DISTRIBUTION AND OCCURRENCE
SPECIES: Ribes oxyacanthoides | Northern Gooseberry 



GENERAL DISTRIBUTION : 
Ribes oxyacanthoides occurs across the boreal region of Canada from
Hudson Bay to Alaska.  It extends south into the United States in the
palouse prairie region of eastern Washington and Oregon through the
northern Rocky Mountains, the Black Hills, the Upper Missouri Basin, and
the Great Lakes States to Michigan.  Northern gooseberry occurs from
Alaska east throughout northern and western Canada to eastern Ontario,
south to northern Michigan, and west to eastern Wyoming and eastern
Montana.  Inland gooseberry occurs in the northern Rocky Mountains from
Montana and Idaho south to northern Utah.  In eastern Montana, eastern
Wyoming, and the western Dakotas, inland gooseberry intergrades with
northern gooseberry.  Sinnott [31] identified most herbarium specimens
collected from this region as northern gooseberry, but other authors
report inland gooseberry in this region [10,11,13,36].  Idaho gooseberry
occurs west of the Continental Divide from southeastern British Columbia
south to northeastern Oregon and east to western Montana.  Henderson's
gooseberry occurs in central Idaho, western Montana, and scattered
locations in Nevada [31].  Umatilla gooseberry occurs from southeastern
British Columbia south to northeastern Oregon, northern Idaho, and
northwestern Montana [31,22].


ECOSYSTEMS : 
   FRES10  White-red-jack pine
   FRES11  Spruce-fir
   FRES17  Elm-ash-cottonwood
   FRES19  Aspen-birch
   FRES20  Douglas-fir
   FRES21  Ponderosa pine
   FRES23  Fir-spruce
   FRES26  Lodgepole pine
   FRES28  Western hardwoods
   FRES29  Sagebrush
   FRES38  Plains grasslands


STATES : 
     AK  ID  MI  MN  MT  NE  NV  ND  OR  SD
     UT  WA  WI  WY  AB  BC  MB  NT  ON  SK
     YT


ADMINISTRATIVE UNITS : 
     BICA  ISRO  THRO  WICA  YELL


BLM PHYSIOGRAPHIC REGIONS : 
    5  Columbia Plateau
    6  Upper Basin and Range
    8  Northern Rocky Mountains
    9  Middle Rocky Mountains
   10  Wyoming Basin
   15  Black Hills Uplift
   16  Upper Missouri Basin and Broken Lands


KUCHLER PLANT ASSOCIATIONS : 
   K011  Western ponderosa forest
   K012  Douglas-fir forest
   K093  Great Lakes spruce-fir forest
   K095  Great Lakes pine forest
   K098  Northern floodplain forest
   K101  Elm-ash forest
   K106  Northern hardwoods


SAF COVER TYPES : 
     1  Jack pine
    16  Aspen
    63  Cottonwood
   201  White spruce
   210  Interior Douglas-fir
   217  Aspen
   218  Lodgepole pine
   219  Limber pine
   236  Bur oak
   237  Interior ponderosa pine


SRM (RANGELAND) COVER TYPES : 
   101  Bluebunch wheatgrass
   109  Ponderosa pine shrubland
   411  Aspen woodland
   422  Riparian


HABITAT TYPES AND PLANT COMMUNITIES : 
Inland gooseberry and Umatilla gooseberry commonly occur in riparian
communities.  In Utah, inland gooseberry occurs with quaking aspen
(Populus tremuloides), alder (Alnus spp.), birch (Betula spp.) and
willow (Salix spp.) [39].  Inland gooseberry occurs in a Booth willow
(S. boothii)/beaked sedge (Carex rostrata) community type in eastern
Idaho and western Wyoming [42].  In the Little Missouri National
Grasslands in southwestern North Dakota, inland gooseberry occurs in the
understory of a riparian woodland dominated by green ash (Fraxinus
pennsylvanica) and American elm (Ulmus americana).  Associated
understory shrubs include western snowberry (Symphoricarpos
occidentalis), Wood's rose (Rosa woodsii), Saskatoon serviceberry
(Amelanchier alnifolia), silver buffaloberry (Shepherdia argentea),
chokecherry (Prunus virginiana), American plum (Prunus americana),
raspberry (Rubus spp.), and hawthorn (Crataegus spp.)  [36].

Inland gooseberry occurs in a western snowberry community type and a
Rocky Mountain juniper (Juniperus scopulorum)/littleseed ricegrass
(Oryzopsis micrantha) habitat type in the Custer National Forest in
southeastern Montana [13].  In the Killdeer Mountains of southwestern
North Dakota, inland gooseberry occurs in a paper birch (Betula
papyrifera)/beaked hazel (Corylus cornuta) community type.  Bur oak
(Quercus macrocarpa) occurs in the canopy [10].  On drier sites, inland
gooseberry occurs with sagebrush (Artemisia spp.) and skunkbush sumac
(Rhus trilobata) [31].

Northern gooseberry occurs in openings within the lowland boreal forest
region of Canada.  Idaho gooseberry is commonly associated with conifers
[31].

Related categories for Species: Ribes oxyacanthoides | Northern Gooseberry