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DISTRIBUTION AND OCCURRENCE

SPECIES: Salix brachycarpa | Barren-Ground Willow
GENERAL DISTRIBUTION : Barren-ground willow grows throughout Alaska except for the Aleutian Islands and along the southeastern coast. In northern Canada it grows from the Yukon Territory to adjacent British Columbia and east to the Hudson Bay. In the contiguous United States barren-ground willow grows from the Canadian border southward in the cordilleras to Utah and Colorado [3,7,15,19]. ECOSYSTEMS : FRES11 Spruce - fir FRES23 Fir - spruce FRES44 Alpine STATES : AK CO ID MT OR UT WA WY AB BC MB NY SK YT ADMINISTRATIVE UNITS : DENA FLFO GLAC LACL YUCH BLM PHYSIOGRAPHIC REGIONS : 8 Northern Rocky Mountains 9 Middle Rocky Mountains 10 Wyoming Basin 11 Southern Rocky Mountains KUCHLER PLANT ASSOCIATIONS : K015 Western spruce - fir forest K052 Alpine meadows and barren SAF COVER TYPES : 12 Black spruce 107 White spruce 201 White spruce 204 Black spruce 206 Engelmann spruce - subalpine fir 251 White spruce - aspen 253 Black spruce - white spruce SRM (RANGELAND) COVER TYPES : NO-ENTRY HABITAT TYPES AND PLANT COMMUNITIES : Barren-ground willow codominates in several willow and mixed shrub floodplain communities in Alaska and northern Canada [2]. In northwestern Colorado, it is a codominant along rivers and streams along with diamondleaf willow (Salix planifolia), marsh marigold (Caltha leptosepala), and water sedge (Carex aquatilis) [3]. Other riparian community associates include Alaska willow (S. alaxensis), littletree willow (S. arbusculoides), grayleaf willow (S. glauca), and alders (Alnus spp.) [4,18].

Related categories for Species: Salix brachycarpa | Barren-Ground Willow

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