DISTRIBUTION AND OCCURRENCE
SPECIES: Gaylussacia baccata | Black Huckleberry 



GENERAL DISTRIBUTION : 
Black huckleberry occurs in eastern Canada and the northeastern,
north-central, and southeastern United States.  Its range extends from
Newfoundland west to Manitoba; south through Iowa to Louisiana; east to
Georgia; and north to New England [4,5,41].  Disjunct populations occur
in the Ouachita Mountains in Arkansas [22].


ECOSYSTEMS : 
   FRES10  White - red - jack pine
   FRES11  Spruce - fir
   FRES13  Loblolly - shortleaf pine
   FRES14  Oak - pine
   FRES15  Oak - hickory


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


ADMINISTRATIVE UNITS : 
     ACAD  ALPO  APIS  ASIS  BLRI  CACO
     CATO  COLO  CUGA  CUVA  DEWA  FIIS
     GATE  GWMP  GRSM  INDU  MACA  NERI
     OBRI  PIRO  ROCR  SHEN  SLBE  VOYA


BLM PHYSIOGRAPHIC REGIONS : 
NO-ENTRY


KUCHLER PLANT ASSOCIATIONS : 
   K081  Oak savanna
   K094  Conifer bog
   K095  Great Lakes pine forest
   K100  Oak - hickory forest
   K104  Appalachian oak forest
   K110  Northeastern oak - pine forest
   K111  Oak - hickory - pine forest


SAF COVER TYPES : 
     1  Jack pine
    12  Black spruce
    13  Black spruce - tamarack
    14  Northern pin oak
    15  Red pine
    20  White pine - northern red oak - red maple
    21  Eastern white pine
    38  Tamarack
    43  Bear oak
    44  Chestnut oak
    45  Pitch pine
    51  White pine - chestnut oak
    52  White oak - black oak - northern red oak
    75  Shortleaf pine
    76  Shortleaf pine - oak
    78  Virginia pine - oak
    79  Virginia pine
   108  Red maple
   110  Black oak


SRM (RANGELAND) COVER TYPES : 
NO-ENTRY


HABITAT TYPES AND PLANT COMMUNITIES : 
Black huckleberry occurs in upland pine (Pinus spp.), oak (Quercus
spp.), and mixed pine-oak forests, savannas, and barrens
[1,9,19,24,37,53,54].  It is native to dwarf pitch pine (Pinus
rigida)-oak forests of the New Jersey pine barrens [17].  Black
huckleberry is an indicator plant of northern savanna, a forest-prairie
transition community in Minnesota and Wisconsin [24].  Black huckleberry
occurs in black oak (Q. velutina) savannas in Indiana [37].

Black huckleberry is commonly present or dominant in peatland bog,
raised bog, and carr communities [11,14,28,40].  It is present in the
lower shrub layer of a wetland shrub community in New York dominated by
common mountain-holly (Nemopanthus mucronatus) and highbush cranberry
(Vaccinium corymbosum) [28].

Black huckleberry frequently occurs with other ericaceous shrubs
including low sweet blueberry (V. angustifolium), hillside blueberry (V.
pallidum), mountain-laurel (Kalmia latifolia), sheep-laurel (Kalmia
angustifolia), wintergreen (Gaultheria procumbens), bearberry
(Arctostaphylos uva-ursi), rhododendrons (Rhododendron spp.), and
dangleberry (Gaylussacia frondosa) [1,9,34,40,54].

Other plant associates not previously mentioned include sweetfern
(Comptonia peregrina), chokecherry (Prunus virginiana), sumac (Rhus
spp.), flowering dogwood (Cornus florida), and eastern hophornbeam
(Ostrya virginiana) [19].

Black huckleberry is listed as a dominant, codominant, or indicator
species in the following publications:

1.  The ecology of peat bogs of the glaciated northeastern United States: a
      community profile [11]
2.  Community classification of the vascular vegetation of a New
      Hampshire peatland [14]
3.  A field guide to eastern forests: North America [24] 
4.  Ecological communities of New York State [40] 
5.  The ecology of the rocky heathlands of western Nova Scotia [47] 
6.  Vegetation of the Great Smoky Mountains [54]

Related categories for Species: Gaylussacia baccata | Black Huckleberry