DISTRIBUTION AND OCCURRENCE
SPECIES: Gaultheria shallon | Salal 



GENERAL DISTRIBUTION : 
Salal grows along the Pacific Coast inland to the western slope of the
Cascades and Coast Ranges [67].  It occurs from southeastern Alaska and
central British Columbia southward to southern California
[28,67,102,130].


ECOSYSTEMS : 
   FRES20  Douglas-fir
   FRES24  Hemlock - Sitka spruce
   FRES27  Redwood
   FRES28  Western hardwoods


STATES : 
     AK  CA  OR  WA  BC


ADMINISTRATIVE UNITS : 
     MORA  NOCA  OLYM  PORE  REDW  SAJH


BLM PHYSIOGRAPHIC REGIONS : 
   1  Northern Pacific Border
   2  Cascade Mountains
   3  Southern Pacific Border


KUCHLER PLANT ASSOCIATIONS : 
   K001  Spruce - cedar - hemlock forest
   K002  Cedar - hemlock - Douglas-fir forest
   K006  Redwood forest
   K029  California mixed evergreen


SAF COVER TYPES : 
   221  Red alder
   224  Western hemlock
   225  Western hemlock - Sitka spruce
   226  Coastal true fir - hemlock
   227  Western redcedar - western hemlock
   228  Western redcedar
   229  Pacific Douglas-fir
   230  Douglas-fir - western hemlock
   231  Port Orford cedar
   232  Redwood
   234  Douglas-fir - tanoak - Pacific madrone


SRM (RANGELAND) COVER TYPES : 
NO-ENTRY


HABITAT TYPES AND PLANT COMMUNITIES : 
Salal grows as an understory dominant in a variety of lowland to
montane, coniferous or mixed evergreen forests.  Common overstory
dominants include Douglas-fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii), western hemlock
(Tsuga heterophylla), Sitka spruce (Picea sitchensis), lodgepole pine
(Pinus contorta), western redcedar (Thuja plicata), tanoak (Lithocarpus
densiflorus), and Pacific silver fir (Abies amabilis).  Evergreen
huckleberry (Vaccinium ovatum), red huckleberry (V. parvifolium), Sadler
oak (Quercus sadleriana), rhododendron (Rhododendron spp.), vine maple
(Acer circinatum), oceanspray (Holodiscus discolor), bracken fern
(Pteridium aquilinum), dwarf Oregon grape (Mahonia nervosa), salmonberry
(Rubus spectabilis), California hazel (Corylus cornuta), western
swordfern (Polystichum munitum), deerfern (Blechnum spicant), threeleaf
foamflower (Tiarella unifoliata) are common understory codominants.
Salal is listed as a dominant or indicator in the following
publications:

Forest types of the North Cascades National Park Service Complex [1]
Description and classification of the forests of the upper Illinois
  River drainage of southwestern Oregon [4]
Forest associations and secondary sucession in the southern Oregon
  coast Range [8]
Plant communities and environmental interrelationships in a portion of
  the Tilamook Burn, northwestern Oregon [9]      
Classification of montane forest community types in the Cedar River
  drainage of western Washington, U.S.A. [26]
Vegetation of the Douglas-fir region [34]
Plant association and management guide for the western hemlock zone: Mt.
  Hood National Forest [51]
Plant association and management guide for the Pacific silver fir zone,
  Mt. Hood and Willamette National Forests [60]
Plant association and management guide: Willamette National Forest [62]
Indicator plants of British Columbia [79]
Biogeoclimatic ecosystem classification of British Columbia [108]

Related categories for Species: Gaultheria shallon | Salal