DISTRIBUTION AND OCCURRENCE
SPECIES: Quercus vaccinifolia | Huckleberry Oak 



GENERAL DISTRIBUTION : 
Huckleberry oak is distributed along the Sierra Nevada and the Cascade
Range from Fresno County, California north to Siskiyou County,
California, and in the North Coast and Siskiyou ranges from Mendocino
County, California north to Josephine County, Oregon [1,10,15,16].  It
also occurs in extreme west-central Nevada [24].


ECOSYSTEMS : 
   FRES20  Douglas-fir
   FRES21  Ponderosa pine
   FRES23  Fir - spruce
   FRES26  Lodgepole pine
   FRES28  Western hardwoods
   FRES34  Chaparral - mountain shrub


STATES : 
     CA  NV  OR


ADMINISTRATIVE UNITS : 
     LAVO  REDW  WHIS  YOSE


BLM PHYSIOGRAPHIC REGIONS : 
    1  Northern Pacific Border
    2  Cascade Mountains
    3  Southern Pacific Border


KUCHLER PLANT ASSOCIATIONS : 
   K002  Cedar - hemlock - Douglas-fir forest
   K003  Silver fir - Douglas-fir forest
   K004  Fir - hemlock forest
   K008  Lodgepole pine - subalpine forest
   K009  Pine - cypress forest
   K010  Ponderosa shrub forest
   K011  Western ponderosa forest
   K012  Douglas-fir forest
   K013  Cedar - hemlock - pine forest
   K018  Pine - Douglas-fir forest
   K020  Spruce - fir - Douglas-fir forest
   K029  California mixed evergreen forest
   K030  California oakwoods
   K034  Montane chaparral


SAF COVER TYPES : 
   205  Mountain hemlock
   207  Red fir
   211  White fir
   215  Western white pine
   218  Lodgepole pine
   229  Pacific Douglas-fir
   230  Douglas-fir - western hemlock
   231  Port-Orford-cedar
   234  Douglas-fir - tanoak - Pacific madrone
   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
   248  Knobcone pine
   249  Canyon live oak
   256  California mixed subalpine
   218  Lodgepole pine


SRM (RANGELAND) COVER TYPES : 
NO-ENTRY


HABITAT TYPES AND PLANT COMMUNITIES : 
The huckleberry oak community type is composed of montane chaparral
fields dominated by this species [10,16].  It is also an important or
dominant component of the subcanopy layer of various coniferous forests
[1,9,22].  Huckleberry oak is listed as a dominant species in the
following publications:

Preliminary plant associations of the Siskiyou Mountain Province [1]
Association types in the North Coast Ranges of California [4]
Mixed evergreen forest [22]
The vascular plant communitites of California [26]

Related categories for Species: Quercus vaccinifolia | Huckleberry Oak