DISTRIBUTION AND OCCURRENCE
SPECIES: Lyonia ligustrina | Maleberry 



GENERAL DISTRIBUTION : 
Maleberry occurs in the eastern United States.  The range of the typical
variety extends from Maine south in the Appalachian Mountains, Piedmont,
and Atlantic Coastal Plain to Virginia, and further south in the
mountains and Piedmont to northern Georgia and Alabama.  Lyonia
ligustrina var. foliosiflora occurs on the Atlantic and Gulf coastal
plains from southeast Virginia south to central Florida and west to
eastern Texas and southeastern Oklahoma.  It also occurs in southern and
central Arkansas.  The ranges of the two varieties overlap slightly in
southeastern Virginia, North and South Carolina, Georgia, northern
Alabama, and Tennessee [14].


ECOSYSTEMS : 
   FRES11  Spruce - fir
   FRES12  Longleaf - slash pine
   FRES13  Loblolly - shortleaf pine
   FRES14  Oak - pine
   FRES15  Oak - hickory
   FRES16  Oak - gum - cypress
   FRES18  Maple - beech - birch


STATES : 
     AL  AR  CT  DE  FL  GA  KY  LA  ME  MD
     MA  MS  NH  NJ  NY  NC  OH  OK  PA  RI
     SC  TN  TX  VT  VA  WV


ADMINISTRATIVE UNITS : 
     BISO  BITH  BLRI  CACO  CAHA  CUIS
     DEWA  FIIS  GWMP  GRSM  HOSP  NERI
     OBRI  PRWI  RICH  ROCR  SHEN


BLM PHYSIOGRAPHIC REGIONS : 
NO-ENTRY


KUCHLER PLANT ASSOCIATIONS : 
   K091  Cypress savanna
   K094  Conifer bog
   K106  Northern hardwoods
   K111  Oak - hickory - pine forest
   K112  Southern mixed forest
   K114  Pocosin


SAF COVER TYPES : 
    13  Black spruce - tamarack
    38  Tamarack
    45  Pitch pine
    75  Shortleaf pine
    76  Shortleaf pine - oak
    80  Loblolly pine - shortleaf pine
    83  Longleaf pine - slash pine
    97  Atlantic white-cedar
   108  Red maple


SRM (RANGELAND) COVER TYPES : 
NO-ENTRY


HABITAT TYPES AND PLANT COMMUNITIES : 
Maleberry is a common but rarely dominant shrub in moist and dry woods
and thickets, heath balds, shrub bogs, and the margins of swamps, ponds
and rivers [14].

Maleberry frequently occurs in transitional communities such as pond and
swamp margins and forest edges [13].  In New York, maleberry is a
characteristic species of shrub swamp and pine barrens shrub swamp
communities which are transitional between marsh, fen, or bog and upland
communities [25].  In a moat bog in Massachusetts, maleberry occurs in a
transitional community between the fringe moat community (a floating mat
at the bog edge) and the shrub thicket community of the bog interior
[21].  A moat bog is an intermediate stage of lake-fill succession in
which a circle of water separates the island bog from uplands [31].
Maleberry occurs in the grassy bald ecotone between grassy balds and
deciduous forests [30].

In the Great Smoky Mountains of North Carolina and Tennessee, maleberry
occurs in pitch pine (Pinus rigida) heath, Table Mountain pine (Pinus
pungens) heath, and heath bald communities [30].  In these communities,
maleberry is associated with other heath species including rhododendron
(Rhododendron spp.), highbush cranberry (Vaccinium corymbosum),
mountain-laurel (Kalmia latifolia), and sweet pepperbush (Clethra spp.)
[3,29,20].

On tree islands of the Okefenokee Swamp on the border of Georgia and
Florida, maleberry occurs with fetterbush (Leucothoe racemosa),
hurrahbush (Lyonia lucida), and southern bayberry (Myrica cerifera) [5].

Maleberry occurs with northern bayberry (Myrica pensylvanica) and
beach-plum (Prunus maritima) on secondary dunes surrounding bogs on
Monomoy Island, Massachusetts [20].

Related categories for Species: Lyonia ligustrina | Maleberry