DISTRIBUTION AND OCCURRENCE
SPECIES: Ribes montigenum | Gooseberry Currant 



GENERAL DISTRIBUTION : 
The distribution of gooseberry currant ranges from British Columbia east
to central Montana, south to New Mexico, and west to the Sierra Nevada
and the Cascade Range [6,14,16,44,45].


ECOSYSTEMS : 
   FRES23  Fir-spruce
   FRES26  Lodgepole pine
   FRES29  Sagebrush
   FRES34  Chaparral-mountain shrub
   FRES44  Alpine


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


ADMINISTRATIVE UNITS : 
     CEBR  CURE  DEVA  DEPO  GLAC  LAVO
     ROMO  SEKI  YELL  YOSE


BLM PHYSIOGRAPHIC REGIONS : 
    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


KUCHLER PLANT ASSOCIATIONS : 
   K004  Fir-hemlock forest
   K008  Lodgepole pine-subalpine forest
   K015  Western spruce-fir forest
   K020  Spruce-fir-Douglas-fir forest
   K021  Southwestern spruce-fir forest
   K037  Mountain-mahogany-oak scrub
   K038  Great Basin sagebrush
   K052  Alpine meadows and barren
   K055  Sagebrush steppe


SAF COVER TYPES : 
   206  Engelmann spruce-subalpine fir
   208  Whitebark pine
   209  Bristlecone pine
   211  White fir
   213  Grand fir
   216  Blue spruce
   218  Lodgepole pine
   219  Limber pine
   220  Rocky Mountain juniper
   256  California mixed subalpine


SRM (RANGELAND) COVER TYPES : 
   108  Alpine Idaho fescue
   213  Alpine grassland
   322  Curlleaf mountain-mahogany-bluebunch wheatgrass
   402  Mountain big sagebrush
   409  Tall forb
   410  Alpine rangeland
   411  Aspen woodland
   415  Curlleaf mountain-mahogany
   416  True mountain-mahogany
   417  Littleleaf mountain-mahogany


HABITAT TYPES AND PLANT COMMUNITIES : 
Gooseberry currant occurs in subalpine forests and extends into alpine
communities throughout the West.

In addition to the plant associations and cover types listed in
preceding slots, gooseberry currant occurs in the gooseberry
currant/slender wheatgrass (Elymus trachycaulus) habitat type in Six
Mile Canyon, central Utah.  Associated grass species include California
brome (Bromus carinatus) and Letterman needlegrass (Stipa lettermanii)
[33].

Species associated with gooseberry currant but not previously mentioned
include:  Rocky Mountain maple (Acer glabrum), serviceberry (Amelanchier
spp.), bearberry (Arctostaphylos uva-ursi), Oregon-grape (Mahonia
repens), sedge (Carex spp.), rabbitbrush (Chrysothamnus spp.), field
horsetail (Equisetum arvense), strawberry (Fragaria spp.), common
juniper (Juniperus communis), woodrush (Luzula spp.), pachistima
(Pachistima myrsinites), sickletop lousewort (Pedicularis racemosa),
bluegrass (Poa spp.), skunkleaf polemonium (Polemonium pulcherrimum),
chokecherry (Prunus virginiana), bittercherry (P. emarginata), white
spiraea (Spiraea betulifolia), snowberry (Symphoricarpos spp.),
huckleberry (Vaccinium spp.), and beargrass (Xerophyllum tenax)
[1,2,7,23,24,29,35].

Gooseberry currant is listed as a dominant understory species in the
following publications:

  Fire ecology of the forest habitat types of eastern Idaho and western
    Wyoming [5]
  Coniferous forest habitat types of northern Utah [23]
  Aspen community types of the Pike and San Isabel National Forests in
    south-central Colorado [29]
  Coniferous forest habitat types of the Wind River Mountains, Wyoming [35]
  Forest habitat types of the South Warner Mountains, Modoc County,
    California [36]

Related categories for Species: Ribes montigenum | Gooseberry Currant