DISTRIBUTION AND OCCURRENCE
SPECIES: Ribes lacustre | Bristly Black Currant 



GENERAL DISTRIBUTION : 
Bristly black currant occurs throughout Canada from Newfoundland to
Yukon Territory and in Alaska [35,54,59].  It extends south into the
continental United States in the Coast and Cascade rangess to northern
California, in the Rocky Mountains to central Colorado and northern
Utah, in the Great Lake States, and in the Appalachian Mountains to West
Virginia [8,25,33,65,72].  In the northern Great Plains region, bristly
black currant occurs in the Black Hills [26].


ECOSYSTEMS : 
   FRES11  Spruce-fir
   FRES18  Maple-beech-birch
   FRES19  Aspen-birch
   FRES20  Douglas-fir
   FRES22  Western white pine
   FRES23  Fir-spruce
   FRES24  Hemlock-Sitka spruce
   FRES25  Larch
   FRES26  Lodgepole pine
   FRES28  Western hardwoods


STATES : 
     AK  CA  CO  CT  ID  ME  MA  MI  MN  MT
     NH  OH  OR  PA  SD  UT  VT  VA  WA  WV
     WY  AB  BC  MB  NB  NF  NT  ON  PE  PQ
     SK  YT


ADMINISTRATIVE UNITS : 
     ACAD  CODA  CRLA  GETT  GLBA  GLAC
     ISRO  KATM  LACL  MOSA  NOCA  OLYM
     ORCA  PIRO  ROMO  SACN  VOYA  YELL


BLM PHYSIOGRAPHIC REGIONS : 
    1  Northern Pacific Border
    2  Cascade Mountains
    5  Columbia Plateau
    8  Northern Rocky Mountains
    9  Middle Rocky Mountains
   10  Wyoming Basin
   11  Southern Rocky Mountains
   15  Black Hills Uplift
   16  Upper Missouri Basin and Broken Lands


KUCHLER PLANT ASSOCIATIONS : 
   K001  Spruce-cedar-hemlock forest
   K003  Silver fir-Douglas-fir forest
   K004  Fir-hemlock forest
   K007  Red fir forest
   K008  Lodgepole pine-subalpine forest
   K012  Douglas-fir forest
   K013  Cedar-hemlock-pine forest
   K014  Grand fir-Douglas-fir forest
   K015  Western spruce-fir forest
   K025  Alder-ash forest
   K093  Great Lakes spruce-fir forest
   K096  Northeastern spruce-fir forest
   K106  Northern hardwoods


SAF COVER TYPES : 
    60  Beech-sugar maple
   107  White spruce
   201  White spruce
   205  Mountain hemlock
   206  Engelmann spruce-subalpine fir
   207  Red fir
   208  Whitebark pine
   210  Interior Douglas-fir
   211  White fir
   212  Western larch
   213  Grand fir
   215  Western white pine
   218  Lodgepole pine
   221  Red alder
   222  Black cottonwood-willow
   223  Sitka spruce
   227  Western redcedar-western hemlock


SRM (RANGELAND) COVER TYPES : 
   422  Riparian


HABITAT TYPES AND PLANT COMMUNITIES : 
Bristly black currant occurs in woods, forests, and shrublands.  It is a
common but not abundant understory species [16,27,32].

Bristly black currant occurs in the understory of subalpine forests in
Wyoming with gooseberry currant (Ribes montigenum), sidebells
wintergreen (Orthilia secunda), heartleaf arnica (Arnica cordifolia),
and fireweed (Epilobium angustifolium) [9].

In the cedar (Thuja spp.)-hemlock (Tsuga spp.) zone of northwestern
British Columbia, bristly black currant occurs with devil's club
(Oplopanax horridus), leafy moss (Mnium spp.), oak fern (Gymnocarpium
dryopteris), Schreber's moss (Pleurozium schreberi), common ladyfern
(Athyrium filix-femina), and horsetail (Equisetum spp.) [28].  Bristly
black currant occurs in the oak fern, devil's club, horsetail, and
queencup beadlily (Clintonia uniflora) series of the wet, cool subboreal
spruce (Picea spp.) forest zone in British Columbia [32].

Bristly black currant occurs with Rocky Mountain maple (Acer glabrum),
Utah honeysuckle (Lonicera utahensis), blue huckleberry (Vaccinium
membranaceum), and western meadowrue (Thalictrum occidentale) in the
understory of a virgin grand fir (Abies grandis) forest in northern
Idaho [36].

In spruce forests in Alberta, bristly black currant occurs with other
mesophytic species including twinberry honeysuckle (Lonicera
involucrata), highbush cranberry (Viburnum edule), tall bluebells
(Mertensia paniculata), wild sarsaparilla (Aralia nudicaulis), bluejoint
reedgrass (Calamagrostis canadensis), oak fern, stiff clubmoss
(Lycopodium amnotinum), and claspleaf twistedstalk (Streptopus
amplexifolius) [41].

Bristly black currant occurs in riparian woodlands and shrublands.  It
occurs in a thinleaf alder (Alnus incana ssp. tenuifolia) riparian
dominance type in east-central Oregon [50].  In the Klamath Mountains of
northern California, bristly black currant borders streams with thinleaf
alder, California mountain-ash (Sorbus californica), and Scouler willow
(Salix scouleriana), and it occurs in thickets with thinleaf alder,
Sitka alder (Alnus viridis ssp. sinuata), red-osier dogwood (Cornus
sericea), red elderberry (Sambucus racemosa ssp. pubens), and cascara
(Rhamnus purshiana) [56].

Clearcuts in the Olympic Mountains in Washington, dominated by
oceanspray (Holodiscus discolor) and thimbleberry (Rubus parviflorus),
include common snowberry (Symphoricarpos albus) and bristly black
currant [23].

Related categories for Species: Ribes lacustre | Bristly Black Currant