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Wildlife, Animals, and Plants
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DISTRIBUTION AND OCCURRENCE
SPECIES: Paxistima myrsinites | Oregon Boxwood
GENERAL DISTRIBUTION:
Oregon boxwood occurs from British Columbia south into California and Mexico
and east through the Rocky Mountains [24,52].
ECOSYSTEMS [18]:
FRES20 Douglas-fir
FRES22 Western white pine
FRES23 Fir - spruce
FRES25 Larch
FRES26 Lodgepole pine
FRES28 Western hardwoods
STATES:
AR AZ CA CO ID MT
NM OR TX UT
WA WY AB BC MEXICO
BLM PHYSIOGRAPHIC REGIONS [5]:
1 Northern Pacific Border
2 Cascade Mountains
3 Southern Pacific Border
4 Sierra Mountains
5 Columbia Plateau
6 Upper Basin and Range
8 Northern Rocky Mountains
9 Middle Rocky Mountains
11 Southern Rocky Mountains
12 Colorado Plateau
13 Rocky Mountain Piedmont
KUCHLER [30] PLANT ASSOCIATIONS:
K001 Spruce - cedar - hemlock forest
K002 Cedar - hemlock - Douglas-fir forest
K004 Fir - hemlock forest
K005 Mixed conifer forest
K007 Red fir forest
K008 Lodgepole pine - subalpine forest
K011 Western ponderosa forest
K012 Douglas-fir forest
K013 Cedar - hemlock - pine forest
K014 Grand fir - Douglas-fir forest
K015 Western spruce - fir forest
K018 Pine - Douglas-fir forest
K019 Arizona pine forest
K020 Spruce - fir - Douglas-fir forest
K021 Southwestern spruce - fir forest
K023 Juniper - pinyon woodland
SAF COVER TYPES [17]:
205 Mountain hemlock
206 Engelmann spruce - subalpine fir
207 Red fir
208 Whitebark pine
210 Interior Douglas-fir
211 White fir
212 Western larch
213 Grand fir
215 Western white pine
216 Blue spruce
217 Aspen
218 Lodgepole pine
224 Western hemlock
227 Western redcedar - western hemlock
228 Western redcedar
229 Pacific Douglas-fir
230 Douglas-fir - western hemlock
231 Port-Orford-cedar
256 California mixed subalpine
HABITAT TYPES AND PLANT COMMUNITIES:
Oregon boxwood is a dominant shrub in many forested and shrubland community
types, habitat types, and plant associations throughout western North America.
Some associates of Oregon boxwood include Engelmann spruce (Picea engelmannii),
Douglas-fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii), subalpine fir (Abies lasiocarpa),
white fir (A. concolor), red fir (A. magnifica), hemlock (Tsuga
spp.), western redcedar (Thuja plicata), lodgepole pine (Pinus
contorta), Gambel oak (Quercus gambelii), golden chinquapin (Chrysolepis
chrysophylla), Port-Orford-cedar (Chamaecyparis lawsoniana), quaking
aspen (Populus tremuloides), Rocky Mountain maple (Acer glabrum),
mountain snowberry (Symphoricarpos oreophilus), bunchberry dogwood (Cornus
canadensis), huckleberry (Vaccinium spp.), mallow ninebark (Physocarpos
malvaceus), lupine (Lupinus spp.), mountain sweetroot (Osmorhiza
chilensis), queencup beadlily (Clintonia uniflora), heartleaf arnica
(Arnica cordifolia), columbine (Aquilegia spp.) groundsel (Senecio
spp.), meadowrue (Thalictrum spp.), and pinegrass (Calamagrostis
rubescens) [2,13,22,25,26,34,36,39]. Publications listing Oregon boxwood as an
indicator are listed below.
| Area |
Classification |
Reference |
| CO: White River-Arapaho NF |
forest and shrubland habitat types |
Hess and Wasser 1982 |
| ID: Caribou, Targhee NF |
forest community types |
Mueggler and Campbell 1982 |
| BC: Similkameen Valley |
forest community types |
McLean 1970 |
| northern UT |
forest habitat type |
Mauk and Henderson 1984 |
| OR: Wenema NF |
forest plant association |
Hopkins 1979b |
| CO: Gunnison, Uncompahgre NF |
forest habitat type |
Komarkova 1986 |
| CO: White River NF |
forest habitat type |
Hoffman and Alexander 1983 |
| CO: Routt NF |
forest habitat type |
Hoffman and Alexander 1980 |
| WA: Okanogan NF |
forest plant association |
Williams and Lillybridge 1983 |
| eastern WA, northern ID |
forest habitat types |
Daubenmire and Daubenmire
1968 |
Related categories for
SPECIES: Paxistima myrsinites | Oregon Boxwood
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