DISTRIBUTION AND OCCURRENCE
SPECIES: Ribes aureum | Golden Currant 



GENERAL DISTRIBUTION : 
The distribution of golden currant ranges from British Columbia east to
Saskatchewan, south to western Nebraska, Colorado, and northwestern
Texas, west to Los Angeles, California, and north to the eastern slopes
of the Cascade Range [11,21,22,23,30].

Golden currant is native to the West, but it has been cultivated and
has naturalized in the East [28].  The distribution of Ribes aureum var.
villosum, formerly Ribes odoratum [18,24], ranges from Minnesota east to
Michigan south through Tennessee to Arkansas, west to Texas, and north
through Colorado to South Dakota [18,52].  The distribution of R. aureum
var. villosum is not considered in the ecosystems, plant associations,
and cover types listed here because information is lacking.


ECOSYSTEMS : 
   FRES20  Douglas-fir
   FRES21  Ponderosa pine
   FRES23  Fir-spruce
   FRES25  Larch
   FRES26  Lodgepole pine
   FRES28  Western hardwoods
   FRES29  Sagebrush
   FRES30  Desert shrub
   FRES34  Chaparral-mountain shrub
   FRES35  Pinyon-juniper
   FRES36  Mountain grasslands
   FRES38  Plains grasslands
   FRES40  Desert grasslands


STATES : 
     AZ  AR  CA  CO  ID  IL  IN  IA  KS  KY
     MI  MN  MO  MT  NE  NV  NM  ND  OK  OR
     SD  TN  TX  UT  WA  WI  WY  AB  BC  SK


ADMINISTRATIVE UNITS : 
     AGFO  AZRU  BADL  BIBE  BICA  BRCA
     BUFF  CARE  CODA  CRMO  CURE  DEVA
     DETO  DINO  ELMA  FOUS  GICL  GRSM
     HOVE  JODA  LAMR  MEVE  LIBI  MOCA
     OZAR  PECO  PIPE  SAMO  SCBL  WICA
     SLBE  ZION


BLM PHYSIOGRAPHIC REGIONS : 
    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 : 
   K005  Mixed conifer forest
   K010  Ponderosa shrub forest
   K011  Western ponderosa forest
   K012  Douglas-fir forest
   K014  Grand fir-Douglas-fir forest
   K015  Western spruce-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
   K022  Great Basin pine forest
   K023  Juniper-pinyon woodland
   K024  Juniper steppe woodland
   K030  California oakwoods
   K033  Chaparral
   K034  Montane chaparral
   K037  Mountain-mahogany-oak scrub
   K038  Great Basin sagebrush
   K040  Saltbush-greasewood
   K050  Fescue-wheatgrass
   K051  Wheatgrass-bluegrass
   K055  Sagebrush steppe
   K056  Wheatgrass-needlegrass shrubsteppe
   K057  Galleta-three-awn shrubsteppe
   K063  Foothills prairie
   K064  Grama-needlegrass-wheatgrass
   K066  Wheatgrass-needlegrass


SAF COVER TYPES : 
   210  Interior Douglas-fir
   217  Aspen
   220  Rocky Mountain juniper
   222  Black cottonwood-willow
   229  Pacific Douglas-fir
   235  Cottonwood-willow
   237  Interior ponderosa pine
   238  Western juniper
   239  Pinyon-juniper
   243  Sierra Nevada mixed conifer
   244  Pacific ponderosa pine-Douglas-fir
   245  Pacific ponderosa pine
   256  California mixed subalpine


SRM (RANGELAND) COVER TYPES : 
   107  Western juniper/big sagebrush/bluebunch wheatgrass
   109  Ponderosa pine shrubland
   203  Riparian woodland
   207  Scrub oak mixed chaparral
   208  Ceanothus mixed chaparral
   209  Montane shrubland
   314  Big sagebrush-bluebunch wheatgrass
   315  Big sagebrush-Idaho fescue
   322  Curlleaf mountain-mahogany-bluebunch wheatgrass
   401  Basin big sagebrush
   402  Mountain big sagebrush
   403  Wyoming big sagebrush
   406  Low sagebrush
   411  Aspen woodland
   412  Juniper-pinyon woodland
   413  Gambel oak
   415  Curlleaf mountain-mahogany
   416  True mountain-mahogany
   417  Littleleaf mountain-mahogany
   418  Bigtooth maple
   421  Chokecherry-serviceberry-rose
   422  Riparian
   501  Saltbush-greasewood
   504  Juniper-pinyon pine woodland
   509  Transition between oak-juniper woodland and mahogany-oak association
   612  Sagebrush-grass
   733  Juniper-oak


HABITAT TYPES AND PLANT COMMUNITIES : 
Golden currant occurs in grassland, coniferous forests and woodlands,
and riparian and mountain shrub communities [12,19,54].

In addition to the plant associations and cover types listed in
preceding slots, golden currant occurs in the alluvial scrub vegetation
of the San Gabriel River floodplain [44] and in central coast riparian
forest [39] in California.  In the Malheur National Forest, Oregon,
golden currant is a member of the Mackenzie willow (Salix rigida var.
mackenzieana) riparian dominance type; associated species include Wood's
rose (Rosa woodsii), Kentucky bluegrass (Poa pratense), smooth brome
(Bromus inermis), meadow barley (Hordeum brachyantherum), and redtop
(Agrostis alba) [32].

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