DISTRIBUTION AND OCCURRENCE
SPECIES: Corylus americana | American Hazel 



GENERAL DISTRIBUTION : 
American hazel occurs from Maine west to Saskatchewan, south to eastern
Oklahoma, east to Georgia, and north through New England [5,17,31].


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


STATES : 
     AL  AR  GA  IL  IN  IA  KS  KY  LA  ME
     MD  MA  MI  MN  MS  MO  NH  NJ  NY  NC
     ND  OH  OK  PA  RI  SC  SD  TN  VT  VA
     WV  WI  MB  ON  PQ  SK


ADMINISTRATIVE UNITS : 
     ALPO  BISO  BLRI  BUFF  CATO  CUGA
     CUVA  DEWA  EFMO  FODO  GWMP  GRSM
     HOSP  INDU  MACA  MANA  MORR  NATR
     NERI  OBRI  PRWI  ROCR  SARA  SHEN
     SHIL  VOYA  WICR


BLM PHYSIOGRAPHIC REGIONS : 
   14  Great Plains


KUCHLER PLANT ASSOCIATIONS : 
   K081  Oak savanna
   K093  Great Lakes spruce - fir forest
   K095  Great Lakes pine forest
   K099  Maple - basswood forest
   K100  Oak - hickory forest
   K101  Elm - ash forest
   K103  Mixed mesophytic forest
   K104  Appalachian oak forest
   K106  Northern hardwoods
   K108  Northern hardwoods - spruce forest
   K100  Oak - hickory forest
   K111  Oak - hickory - pine forest
   K112  Southern mixed forest


SAF COVER TYPES : 
     1  Jack pine
     5  Balsam fir
    12  Black spruce
    13  Black spruce - tamarack
    14  Northern pin oak
    15  Red pine
    16  Aspen
    17  Pin cherry
    18  Paper birch
    20  White pine - northern red oak - red 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
    30  Red spruce - yellow birch
    31  Red spruce - sugar maple - beech
    32  Red spruce
    35  Paper birch - red spruce - balsam fir
    39  Black ash - American elm - red maple
    40  Post oak - blackjack oak
    42  Bur oak
    43  Bear oak
    44  Chestnut oak
    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
    62  Silver maple - American elm
    76  Shortleaf pine - oak
    78  Virginia pine - oak
   108  Red maple
   110  Black oak


SRM (RANGELAND) COVER TYPES : 
NO-ENTRY


HABITAT TYPES AND PLANT COMMUNITIES : 
American hazel is a dominant or codominant shrub in maple-basswood
(Acer-Tilia) forests of Wisconsin and Minnesota [12].  In Nebraska,
American hazel is a dominant shrub in the ecotone of forest and praire
[1,33].  It is a dominant understory species in jack pine (Pinus
banksiana), paper birch (Betula papyrifera), trembling aspen (Populus
tremuloides), and nothern pin oak (Quercus ellipsoidalis) communities of
northern Wisconsin [4].

Related categories for Species: Corylus americana | American Hazel