DISTRIBUTION AND OCCURRENCE
SPECIES: Rosa acicularis | Prickly Rose 



GENERAL DISTRIBUTION : 
Prickly rose is circumpolar in the boreal forest region.  It grows from
Alaska to Quebec and New England [72].  On the West Coast, its range
extends as far south as British Columbia.  It is found in Montana,
Wyoming, Colorado, and northern New Mexico in the Rocky Mountains, and
in North and South Dakota in the northern Great Plains [28,32,37,72].
It grows in the Lake States of Minnesota, Michigan, and Wisconsin, with
outlying populations as far south as Iowa and northwestern Illinois
[68].

Subspecies acicularis is primarily Eurasian but extends into Alaska;
subspecies sayi is American [28,69,72,87].


ECOSYSTEMS : 
   FRES10  White - red - jack pine
   FRES11  Spruce - fir
   FRES18  Maple - beech - birch
   FRES19  Aspen - birch
   FRES20  Douglas-fir
   FRES21  Ponderosa pine
   FRES23  Fir-spruce
   FRES26  Lodgepole pine


STATES : 
     AK  CO  CT  IL  IA  ME  MA  MI  MN  MT
     NH  NM  VT  WY  AB  BC  MB  ON  PQ  SK
     YT


ADMINISTRATIVE UNITS : 
     APIS  DENA  GRSA  ISRO  LACL  MORU
     ROMO  SLBE  VOYA  WRST  YELL  YUCH


BLM PHYSIOGRAPHIC REGIONS : 
    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 : 
   K008  Lodgepole pine - subalpine forest
   K012  Douglas-fir forest
   K015  Western spruce - fir forest
   K017  Black Hills pine forest
   K093  Great Lakes spruce - fir forest
   K095  Great Lakes pine forest
   K099  Maple - basswood forest


SAF COVER TYPES : 
     1  Jack pine
     5  Balsam fir
    12  Black spruce
    16  Aspen
    18  Paper birch
    21  Eastern white pine
    26  Sugar maple - basswood
   107  White spruce
   201  White spruce
   202  White spruce - paper birch
   203  Balsam poplar
   204  Black spruce
   206  Engelmann spruce - subalpine fir
   210  Interior Douglas-fir
   217  Aspen
   218  Lodgepole pine
   219  Limber pine
   227  Western redcedar - western hemlock
   237  Interior ponderosa pine
   251  White spruce - aspen
   252  Paper birch
   253  Black spruce - white spruce
   254  Black spruce - paper birch


SRM (RANGELAND) COVER TYPES : 
NO-ENTRY


HABITAT TYPES AND PLANT COMMUNITIES : 
Prickly rose is a characteristic species of boreal forests under white
spruce (Picea glauca) and relatively open black spruce (P. mariana).  It
is very common in northern hardwood forests composed of paper birch
(Betula papyrifera), quaking aspen (Populus tremuloides), and
cottonwood (Populus spp.), and in transitional zones between birch and
spruce forest [9].  It is less frequent in closed black spruce forests
[9].

At treeline in northern Alaska it is found with willows (Salix spp.),
alder (Alnus spp.), highbush cranberry (Viburnum edule), and herbs [79].
In British Columbia it is characteristic of boreal white spruce and
black spruce stands and also subboreal spruce (Picea glauca x
engelmannii) stands [42,61].

From Alaska south through Alberta into northern Montana, prickly rose is
common in quaking aspen parkland and extends into grasslands [3,16,46].
It also grows in balsam poplar (Populus balsamifera), white spruce, and
lodgepole pine (Pinus contorta) stands in Alberta [13] and in black
cottonwood (Populus trichocarpa) groves in northern Montana [46].  It
grows in Engelmann spruce (Picea engelmannii), subalpine fir (Abies
lasiocarpa), lodgepole pine, and Douglas-fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii)
stands in the northern Rocky Mountains [15,63,70], and with ponderosa
pine (Pinus ponderosa) and quaking aspen in the Bighorn Mountains of
Wyoming and the Black Hills of South Dakota [39,40,71].  In southern
Wyoming, it is only found with ponderosa pine [2].

Classifications listing prickly rose as an indicator or plant community
dominant are presented below:

Forest community types of west-central Alberta in relation to selected
  environmental factors [13]
Classification, description, and dynamics of plant communities after
  fire in the taiga of interior Alaksa [25]
Ecosystem classification and interpretation of the sub-boreal spruce
  zone, Prince Rupert Forest Region, British Columbia [61]

Related categories for Species: Rosa acicularis | Prickly Rose