DISTRIBUTION AND OCCURRENCE
SPECIES: Shepherdia canadensis | Russet Buffaloberry 



GENERAL DISTRIBUTION : 
Russet buffaloberry is found from Nova Scotia, southwest across Maine to
western New York and northern Ohio, west to the Black Hills of South
Dakota and Alaska, avoiding most of the Great Basin.  From Alaska it
follows the Rocky Mountains south to Arizona and New Mexico and extends
east across northern Canada to Newfoundland.  The northern limits are
within the Arctic Circle [6,35,37,50,52,57].


ECOSYSTEMS : 
   FRES10  White - red - jack pine
   FRES11  Spruce - fir
   FRES15  Oak - hickory
   FRES17  Elm - ash - cottonwood
   FRES19  Aspen - birch
   FRES20  Douglas-fir
   FRES21  Ponderosa pine
   FRES23  Fir - spruce
   FRES25  Larch
   FRES26  Lodgepole pine
   FRES28  Western hardwoods
   FRES29  Sagebrush
   FRES34  Chaparral - mountain shrub
   FRES35  Pinyon - juniper
   FRES38  Plains grasslands
   FRES44  Alpine


STATES : 
     AK  AZ  CA  CO  ID  ME  MA  MI  MN  MT
     NV  NH  NM  NY  OH  OR  PA  SD  UT  VT
     WA  WI  WY  AB  BC  MB  NB  NF  NT  NS
     ON  PQ  SK  YT


ADMINISTRATIVE UNITS : 
     APIS  BIHO  BICA  BRCA  CEBR  CODA
     CUVA  DENA  FOBU  GLBA  GLAC  GRCA
     GRTE  ISRO  JECA  LACL  MORU  NOCA
     OLYM  ROMO  SAJH  SLBE  TICA  VOYA
     WICA  WRST  YELL  YUCH


BLM PHYSIOGRAPHIC REGIONS : 
    2  Cascade Mountains
    4  Sierra Mountains
    5  Columbia Plateau
    6  Upper Basin and Range
    8  Northern Rocky Mountains
    9  Middle Rocky Mountains
   11  Southern Rocky Mountains
   12  Colorado Plateau
   13  Rocky Mountain Piedmont
   15  Black Hills Uplift


KUCHLER PLANT ASSOCIATIONS : 
   K002  Cedar - hemlock - Douglas-fir forest
   K008  Lodgepole pine - subalpine forest
   K010  Ponderosa shrub forest
   K011  Western ponderosa forest
   K012  Douglas-fir forest
   K014  Grand fir - Douglas-fir forest
   K015  Western spruce - fir forest
   K016  Eastern ponderosa forest
   K017  Black Hills pine forest
   K018  Pine - Douglas-fir forest
   K019  Arizona pine forest
   K020  Spruce - fir - Douglas-fir forest
   K021  Southwestern spruce - fir forest
   K023  Juniper - pinyon woodland
   K025  Alder - ash forest
   K037  Mountain mahogany - oak scrub
   K038  Great Basin sagebrush
   K052  Alpine meadows and barren
   K055  Sagebrush steppe
   K056  Wheatgrass - needlegrass shrubsteppe
   K063  Foothills prairie
   K064  Grama - needlegrass - wheatgrass
   K066  Wheatgrass - needlegrass
   K081  Oak savanna
   K093  Great Lakes spruce - fir forest
   K095  Great Lakes pine forest
   K096  Northeastern spruce - fir forest
   K097  Southeastern spruce - fir forest
   K098  Northern floodplain forest
   K107  Northern hardwoods - fir forest
   K108  Northern hardwoods - spruce forest


SAF COVER TYPES : 
     1  Jack pine
     5  Balsam fir
    15  Red pine
    16  Aspen
    22  White pine - hemlock
    32  Red spruce
    33  Red spruce - balsam fir
    34  Red spruce - Fraser fir
    35  Paper birch - red spruce - balsam fir
    39  Black ash - American elm - red maple
    42  Bur oak
   107  White spruce
   201  White spruce
   206  Engelmann spruce - subalpine fir
   208  Whitebark pine
   210  Interior Douglas-fir
   211  White fir
   212  Western larch
   216  Blue spruce
   217  Aspen
   218  Lodgepole pine
   219  Limber pine
   221  Red alder
   230  Douglas-fir - western hemlock
   236  bur oak
   237  Interior ponderosa pine
   238  Western juniper
   239  Pinyon - juniper
   251  White spruce - aspen


SRM (RANGELAND) COVER TYPES : 
NO-ENTRY


HABITAT TYPES AND PLANT COMMUNITIES : 
Russet buffaloberry occurs in the understory of plant communities.
Dominant overstory species vary by geographic location and include:
subalpine fir (Abies lasiocarpa) and ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa) in
Montana [37]; spruce (Picea spp.) and fir (Abies spp.) in the northern
and far northern Rocky Mountains [8]; subalpine fir, white spruce (P.
glauca), Douglas-fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii), and quaking aspen (Populus
tremuloides) in southern British Columbia [54]; white spruce, lodgepole
pine (Pinus contorta), and quaking aspen in Alberta [29,37]; white
spruce in the Yukon Territory [37]; quaking aspen in interior Alaska
[37,57]; and old-growth lodgepole pine with a mixture of Engelmann
spruce (Picea engelmannii) and subalpine fir in Colorado [1].

Russet buffaloberry occurs as a dominant or subdominant in the following
habitat type (hts) and community type (cts) classification systems:

Area                    Classification          Authority

CO:  Arapaho and        forest hts              Hess and Alexander 1986
      Roosevelt NF        
     White River and    grassland, shrubland,   Hess and Wasser 1982
      Arapaho NF         and forest hts
     Rout NF            forest hts              Hoffman and Alexander 1980
MT                      forest hts              Pfister, Kovalchick,
                                                Arno, and Presby 1977
WY:  Bighorn Mts.       forest hts              Hoffman and Alexander 1976
     Wind River Mts.    forest hts              Reed 1976
Intermountain
Region                  aspen cts               Mueggler 1988
                                                

Related categories for Species: Shepherdia canadensis | Russet Buffaloberry