DISTRIBUTION AND OCCURRENCE
SPECIES: Rubus chamaemorus | Cloudberry 



GENERAL DISTRIBUTION : 
Cloudberry has a circumboreal distribution.  In North America it occurs
from Alaska, across Canada to Greenland and Labrador and south to New
York [1,16,30].


ECOSYSTEMS : 
   FRES10  White - red - jack pine
   FRES11  Spruce - fir
   FRES19  Aspen - birch
   FRES24  Hemlock - Sitka spruce


STATES : 
     AK  CT  ME  MA  NH  NY  RI  AB  BC  NB
     NF  NT  NS  ON  PE  PQ  YT


ADMINISTRATIVE UNITS : 
     ACAD  BELA  DENA  GAAR  KOVA  LACL
     WRST  YUCH


BLM PHYSIOGRAPHIC REGIONS : 
NO-ENTRY


KUCHLER PLANT ASSOCIATIONS : 
   K001  Spruce - cedar - hemlock forest
   K094  Conifer bog
   K095  Great Lakes pine forest
   K096  Northeastern spruce - fir forest
   K108  Northern hardwoods - spruce forest


SAF COVER TYPES : 
     1  Jack pine
    12  Black spruce
    13  Black spruce - tamarack
    16  Aspen
    17  Pin cherry
   107  White spruce
   223  Sitka spruce
   225  Western hemlock - Sitka spruce


SRM (RANGELAND) COVER TYPES : 
NO-ENTRY


HABITAT TYPES AND PLANT COMMUNITIES : 
Cloudberry occurs as a dominant or codominant in a variety of habitats
within its range.  It occurs as an understory component in open or
closed forest habitats, primarily in the black spruce-sphagnum (Picea
mariana-Sphagnum spp.) community type.  Cloudberry also dominates or
codominates in dwarf-shrub types, bogs, muskegs, and open tussock tundra
[3,6,7,26].

The following publications list cloudberry as a dominant or codominant
species: 

Forest community types of west-central Alberta in relation to selected
  environmental factors [6]
Preliminary forest plant association management guide [7]
Vegetation types in northwestern Alaska and comparisons with communities
  in other Artic regions [13]
Classification and ordination of southern boreal forest from the
  Hondo-Slave Lake area of central Alberta [19]
The vegetation and retrogressive changes of peat areas ("muskegs") in
  central Alberta [21]
Classification of peatlands in Newfoundland [27]

Associated understory species of cloudberry include dwarf arctic birch
(Betula nana), bog birch (B. glandulosa), red raspberry (Rubus idaeus),
bog labrador tea (Ledum groenlandicum), low sweet blueberry (Vaccinium
angustifolium), Saskatoon serviceberry (Amelanchier alnifolia), bog
laurel (Kalmia polifolia), feathermoss (Pleurozium schreberi), reindeer
lichens (Cladonia spp.), and sphagnum mosses [2,7,13].

Related categories for Species: Rubus chamaemorus | Cloudberry