DISTRIBUTION AND OCCURRENCE
SPECIES: Ribes americanum | American Black Currant 



GENERAL DISTRIBUTION : 
The distribution of American black currant ranges east of the Rocky
Mountains from Alberta east to Nova Scotia, south to Delaware, west
through northern Illinois to Nebraska, and south to New Mexico
[13,16,17,23].


ECOSYSTEMS : 
   FRES10  White-red-jack pine
   FRES11  Spruce-fir
   FRES15  Oak-hickory
   FRES17  Elm-ash-cottonwood
   FRES18  Maple-beech-birch
   FRES19  Aspen-birch
   FRES21  Ponderosa pine


STATES : 
     CO  CT  DE  IL  IN  IA  ME  MD  MA  MI
     MN  MT  NE  NY  NJ  NH  NM  ND  OH  PA
     RI  SD  VT  VA  WV  WI  WY  AB  MB  NB
     NS  ON  PQ  SK


ADMINISTRATIVE UNITS : 
     ACAD  AGFO  ALPO  APIS  BADL  BICA
     CUVA  GRPO  INDU  JOFL  KNRI  PIRO
     PIPE  SACR  SHEN  SLBE  VOYA


BLM PHYSIOGRAPHIC REGIONS : 
   10  Wyoming Basin
   13  Rocky Mountain Piedmont
   14  Great Plains
   15  Black Hills Uplift
   16  Upper Missouri Basin and Broken Lands


KUCHLER PLANT ASSOCIATIONS : 
   K017  Black Hills pine forest
   K093  Great Lakes spruce-fir forest
   K094  Conifer bog
   K095  Great Lakes pine forest
   K096  Northeastern spruce-fir forest
   K099  Maple-basswood forest
   K101  Elm-ash forest
   K104  Appalachian oak forest
   K106  Northern hardwoods
   K107  Northern hardwoods-fir forest
   K108  Northern hardwoods-spruce forest


SAF COVER TYPES : 
     1  Jack pine
     5  Balsam fir
    14  Northern pin oak
    15  Red pine
    16  Aspen
    17  Pin cherry
    20  White pine-northern red oak-red maple
    21  Eastern white pine
    25  Sugar maple-beech-yellow birch
    26  Sugar maple-basswood
    27  Sugar maple
    28  Black cherry-maple
    31  Red spruce-sugar maple-beech
    33  Red spruce-balsam fir
    35  Paper birch-red spruce-balsam fir
    37  Northern white-cedar
    39  Black ash-American elm-red maple
    42  Bur oak
    53  White oak
    55  Northern red oak
    55  Northern red oak
    60  Beech-sugar maple
    62  Silver maple-American elm
    63  Cottonwood
   108  Red maple
   109  Hawthorn
   110  Black oak


SRM (RANGELAND) COVER TYPES : 
NO-ENTRY


HABITAT TYPES AND PLANT COMMUNITIES : 
In addition to the plant associations and cover types listed in
preceding slots, American black currant occurs in prairie marshes in
southern Manitoba [21].  In Custer National Forest, Montana, American
black currant occurs in the green ash (Fraxinus pennsylvanica)/
chokecherry (Prunus virginiana) habitat type and silver buffaloberry
(Shepherdia argentea) and western snowberry (Symphoricarpos
occidentalis) community types [15].  In Michigan and Minnesota, American
black currant is an invasive shrub in sedge (Carex spp.) meadows [33].
In northern Michigan, American black currant is a minor shrub in alder
(Alnus spp.) swamps [25].

Related categories for Species: Ribes americanum | American Black Currant