DISTRIBUTION AND OCCURRENCE
SPECIES: Rubus canadensis | Thornless Blackberry 



GENERAL DISTRIBUTION : 
Thornless blackberry's range extends from Newfoundland to Ontario and
along the Atlantic Coast south to Georgia and inland to Kentucky and
Tennessee  [27,32,35].


ECOSYSTEMS : 
   FRES10  White - red - jack pine
   FRES11  Spruce - fir
   FRES14  Oak - pine
   FRES15  Oak - hickory
   FRES18  Maple - beech - birch
   FRES19  Aspen - birch


STATES : 
     CT  DE  GA  KY  ME  MD  MA  MI  MN  NH
     NY  NC  PA  RI  SC  TN  VT  VA  WV  WI
     NB  NF  NS  ON  PQ


ADMINISTRATIVE UNITS : 
     BLRI  NERI


BLM PHYSIOGRAPHIC REGIONS : 
NO-ENTRY


KUCHLER PLANT ASSOCIATIONS : 
   K093  Great Lakes spruce - fir forest
   K095  Great Lakes pine forest
   K096  Northeastern spruce - fir forest
   K097  Southeastern spruce - fir forest
   K099  Maple - basswood forest
   K100  Oak - hickory forest
   K102  Beech - maple forest
   K103  Mixed mesophytic forest
   K104  Appalachian oak forest
   K107  Northern hardwoods - fir forest
   K108  Northern hardwoods - spruce forest
   K111  Oak - hickory - pine forest
   K112  Southern mixed forest


SAF COVER TYPES : 
     5  Balsam fir
    14  Northern pin oak
    17  Pin cherry
    18  Paper birch
    23  Eastern hemlock
    24  Hemlock - yellow birch
    25  Sugar maple - beech - yellow birch
    27  Sugar maple
    30  Red spruce - yellow birch
    31  Red spruce - sugar maple - beech
    32  Red spruce
    33  Red spruce - balsam fir
    34  Red spruce - Fraser fir
    35  Paper birch - red spruce - balsam fir
    42  Bur oak
    45  Pitch pine
    46  Eastern redcedar
    53  White oak
    57  Yellow-poplar
    58  Yellow-poplar - eastern hemlock
    59  Yellow-poplar - white oak - northern red oak
    60  Beech - sugar maple


SRM (RANGELAND) COVER TYPES : 
NO-ENTRY


HABITAT TYPES AND PLANT COMMUNITIES : 
Thornless blackberry is a common understory species in open deciduous
forests, on mountain ridges, and in disturbed areas [4,15,19,20,22].

Common understory associates of thornless blackberry include mountain
maple (Acer spicatum), serviceberry (Amelanchier spp.), hobblebush
(Viburnum alnifolium), scarlet elder (Sambucus pubens), common
blackberry (Rubus allegheniensis), beaked hazel (Corylus cornuta),
southern mountain cranberry (Vaccinium erythrocarpum), minnie-bush
(Menziesia pilosa), and rosebay (Rhododendron catawbiense)
[1,24,28,31].

Related categories for Species: Rubus canadensis | Thornless Blackberry