DISTRIBUTION AND OCCURRENCE
SPECIES: Lyonia lucida | Fetterbush 



GENERAL DISTRIBUTION : 
Fetterbush grows along the United States' southeastern Coastal Plain
from southeastern Virginia, throughout south-central peninsular Florida,
west to Louisiana.  It also grows in Cuba [9,14].


ECOSYSTEMS : 
   FRES12  Longleaf - slash pine
   FRES13  Loblolly - shortleaf pine
   FRES14  Oak - pine
   FRES15  Oak - hickory
   FRES16  Oak - gum - cypress
   FRES41  Wet grasslands


STATES : 
     AL  FL  GA  LA  MS  NC  SC  VA


ADMINISTRATIVE UNITS : 
     BICY  BLRI  CAHA  COSW  CUIS  FOCA


BLM PHYSIOGRAPHIC REGIONS : 
NO-ENTRY


KUCHLER PLANT ASSOCIATIONS : 
   K079  Palmetto prairie
   K080  Marl - everglades
   K089  Black belt
   K090  Live oak - sea oats
   K091  Cypress savanna
   K105  Mangrove
   K112  Southern mixed forest
   K113  Southern floodplain forest
   K114  Pocosin


SAF COVER TYPES : 
    69  Sand pine
    73  Southern redcedar
    74  Cabbage palmetto
    81  Loblolly pine
    83  Longleaf pine - slash pine
    84  Slash pine
    85  Slash pine - hardwood
    98  Pond pine
   101  Baldcypress
   102  Baldcypress - tupelo
   103  Water tupelo - swamp tupelo
   104  Sweetbay - swamp tupelo - redbay
   106  Mangrove


SRM (RANGELAND) COVER TYPES : 
NO-ENTRY


HABITAT TYPES AND PLANT COMMUNITIES : 
Fetterbush is a principal shrub in the understories of pocosins
[13,27,31], bayheads [23], and cypress (Taxodium spp.) heads [18,24]
(all synonyms of "evergreen shrub bog" [27]).  Other fetterbush sites
include conifer swamps, seasonally wet flatwoods and savannas,
cypress-gum (Nyssa spp.) ponds, depressions, and broadleaf seepage areas
[6,9,14,28].  It is a principal understory species in the Big Cypress
[7] and Okeefenokee [1] swamps, and one of the more abundant and
constant shrubs in saw-palmetto (Serenoa repens) prairie [35].
Occasionally, fetterbush grows on more xeric sites such as gallberry
(Ilex glabra) flatwoods and dry prairies [2,28].  Austin and others [2]
describe it as a scrub "indicator", although Godfrey [14] considers it
occasional in scrub communities.

Overstory associates include Atlantic white cedar (Chamaecyparis
thyoides), various southern pines (Pinus spp.), sweet bay (Magnolia
virginiana), red bay (Persea borbonia), loblolly bay (Gordonia
lasianthus), cypress, and tupelo (Nyssa spp.) [9,27,28].  Understory
associates include gallberry, shrubby oaks (Quercus spp.), sweetbells
leucothoe (Leucothoe racemosa), highbush blueberry (Vaccinium
corymbosum), sweet pepperbush (Clethera alnifolia), titi (Cyrilla
racemiflora), laurelleaf greenbrier (Smilax laurifolia), and honeycup
(Zenobia pulveralenta) [9,16,27].

Related categories for Species: Lyonia lucida | Fetterbush