DISTRIBUTION AND OCCURRENCE
SPECIES: Rubus parviflorus | Thimbleberry 



GENERAL DISTRIBUTION : 
Thimbleberry grows from Alaska to California and the mountains of New
Mexico, and into northern Mexico [64,133].  It extends eastward through
the Dakotas to the Great Lakes States [64,133].  


ECOSYSTEMS : 
   FRES11  Spruce - fir
   FRES18  Maple - beech - birch
   FRES19  Aspen - birch
   FRES20  Douglas-fir
   FRES21  Ponderosa pine
   FRES22  Western white pine
   FRES23  Fir - spruce
   FRES24  Hemlock - Sitka spruce
   FRES25  Larch
   FRES26  Lodgepole pine
   FRES27  Redwood
   FRES28  Western hardwoods
   FRES34  Chaparral - mountain shrub
   FRES44  Alpine


STATES : 
     AK  AZ  CA  CO  ID  MI  MN  MT  NM  ND
     OR  SD  UT  WA  WY  AB  BC  ON  MEXICO


ADMINISTRATIVE UNITS : 
     APIS  BAND  CRLA  CRMO  DENA  GLAC
     GRCA  GRTE  ISRO  KICA  LAVO  MORA
     NOCA  OLYM  PIRO  PORE  REDW  ROMO
     SAJH  SEQU  TICA  VOYA  WHIS  YELL
     YOSE


BLM PHYSIOGRAPHIC REGIONS : 
    1  Northern Pacific Border
    2  Cascade Mountains
    3  Southern Pacific Border
    4  Sierra Mountains
    5  Columbia Plateau
    8  Northern Rocky Mountains
    9  Middle Rocky Mountains
   10  Wyoming Basin
   11  Southern Rocky Mountains
   12  Colorado Plateau


KUCHLER PLANT ASSOCIATIONS : 
   K001  Spruce - cedar - hemlock forest
   K002  Cedar - hemlock - Douglas-fir forest
   K003  Silver fir - Douglas-fir forest
   K004  Fir - hemlock forest
   K005  Mixed conifer forest
   K006  Redwood forest
   K007  Red fir forest
   K011  Western ponderosa forest
   K012  Douglas-fir forest
   K013  Cedar - hemlock - pine forest
   K014  Grand fir - Douglas-fir forest
   K015  Western spruce - fir forest
   K018  Pine - Douglas-fir forest
   K020  Spruce - fir - Douglas-fir forest
   K021  Southwestern spruce - fir forest
   K025  Alder - ash forest
   K029  California mixed evergreen forest
   K052  Alpine meadows and barren
   K093  Great Lakes spruce - fir forest
   K095  Great Lakes pine forest
   K106  Northern hardwoods
   K107  Northern hardwoods - fir forest
   K108  Northern hardwoods - spruce forest


SAF COVER TYPES : 
     5  Balsam fir
    16  Aspen
    18  Paper birch
    25  Sugar maple - beech - yellow birch
    27  Sugar maple
    37  Northern white cedar
   107  White spruce
   201  White spruce
   202  White spruce - paper birch
   206  Engelmann spruce - subalpine fir
   207  Red fir
   210  Interior Douglas-fir
   211  White fir
   212  Western larch
   213  Grand fir
   215  Western white pine
   217  Aspen
   218  Lodgepole pine
   221  Red alder
   222  Black cottonwood - willow
   223  Sitka spruce
   224  Western hemlock
   225  Western hemlock - Sitka spruce
   226  Coastal true fir - hemlock
   227  Western redcedar - western hemlock
   228  Western redcedar
   229  Pacific Douglas-fir
   230  Douglas-fir western hemlock
   232  Redwood
   233  Oregon white oak
   234  Douglas-fir - tanoak - Pacific madrone
   237  Interior ponderosa pine
   243  Sierra Nevada mixed conifer
   244  Pacific ponderosa pine - Douglas-fir
   245  Pacific ponderosa pine
   251  White spruce - aspen
   252  Paper birch


SRM (RANGELAND) COVER TYPES : 
NO-ENTRY


HABITAT TYPES AND PLANT COMMUNITIES : 
Thimbleberry is dominant or subdominant in a variety of forest and shrub
communities.  It has been included as a codominant in published
classifications with grand fir (Abies grandis), Shasta red fir (Abies
magnifica var. shastensis), red alder (Alnus rubra), Sitka spruce (Picea
sitchensis), Rocky Mountain maple (Acer glabrum), quaking aspen (Populus
tremuloides), trailing blackberry (Rubus ursinus), salmonberry (R.
spectabilis), black twinberry (Lonicera involucrata), dwarf bilberry
(Vaccinium myrtillus), twinflower (Linnaea borealis), western swordfern
(Polystichum munitum), bearded wheatgrass (Elymus trachycaulus ssp.
subsecundum), wild sarsaparilla (Aralia nudicaulis), brome (Bromus
spp.), pokeweed fleeceflower (Polygonum phytolaccaefolium), fireweed
(Epilobium angustifolium), fleabane (Erigeron eximus), and broadleaf
starflower (Trientalis latifolia).

Thimbleberry is listed as an indicator or dominant in the following
publications:

  1.  Classification of the forest vegetation of Colorado by habitat type and
        community type [2]
  2.  Forest vegetation on National Forests in the Rocky Mountain and
        Intermountain Regions: habitat and community types [3]
  3.  Plant communities and environmental relationships in a portion of the
        Tilmoook Burn, northwestern Oregon [6]
  4.  Synecological features of a natural headland prairie on the Oregon
        coast [23]
  5.  Climax forest series of northern New Mexico and southern Colorado [26]
  6.  A classification of forest habitat types of northern New Mexico and
        southern Colorado [27]
  7.  Forest habitat types in the Apache, Gila, and part of the Cibola
        National Forests, Arizona and New Mexico  [35]
  8.  Natural Vegetation of Oregon and Washington [39]
  9.  Ecoclass coding for the Pacific Northwest plant associations [49]
 10.  Plant association and management guide: Willamette National Forest [60]
 11.  A classification of spruce-fir and mixed conifer habitat types of
        Arizona and New Mexico [97]
 12. Aspen community types of the Intermountain Region [101]
 13. A forest habitat type classification of southern Arizona and its
        relationship to forests of the Sierra Madre Occidental of Mexico [102]
 14. Classification of quaking aspen stands in the Black Hills and Bear Lodge
        Mountains [115]
 15.  The grand fir/mountain maple habitat type in central Idaho: succession
        and management [116]
 16.  A classification of the Cercocarpus montanus, Quercus macrocarpa,
        Populus deltoides, & Pices glasuca habitat types of the Black
        Hills NF [117]

Common understory associates of thimbleberry include ceanothus
(Ceanothus spp.), snowberry (Symphoricarpos spp.), elderberry (Sambucus
spp.), gooseberry (Ribes spp.), willow (Salix spp.), tall Oregon-grape
(Berberis aquifolium), salal (Gautheria shallon), red huckleberry
(Vaccinium parvifolium), bigleaf maple (Acer macrophyllum), bittercherry
(Prunus emarginata), oceanspray (Holodiscus discolor), ninebark
(Physocarpus malvaceus), bracken, western swordfern (Polystichum
munitum), lupine (Lupinus spp.), common cow-parsnip (Heracleum lanatum),
and fireweed (Epilobium angustifolium) [4,13,16,29].

Related categories for Species: Rubus parviflorus | Thimbleberry