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DISTRIBUTION AND OCCURRENCE

SPECIES: Elaeagnus commutata | Silverberry
GENERAL DISTRIBUTION : Silverberry occurs from Alaska and the Yukon Territory, east to the Great Slave Lake in the Northwest Territories, and south through Canada from British Columbia to Quebec to Minnesota, South Dakota, Colorado, and Utah [50,53,59,60]. ECOSYSTEMS : FRES10 White - red - jack pine FRES11 Spruce - fir FRES19 Aspen - birch FRES23 Fir - spruce FRES28 Western hardwoods FRES36 Mountain grasslands FRES38 Plains grasslands FRES39 Prairie STATES : AK CO ID MN MT NE ND SD UT WY AB BC MB NT ON PQ SK YT ADMINISTRATIVE UNITS : NO-ENTRY BLM PHYSIOGRAPHIC REGIONS : 5 Columbia Plateau 6 Upper Basin and Range 8 Northern Rocky Mountains 9 Middle Rocky Mountains 10 Wyoming Basin 11 Southern Rocky Mountains 12 Colorado Plateau 14 Great Plains 15 Black Hills Uplift 16 Upper Missouri Basin and Broken Lands KUCHLER PLANT ASSOCIATIONS : K063 Foothills prairie K064 Grama - needlegrass - wheatgrass K066 Wheatgrass - needlegrass K067 Wheatgrass - bluestem - needlegrass K074 Bluestem prairie K093 Great Lakes spruce - fir forest K095 Great Lakes pine forest K107 Northern hardwoods - fir forest SAF COVER TYPES : 1 Jack pine 5 Balsam fir 12 Black spruce 13 Black spruce - tamarack 16 Aspen 18 Paper birch 38 Tamarack 107 White spruce 201 White spruce 202 White spruce - paper birch 203 Balsam poplar 204 Black spruce 217 Aspen 235 Cottonwood - willow 251 White spruce - aspen 252 Paper birch 253 Black spruce - white spruce 254 Black spruce - paper birch SRM (RANGELAND) COVER TYPES : NO-ENTRY HABITAT TYPES AND PLANT COMMUNITIES : Silverberry occurs in a variety of habitats including boreal forest, spruce-fir (Picea-Abies), quaking aspen (Populus tremuloides), cottonwood (Populus spp.), willow (Salix spp.), mixed-grass prairie, tallgrass prairie, shrubland, grassland, and riparian [1,3,14,49,60]. It is an indicator of the quaking aspen parkland community type in the Canadian prairie provinces [1,8]. Silverberry occurs in seral communities throughout the Intermountain region. It is a riverine floodplain shrub in narrowleaf cottonwood (P. angustifolia) and black cottonwood (P. trichocarpa) communities of Idaho [49]. It is an incidental riparian type along the Big Hole and Ruby rivers of Montana [11], and may occur as a riparian dominance type in Montana [20]. It is found in riparian communities dominated by willow and poplar (Populus spp.) in Utah [60], and is a member of riparian shrub communities in Idaho and Wyoming [53]. Silverberry is an important species in native mixed-grass prairie of the northern United States and southern Canada. In North Dakota, silverberry is commonly found in shrub-grassland communities dominated by western wheatgrass (Pascopyrum smithii), needlegrass (Stipa spp.), and rough fescue (Festuca scabrella) [3,36,40]. Silverberry is also found in tallgrass prairies of the Great Plains [33,62]. It is found in the rough fescue-Idaho fescue (Festuca idahoensis)-bluebunch wheatgrass (Pseudoroegneria spicata) habitat type of Montana [32]. Silverberry is prevalent in rough fescue-porcupine grass (Stipa spartea) communities of the aspen parkland in central Alberta [4,6], and native fescue grasslands of Saskatchewan [43]. It is a member of the western snowberry (Symphoricarpos occidentalis) community in central Alberta [2]. Silverberry is found in boreal forests of northern Alberta, the Yukon Territory, and Alaska [14,18,56]. In the Yukon Territory, silverberry is a member of a mature white spruce (Picea glauca) forest [18]. In northeastern Alberta, silverberry is an important understory species in white spruce-aspen forests and jack pine (Pinus banksiana) woodlands in upland areas and in black spruce (Picea mariana)-tamarack (Larix laricina) bogs in poorly drained areas [14]. Species not previously mentioned but commonly associated with silverberry in mixed-grass prairies and mountain grasslands include plains cottonwood (Populus deltoides), hackberry (Celtis occidentalis), shrubby cinquefoil (Potentilla fruticosa), fringed sagebrush (Artemisia frigida), creeping juniper (Juniperus horizontalis), chokecherry (Prunus virginiana), hawthorn (Crataegus spp.), Wood's rose (Rosa woodsii), Saskatoon serviceberry (Amelanchier alnifolia), smooth brome (Bromus inermis), quackgrass (Elytrigia repens), little bluestem (Schizachyrium scoparium), blue grama (Bouteloua gracilis), needle-and-thread grass (Stipa comata), green needlegrass (S. viridula), witchgrass panic (Panicum capillare), Kentucky bluegrass (Poa pratensis), Sandberg bluegrass (P. secunda), plains muhly (Muhlenbergia cuspidata), prairie junegrass (Koeleria macrantha), silver-leaf scurf pea (Psoralea argophylla), northern bedstraw (Galium boreale), Canada goldenrod (Solidago canadensis), and silky lupine (Lupinus sericeus) [3,32,36,39,40].

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