DISTRIBUTION AND OCCURRENCE
SPECIES: Ribes velutinum | Desert Gooseberry 



GENERAL DISTRIBUTION : 
Desert gooseberry ranges east from southeastern Washington and eastern
Oregon to Idaho, south to Arizona, and west to the Tehachapi Mountains
of California and the Sierra Nevada [8,9,28].


ECOSYSTEMS : 
   FRES21  Ponderosa pine
   FRES29  Sagebrush
   FRES34  Chaparral-mountain shrub
   FRES35  Pinyon-juniper


STATES : 
     AZ  CA  ID  NV  OR  UT  WA


ADMINISTRATIVE UNITS : 
     DEVA  GRCA  LAME  LABE  ZION


BLM PHYSIOGRAPHIC REGIONS : 
    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 : 
   K010  Ponderosa shrub forest
   K011  Western ponderosa forest
   K022  Great Basin pine forest
   K023  Juniper-pinyon woodland
   K024  Juniper steppe woodland
   K031  Oak-juniper woodlands
   K032  Transition between K031 and K037
   K037  Mountain-mahogany-oak scrub
   K038  Great Basin sagebrush
   K055  Sagebrush steppe


SAF COVER TYPES : 
   217  Aspen
   220  Rocky Mountain juniper
   237  Interior ponderosa pine
   238  Western juniper
   239  Pinyon-juniper


SRM (RANGELAND) COVER TYPES : 
   104  Antelope bitterbrush-bluebunch wheatgrass
   105  Antelope bitterbrush-Idaho fescue
   107  Western juniper/big sagebrush/bluebunch wheatgrass
   109  Ponderosa pine shrubland
   209  Montane shrubland
   210  Bitterbrush
   314  Big sagebrush-bluebunch wheatgrass
   315  Big sagebrush-Idaho fescue
   317  Bitterbrush-bluebunch wheatgrass
   318  Bitterbrush-Idaho fescue
   322  Curlleaf mountain-mahogany-bluebunch wheatgrass
   401  Basin big sagebrush
   402  Mountain big sagebrush
   403  Wyoming big sagebrush
   406  Low sagebrush
   407  Stiff sagebrush
   412  Juniper-pinyon woodland
   415  Curlleaf mountain-mahogany
   416  True mountain-mahogany
   417  Littleleaf mountain-mahogany
   419  Bittercherry
   420  Snowbrush
   421  Chokecherry-serviceberry-rose
   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 : 
Desert gooseberry occurs in sagebrush and mountain brush communities,
coniferous forests, and woodlands in the Great Basin and adjacent
mountains.

In addition to the plant associations and cover types listed in
preceding slots, desert gooseberry occurs in the desert gooseberry/basin
wildrye (Leymus cinereus) community along the northern periphery of Lava
Beds National Monument, California [4].

Species commonly associated with desert gooseberry but not previously
mentioned include California red fir (Abies magnifica), white fir (A.
concolor), mountain hemlock (Tsuga mertensiana), sugar pine (Pinus
lambertiana), whitebark pine (P. albicaulis) Jeffrey pine (P. jeffreyi),
Douglas-fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii), singleleaf pinyon (Pinus
monophylla), serviceberry (Amelanchier spp.), spiny hopsage (Grayia
spinosa), cheatgrass (Bromus tectorum), rabbitbrush (Chrysothamnus
spp.), broom snakeweed (Gutierrezia sarothrae), wax currant (Ribes
cereum), bottlebrush squirreltail (Elymus elymoides), western
needlegrass (Stipa occidentalis), and horsebrush (Tetradymia spp.)
[4,33,34,35].

Related categories for Species: Ribes velutinum | Desert Gooseberry