DISTRIBUTION AND OCCURRENCE
SPECIES: Menziesia ferruginea | Menziesia 



GENERAL DISTRIBUTION : 
M. ferruginea var. ferruginea is found north along the Alaskan Coast,
and south along the Pacific Coast to northern California, inland across
the Cascades and Rocky Mountains to Wyoming [25,33].

M. ferruginea var. glabella is distributed from British Columbia to
Alberta, south to Montana, Wyoming, Idaho, eastern Washington, and
Oregon; down the Columbia River to Mt. Hood and Mt. Adams, where the two
varieties freely interbreed [25,27].


ECOSYSTEMS : 
   FRES20  Douglas-fir
   FRES22  Western white pine
   FRES23  Fir - spruce
   FRES24  Hemlock - Sitka spruce
   FRES25  Larch


STATES : 
     AK  CA  ID  MT  OR  WA  WY  AB  BC


ADMINISTRATIVE UNITS : 
     BIHO  DENA  GLBA  GLAC  GRTE  LACL
     MORA  NOCA  OLYM  REDW


BLM PHYSIOGRAPHIC REGIONS : 
   1  Northern Pacific Border
   2  Cascade Mountains
   4  Sierra Mountains
   5  Columbia Plateau
   8  Northern Rocky Mountains
   9  Middle Rocky Mountains


KUCHLER PLANT ASSOCIATIONS : 
   K001  Spruce - cedar - hemlock forest
   K002  Cedar - hemlock - Douglas-fir forest
   K003  Silver fir - Douglas-fir forest
   K004  Fir - hemlock forest
   K012  Douglas-fir forest
   K013  Cedar - hemlock - pine forest
   K014  Grand fir - Douglas-fir forest
   K015  Western spruce - fir forest


SAF COVER TYPES : 
   205  Mountain hemlock
   206  Engelmann spruce - subalpine fir
   210  Interior Douglas-fir
   212  Western larch
   213  Grand fir
   215  Western white pine


SRM (RANGELAND) COVER TYPES : 
NO-ENTRY


HABITAT TYPES AND PLANT COMMUNITIES : 
Menziesia is an understory dominant on moist, wooded north- and
east-facing slopes of the montane to upper subalpine zones.  Overstory
components mostly include subalpine fir (Abies lasiocarpa), Pacific
silver fir (A. amabilis), western redcedar (Thuja plicata), mountain
hemlock (Tsuga mertensiana), western hemlock (T. heterophylla), and
Engelmann spruce (Picea engelmannii) [25].  Menziesia's associates
generally include blue huckleberry (Vaccinium globulare), smooth
woodrush (Luzula hitchcockii), and on higher sites, white rhododendron
(Rhododendron albiflorum) [33].  In Alaska, menziesia is a common
understory shrub in the coastal spruce-hemlock forest, often under a
dense canopy.  It also grows in the southern part of the boreal forest
in white spruce (Picea glauca) and white spruce-paper birch (Betula
papyrifera) stands [53].


Publications listing menziesia as an indicator or dominant species in
habitat types (hts), community types (cts), or plant associations (pas)
are presented below:

Area                       Classification       Authority

  AK                        forest (cts)        Reynolds 1990
c ID                        forest (hts)        Steele & others  1981
n ID                        forest (hts)        Cooper & others  1991
e ID and w WY               forest (hts)        Steele & others  1983
  MT                        forest (hts)        Pfister & others 1977 
  OR: Mt. Hood &
      Willamette N.F.       forest (pas)        Hemstrom & others 1982
  OR: Wallowa-Whitman
      National Forest       forest (pas)        Johnson & Simon   1987
  WA: Mount Rainier N.P.    forest (pas)        Franklin & others 1988
  WA: Gifford Pinchot
      National Forest       forest (pas)        Brockway & others 1983

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