DISTRIBUTION AND OCCURRENCE
SPECIES: Ribes cereum | Wax Currant 



GENERAL DISTRIBUTION : 
The distribution of wax currant ranges from central and eastern British
Columbia south to the Sierra Nevada, northern Arizona, and northern New
Mexico [29,30,47].



ECOSYSTEMS : 
   FRES20  Douglas-fir
   FRES21  Ponderosa pine
   FRES22  Western white pine
   FRES23  Fir-spruce
   FRES25  Larch
   FRES26  Lodgepole pine
   FRES28  Western hardwoods
   FRES29  Sagebrush
   FRES34  Chaparral-mountain shrub
   FRES35  Pinyon-juniper
   FRES36  Mountain grasslands


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


ADMINISTRATIVE UNITS : 
     AGFO  AZRU  BADL  BAND  BICA  BLCA
     BRCA  CARE  CEBR  CHCU  CODA  CRLA
     CRMO  CURE  DETO  DEVA  DEPO  DINO
     ELMA  FOUS  GLAC  JODA  LAVO  LABE
     SCBL  SEKI  SUCR  NAVA  ROMO  WACA
     WICA  WUPA  YELL  YOSE  ZION


BLM PHYSIOGRAPHIC REGIONS : 
    1  Northern Pacific Border
    2  Cascade Mountains
    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
   16  Upper Missouri Basin and Broken Lands


KUCHLER PLANT ASSOCIATIONS : 
   K005  Mixed conifer forest
   K007  Red fir forest
   K008  Lodgepole pine-subalpine forest
   K010  Ponderosa shrub forest
   K011  Western ponderosa 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
   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
   K034  Montane chaparral
   K037  Mountain-mahogany-oak scrub
   K038  Great Basin sagebrush
   K050  Fescue-wheatgrass
   K051  Wheatgrass-bluegrass
   K055  Sagebrush steppe
   K063  Foothills prairie


SAF COVER TYPES : 
   207  Red fir
   208  Whitebark pine
   209  Bristlecone pine
   210  Interior Douglas-fir
   211  White fir
   215  Western white pine
   217  Aspen
   218  Lodgepole pine
   219  Limber pine
   220  Rocky Mountain juniper
   237  Interior ponderosa pine
   238  Western juniper
   239  Pinyon-juniper
   243  Sierra Nevada mixed conifer
   245  Pacific ponderosa pine
   247  Jeffrey pine
   248  Knobcone pine
   256  California mixed subalpine


SRM (RANGELAND) COVER TYPES : 
   101  Bluebunch wheatgrass
   102  Idaho fescue
   104  Antelope bitterbrush-bluebunch wheatgrass
   105  Antelope bitterbrush-Idaho fescue
   106  Bluegrass scabland
   107  Western juniper/big sagebrush/bluebunch wheatgrass
   109  Ponderosa pine shrubland
   110  Ponderosa pine-grassland
   208  Ceanothus mixed chaparral
   209  Montane shrubland
   210  Bitterbrush
   302  Bluebunch wheatgrass-Sandberg bluegrass
   304  Idaho fescue-bluebunch wheatgrass
   311  Rough fescue-bluebunch wheatgrass
   312  Rough fescue-Idaho fescue
   314  Big sagebrush-bluebunch wheatgrass
   315  Big sagebrush-Idaho fescue
   316  Big sagebrush-rough fescue
   317  Bitterbrush-bluebunch wheatgrass
   318  Bitterbrush-Idaho fescue
   319  Bitterbrush-rough fescue
   322  Curlleaf mountain-mahogany-bluebunch wheatgrass
   324  Threetip sagebrush-Idaho fescue
   401  Basin big sagebrush
   402  Mountain big sagebrush
   403  Wyoming big sagebrush
   404  Threetip sagebrush
   405  Black sagebrush
   406  Low sagebrush
   409  Tall forb
   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
   419  Bittercherry
   420  Snowbrush
   421  Chokecherry-serviceberry-rose
   504  Juniper-pinyon pine woodland


HABITAT TYPES AND PLANT COMMUNITIES : 
Wax currant occurs in open, coniferous forests, at forest edges, and in
mountain shrub communities.

In addition to the plant associations and cover types listed in
preceding slots, wax currant occurs in the Bebb willow (Salix bebbiana)
community type in the northwestern third of New Mexico [42].  In the
Siskiyou and Cascade ranges and the Sierra Nevada, wax currant occurs
with Baker's cypress (Cupressus bakeri) at several disjunct locations
[13].

Species commonly associated with wax currant but not previously
mentioned include sugar pine (P.  lambertiana), Washoe pine (P.
washoensis) [6,7,27,29,34], Rocky Mountain maple (Acer glabrum), sierra
chinkapin (Castanopsis sempervirens), rabbitbrush (Chrysothamnus spp.),
ninebark (Physocarpus malvaceus), skunkbrush sumac (Rhus trilobata),
white spiraea (Spiraea betulifolia), snowberry (Symphoricarpos spp.)
[7,8,9,38,39], pine grass (Calamagrostis rubescens), Arizona festuca
(Festuca arizonica), needlegrass (Stipa spp.), Indian ricegrass
(Oryzopsis hymenoides), sweetcicely (Osmorhiza berteroi), mountain muhly
(Muhlenbergia montana), prairie junegrass (Koeleria macrantha), Great
Basin wildrye (Leymus cinereus), bottlebrush squirreltail (Elymus
elymoides), white mountain sedge (Carex geophila), elk sedge (C.
geyeri), and Ross' sedge (C. rossii) [6,7,24,35,39].

Related categories for Species: Ribes cereum | Wax Currant