DISTRIBUTION AND OCCURRENCE
SPECIES: Prunus emarginata | Bitter Cherry 



GENERAL DISTRIBUTION : 
Bitter cherry occurs from British Columbia and Vancouver Island south to
southern California and east to Montana, Wyoming, Utah, and New Mexico
[50,61,120].  


ECOSYSTEMS : 
   FRES20  Douglas-fir
   FRES21  Ponderosa pine
   FRES22  Western white pine
   FRES23  Fir-spruce
   FRES24  Hemlock-Sitka spruce
   FRES25  Larch
   FRES26  Lodgepole pine
   FRES27  Redwood
   FRES28  Western hardwoods
   FRES34  Chaparral-mountain shrub
   FRES35  Pinyon-juniper


STATES : 
     AZ  CA  ID  MT  NV  NM  OR  UT  WA  WY
     BC


ADMINISTRATIVE UNITS : 
     CODA  CRLA  DEPO  GLAC  LAVO  LABE
     MORA  NAVA  NOCA  OLYM  ORCA  REDW
     SEKI  WHSH  YOSE


BLM PHYSIOGRAPHIC REGIONS : 
    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


KUCHLER PLANT ASSOCIATIONS : 
   K001  Spruce-cedar-hemlock forest
   K002  Cedar-hemlock-Douglas-fir forest
   K003  Silver fir-Douglas-fir forest
   K004  Fir-hemlock forest
   K005  Mixed conifer forest
   K006  Redwood forest
   K007  Red fir forest
   K008  Lodgepole pine-subalpine forest
   K010  Ponderosa shrub 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
   K020  Spruce-fir-Douglas-fir forest
   K022  Great Basin pine forest
   K024  Juniper steppe woodland
   K025  Alder-ash forest
   K026  Oregon oakwoods
   K028  Mosaic of K002 and K026
   K029  California mixed evergreen forest
   K033  Chaparral
   K034  Montane chaparral


SAF COVER TYPES : 
   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
   217  Aspen
   218  Lodgepole pine
   219  Limber pine
   220  Rocky Mountain juniper
   221  Red alder
   222  Black cottonwood-willow
   223  Sitka spruce
   224  Western hemlock
   225  Western hemlock-Sitka spruce
   226  Coastal true fir-hemlock
   227  Western redcedar-western hemlock
   228  Western redcedar
   229  Pacific Douglas-fir
   230  Douglas-fir-western hemlock
   231  Port-Orford-cedar
   232  Redwood
   233  Oregon white oak
   234  Douglas-fir-tanoak-Pacific madrone
   235  Cottonwood-willow
   237  Interior ponderosa pine
   238  Western juniper
   243  Sierra Nevada mixed conifer
   244  Pacific ponderosa pine-Douglas-fir
   245  Pacific ponderosa pine
   246  California black oak
   247  Jeffrey pine
   256  California mixed subalpine


SRM (RANGELAND) COVER TYPES : 
   107  Western juniper/big sagebrush/bluebunch wheatgrass
   109  Ponderosa pine shrubland
   203  Riparian woodland
   204  North coastal shrub
   208  Ceanothus mixed chaparral
   209  Montane shrubland
   210  Bitterbrush
   409  Tall forb
   411  Aspen woodland
   418  Bigtooth maple
   419  Bittercherry
   420  Snowbrush
   421  Chokecherry-serviceberry-rose
   422  Riparian


HABITAT TYPES AND PLANT COMMUNITIES : 
Bitter cherry occurs in a variety of habitats including mountain brush,
woodland, and riparian [11,17,40,77,83].  

Bitter cherry occurs in seral brushfield communities throughout the
Pacific Northwest and western Idaho.  Common associates include Rocky
mountain maple (Acer glabrum), Scouler willow (Salix scouleriana),
chokecherry (Prunus virginiana), redstem ceanothus (Ceanothus
sanguineus), deerbrush (C. integerrimus), Saskatoon serviceberry
(Amelanchier alnifolia), thimbleberry (Rubus parviflorus), pachistima
(Pachistima myrsinites), and oceanspray (Holodiscus discolor)
[35,40,68,99].

In California bitter cherry occurs in yellow pine (Pinus spp.) woodlands
and giant sequoia (Sequoiadendron giganteum) communities.  Common
associates include incense-cedar (Calocedrus decurrens), sugar pine
(Pinus lambertiana), Pacific yew (Taxus brevifolia), Pacific dogwood
(Cornus nuttallii), California hazel (Corylus cornuta var. californica),
greenleaf manzanita (Arctostaphylos patula), Parry manzanita (A.
manzanita), pinemat manzanita (A. nevadensis), and bush chinquapin
(Chrysolepsis sempervirens) [19,41,129,130].

In northern Idaho and eastern Washington bitter cherry occurs in quaking
aspen (Populus tremuloides) communities with Sitka alder (Alnus viridis
ssp. sinuata), Douglas maple (Acer glabrum var. douglasii), blue
elderberry (Sambucus cerulea), russet buffaloberry (Shepherdia
canadensis), and red-osier dogwood (Cornus sericea) [23,127].  

In Arizona bitter cherry is a member of interior deciduous riparian
forests dominated by sycamore (Platanus occidentalis), green ash
(Fraxinus pennsylvanica), Fremont cottonwood (Populus fremontii),
narrowleaf cottonwood (P. angustifolia), boxelder (Acer negundo), and
Arizona walnut (Juglans major) [11,83].  

Related categories for Species: Prunus emarginata | Bitter Cherry