DISTRIBUTION AND OCCURRENCE
SPECIES: Rubus laciniatus | Evergreen Blackberry 



GENERAL DISTRIBUTION : 
The evergreen blackberry is a native of Eurasia [4] which has become
widely naturalized in North America.  It now occurs through much of the
Northwest, from British Columbia to northern California west of the
Cascades and eastward to Idaho [19,20].  Evergreen blackberry also grows
throughout much of New England, extending westward to Michigan and
southward to the Middle Atlantic States [4,33,36].  It is locally
established in parts of Montana, Wyoming, and Colorado [8,9,10].  It is
cultivated in Hawaii [43].


ECOSYSTEMS : 
   FRES10  White - red - jack pine
   FRES11  Spruce - fir
   FRES13  Loblolly - shortleaf pine
   FRES14  Oak - pine
   FRES15  Oak - hickory
   FRES18  Maple - beech - birch
   FRES20  Douglas-fir
   FRES23  Fir - spruce
   FRES24  Hemlock - Sitka spruce
   FRES25  Larch
   FRES28  Western hardwoods


STATES : 
     CA  CO  CT  DE  HI  ID  IN  MD  MA  MI
     MT  NJ  NY  NC  OH  OR  PA  RI  SC  VT
     VA  WV  WY  BC  ON


ADMINISTRATIVE UNITS : 
     GLAC  GRTE  MORA  NOCA  OLYM  REDW
     SAJH  WHIS


BLM PHYSIOGRAPHIC REGIONS : 
    1  Northern Pacific Border
    3  Southern Pacific Border
    5  Columbia Plateau
    8  Northern Rocky Mountains


KUCHLER PLANT ASSOCIATIONS : 
   K001  Spruce - cedar - hemlock forest
   K002  Cedar - hemlock - Douglas-fir forest
   K012  Douglas-fir forest
   K014  Grand fir - Douglas-fir forest
   K025  Alder - ash forest
   K093  Great Lakes spruce - fir forest
   K095  Great Lakes pine forest
   K096  Northeastern spruce - fir forest


SAF COVER TYPES : 
    21  Eastern white pine
    30  Red spruce - yellow birch
    31  Red spruce - sugar maple - beech
    60  Beech - sugar maple
    64  Sassafras - persimmon
    78  Virginia pine - oak
    79  Virginia pine
    80  Loblolly pine - shortleaf pine
    81  Loblolly pine
    82  Loblolly pine - hardwood
   109  Hawthorn
   210  Interior Douglas-fir
   213  Grand fir
   221  Red alder
   224  Western hemlock
   227  Western redcedar - western hemlock
   228  Western redcedar
   229  Pacific Douglas-fir
   230  Douglas-fir - western hemlock


SRM (RANGELAND) COVER TYPES : 
NO-ENTRY


HABITAT TYPES AND PLANT COMMUNITIES : 
Evergreen blackberry grows across a wide range of plant communities.  It
commonly occurs in oldfield communities of the Northeast and Middle
Atlantic States.  In the Pacific Northwest, this shrub grows in
Douglas-fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii)-western hemlock (Tsuga heterophylla)
and Sitka spruce (Picea sitchensis)-western hemlock forests [1,24].  In
many coniferous forests, it is particularly abundant on heavily thinned
or disturbed sites [24].  Evergreen blackberry grows in red alder
((Alnus rubra) communities of western Oregon [17] and in riparian
forests of the Central Valley and central coast of California with such
species as trailing blackberry (Rubus ursinus) and Himalayan blackberry
(R. discolor) [35].

Common associated understory species include thimbleberry (R.
parviflorus), salmonberry (R. spectabilis), huckleberry (Vaccinium
spp.), deerfern (Blechnum spicant), Oregon oxalis (Oxalis oregana), and
false lily-of-the-valley (Maianthemum dilatatum) [1].

Related categories for Species: Rubus laciniatus | Evergreen Blackberry