DISTRIBUTION AND OCCURRENCE
SPECIES: Ledum groenlandicum | Bog Labrador Tea 



GENERAL DISTRIBUTION : 
Bog Labrador tea is distributed throughout Alaska, Canada, and
Greenland.  It occurs south through New England, the northern parts of
the Lake States, northern Idaho, and western Washington and Oregon
[6,8,20,22].


ECOSYSTEMS : 
   FRES10  White - red - jack pine
   FRES11  Spruce - fir
   FRES18  Maple - beech - birch
   FRES19  Aspen - birch
   FRES20  Douglas-fir
   FRES23  Fir - spruce
   FRES24  Hemlock - Sitka spruce
   FRES25  Larch
   FRES26  Lodgepole pine
   FRES44  Alpine


STATES : 
     CT  ID  ME  MA  MI  MN  MT  NH  NJ  NY
     OH  OR  PA  VT  WA  WI  AB  BC  MB  NF
     NT  NS  ON  PE  PQ  SK  YT


ADMINISTRATIVE UNITS : 
     ACAD  APIS  DEWA  GLBA  ISRO  LACL
     MORA  NOCA  OLYM  PIRO  SLBE  VOYA
     WRST  YUCH


BLM PHYSIOGRAPHIC REGIONS : 
    1  Northern Pacific Border
    2  Cascade Mountains
    8  Northern Rocky Mountains


KUCHLER PLANT ASSOCIATIONS : 
   K001  Spruce - cedar - hemlock forest
   K002  Cedar - hemlock - Douglas-fir forest
   K004  Fir - hemlock forest
   K008  Lodgepole pine - subalpine forest
   K015  Western spruce - fir forest
   K093  Great Lakes spruce - fir forest
   K094  Conifer bog
   K095  Great Lakes pine forest
   K096  Northeastern spruce - fir forest
   K108  Northern hardwoods - spruce forest


SAF COVER TYPES : 
     1  Jack pine
     5  Balsam fir
    12  Black spruce
    13  Black spruce - tamarack
    38  Tamarack
   107  White spruce
   201  White spruce
   202  White spruce - paper birch
   204  Black spruce
   205  Mountain hemlock
   206  Engelmann spruce - subalpine fir
   218  Lodgepole pine
   224  Western hemlock
   225  Western hemlock - Sitka spruce
   227  Western redcedar - western hemlock
   228  Western redcedar
   251  White spruce - aspen
   253  Black spruce - white spruce
   254  Black spruce -  paper birch


SRM (RANGELAND) COVER TYPES : 
NO-ENTRY


HABITAT TYPES AND PLANT COMMUNITIES : 
Bog Labrador tea is dominant or codominant in a variety of habitats
within its range.  It may occur as an understory component in open or
closed forest habitats, primarily with black or white spruce (Picea
mariana, P. glauca).  Bog Labrador tea can also dominate or codominate
in dwarf shrub types, bogs, muskegs, or open tundra [2,45].  Associated
overstory and understory species of bog Labrador tea include low sweet
blueberry (Vaccinium angustifolium), chokecherry (Prunus virginiana),
serviceberry (Amelanchier alnifolia), bog birch (Betula glandulosa), bog
blueberry (V. uliginosum), mountain cranberry (V.  vitis-idaea),
leatherleaf (Chamaedaphne calyculata), bog laurel (Kalmia polifolia),
feathermoss (Pleurozium schreberi), lichens (Cladonia spp.), and
sphagnum mosses (Sphagnum spp.) [1,13,17,23].

The following publications lists bog Labrador tea as a dominant or
codominant species:

Old-growth forests of the Canadian Rocky Mountain National Parks [1]
Alpine and high subalpine plant communities of the North Cascade Range,
  Washington and British Columbia [12]
Classification, description, and dynamics of plant communities after 
  fire in the taiga of interior Alaska [17]
Preliminary forest plant associations of the of the Stikine Area, 
  Tongas National Forest [42]
The Alaskan vegetation classification [45]

Related categories for Species: Ledum groenlandicum | Bog Labrador Tea