93  Sugarberry - American elm - green ash


SRM (RANGELAND) COVER TYPES : 
NO-ENTRY


HABITAT TYPES AND PLANT COMMUNITIES : 
Alternate-leaf dogwood is an understory dominant in the northeastern
United States and in the sugar maple (Acer saccharum) forest of the
Great Lakes region [8,16,18].

Common associates of alternate-leaf dogwood include chokecherry (Prunus
virginiana), American hazel (Corylus americana), hazelnut (C. cornuta),
mountain maple (Acer spicatum), striped maple (A. pennsylvanicum), black
cherry (Prunus serotina), serviceberry (Amelanchier canadensis),
mountain-laurel (Kalmia latifolia), huckleberries (Vaccinium spp), and
dogwoods (Cornus spp.) [2,18,21].

Related categories for Species: Cornus alternifolia | Alternate-Leaf Dogwood