• GENERAL DISTRIBUTION
• ECOSYSTEMS
• STATES
• BLM PHYSIOGRAPHIC REGIONS
• KUCHLER PLANT ASSOCIATIONS
• SAF COVER TYPES
• SRM (RANGELAND) COVER TYPES
• HABITAT TYPES AND PLANT COMMUNITIES

GENERAL DISTRIBUTION:

Smooth sumac is distributed widely throughout most of the contiguous U.S. and into Mexico [58]. It does not occur in California [42,93]. In Canada it extends from Lake Huron to central British Columbia [46,57,76].

ECOSYSTEMS:

FRES10 White-red-jack pine
FRES11 Spruce-fir
FRES12 Longleaf-slash pine
FRES13 Loblolly-shortleaf pine
FRES14 Oak-pine
FRES15 Oak-hickory
FRES17 Elm-ash-cottonwood
FRES18 Maple-beech-birch
FRES19 Aspen-birch
FRES20 Douglas-fir
FRES21 Ponderosa pine
FRES22 Western white pine
FRES23 Fir-spruce
FRES26 Lodgepole pine
FRES28 Western hardwoods
FRES29 Sagebrush
FRES30 Desert shrub
FRES33 Southwestern shrubsteppe
FRES34 Chaparral-mountain shrub
FRES35 Pinyon-juniper
FRES36 Mountain grasslands
FRES38 Plains grasslands
FRES39 Prairie

STATES:

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
7 Lower Basin and Range
8 Northern Rocky Mountains
9 Middle Rocky Mountains
10 Wyoming Basin
11 Southern Rocky Mountains
12 Colorado Plateau
13 Rocky Mountain Piedmont
14 Great Plains
15 Black Hills Uplift
16 Upper Missouri Basin and Broken Lands

KUCHLER PLANT ASSOCIATIONS:

K011 Western ponderosa forest
K012 Douglas-fir forest
K014 Grand fir-Douglas-fir forest
K016 Eastern ponderosa forest
K017 Black Hills pine forest
K018 Pine-Douglas-fir forest
K019 Arizona pine forest
K020 Spruce-fir-Douglas-fir forest
K021 Southwestern spruce-fir forest
K022 Great Basin pine forest
K023 Juniper-pinyon woodland
K024 Juniper steppe woodland
K037 Mountain-mahogany-oak scrub
K038 Great Basin sagebrush
K055 Sagebrush steppe
K056 Wheatgrass-needlegrass shrubsteppe
K057 Galleta-threeawn shrubsteppe
K063 Foothills prairie
K064 Grama-needlegrass-wheatgrass
K065 Grama-buffalo grass
K066 Wheatgrass-needlegrass
K067 Wheatgrass-bluestem-needlegrass
K068 Wheatgrass-grama-buffalo grass
K069 Bluestem-grama prairie
K070 Sandsage-bluestem prairie
K074 Bluestem prairie
K075 Nebraska Sandhills prairie
K081 Oak savanna
K084 Cross Timbers
K086 Juniper-oak savanna
K095 Great Lakes pine forest
K097 Southeastern spruce-fir forest
K098 Northern floodplain forest
K100 Oak-hickory
K103 Mixed mesophytic forest
K104 Appalachian oak forest
K106 Northern hardwoods
K107 Northern hardwoods-fir forest
K108 Northern hardwoods-spruce forest
K110 Northeastern oak-pine forest
K111 Oak-hickory-pine
K112 Southern mixed forest
K115 Sand pine scrub

SAF COVER TYPES:

14 Northern pin oak
17 Pin cherry
40 Post oak-blackjack oak
42 Bur oak
43 Bear oak
45 Pitch pine
52 White oak-black oak-northern red oak
53 White oak
210 Interior Douglas-fir
220 Rocky Mountain juniper
236 Bur oak
237 Interior ponderosa pine
238 Western juniper
239 Pinyon-juniper

SRM (RANGELAND) COVER TYPES:

109 Ponderosa pine shrubland
421 Chokecherry-serviceberry-rose
602 Bluestem-prairie sandreed
603 Prairie sandreed-needlegrass
606 Wheatgrass-bluestem-needlegrass
710 Bluestem prairie
720 Sand bluestem-little bluestem (dunes)
721 Sand bluestem-little bluestem (plains)
722 Sand sagebrush-mixed prairie
731 Cross timbers-Oklahoma
801 Savanna
802 Missouri prairie
804 Tall fescue
809 Mixed hardwood and pine

HABITAT TYPES AND PLANT COMMUNITIES:

Smooth sumac is a climax indicator in a number of shrub-grassland communities. In eastern Washington climax mountain grasslands once dominated by smooth sumac and perennial grasses have been overgrazed and are now smooth sumac/cheatgrass (Bromus tectorum) communities [22]. Smooth sumac grows well in both the mountain brush and pinyon-juniper (Pinus-Juniperus spp.) zones [36].

Dominant associates in Appalachian pine-hardwood forests are pitch pine (P. rigida), scarlet oak (Quercus coccinia), chestnut oak (Q. prinus), and mountain-laurel (Kalmia latifolia) [28,29].

Common plant associates in Kansas bluestem prairies are [75]:

Grasses
big bluestem (Andropogon gerardii)
little bluestem (Schizachyrium scoparium)
Indiangrass (Sorghastrum nutans)
sideoats grass (Bouteloua curtipendula)
blue grama (B. gracilis)
hairy grama (B. hirsuta)
buffalograss (Buchloe dactyloides)
Kentucky bluegrass (Poa pratensis)

Woody Plants
buckbrush (Symphoricarpos orbiculatus)
American elm (Ulmus americana)
eastern redcedar (Juniperus virginiana)
bur oak (Q. macrocarpa)
chinkapin oak (Q. muehlenbergii)
roughleaf dogwood (Cornus drummondii)

Characteristic woody and graminoid species associated with smooth sumac in black oak (Q. velutina) savanna in Indiana include [8]:
white oak (Q. alba)
black cherry (Prunus serotina)
sassafras (Sassafras albidum)
flameleaf sumac (Rhus copallina)
little bluestem
yellow sedge (Carex pensylvanica)
prairie junegrass (Koelaria macrantha)
Indiangrass

Plant classifications naming smooth sumac as a dominant species are:

Steppe vegetation of Washington [22]
Natural vegetation of Oregon and Washington [32]
Canyon grasslands and associated shrublands of west-central Idaho and adjacent areas [84]

Related categories for SPECIES: Rhus glabra | Smooth Sumac

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