DISTRIBUTION AND OCCURRENCE
SPECIES: Smilax bona-nox | Saw Greenbrier 



GENERAL DISTRIBUTION : 
The range of saw greenbrier extends from Florida to Texas and eastern
Mexico, north to Maryland, Kentucky, southern Indiana, southern
Illinois, Missouri, and southeastern Kansas [12,16,17,34].


ECOSYSTEMS : 
   FRES12  Longleaf - slash pine
   FRES14  Oak - pine
   FRES15  Oak - hickory
   FRES17  Elm - ash - cottonwood


STATES : 
     AL  AR  FL  GA  IL  IN  KS  KY  LA  MD
     MS  MO  NC  OK  SC  TN  TX  VA  MEXICO


ADMINISTRATIVE UNITS : 
     ASIS  BICY  BITH  BLRI  CAHA  CALO
     CHCH  COLO  COSW  CUGA  CUIS  EVER
     FOCA  FODO  GWCA  GRSM  GUIS  HOBE
     HOSP  JELA  MACA  NATR  OBRI  OZAR
     RICH  SHIL  WICR


BLM PHYSIOGRAPHIC REGIONS : 
   14  Great Plains


KUCHLER PLANT ASSOCIATIONS : 
   K081  Oak savanna
   K082  Mosaic of K074 and K100
   K084  Cross Timbers
   K089  Black Belt
   K092  Everglades
   K100  Oak - hickory forest
   K104  Appalachian oak forest
   K105  Mangrove
   K111  Oak - hickory - pine forest
   K112  Southern mixed forest
   K114  Pocosin
   K115  Sand pine scrub
   K116  Subtropical pine forest


SAF COVER TYPES : 
    52  White oak - black oak - northern red oak
    53  White oak
    57  Yellow-poplar
    63  Cottonwood
    62  Silver maple - American elm
    70  Longleaf pine
    71  Longleaf pine - scrub oak
    73  Southern redcedar
    75  Shortleaf pine
    76  Shortleaf pine - oak
    78  Virginia pine - oak
    81  Loblolly pine
    82  Loblolly pine - hardwood
    83  Longleaf pine - slash pine
    87  Sweetgum - yellow-poplar
    88  Willow oak - water oak - diamondleaf oak
    89  Live oak
    92  Sweetgum - willow oak
    93  Sugarberry - American elm - green ash
    94  Sycamore - sweetgum - American elm
    97  Atlantic white-cedar
   102  Baldcypress - tupelo
   103  Water tupelo - swamp tupelo
   104  Sweetbay - swamp tupelo - redbay
   110  Black oak


SRM (RANGELAND) COVER TYPES : 
NO-ENTRY


HABITAT TYPES AND PLANT COMMUNITIES : 
Saw greenbrier occurs in a wide variety of habitat and community types,
and is not characteristic of any particular conditions.  Its most common
understory associates include muscadine grape (Vitus rotundifolia),
Virginia creeper (Parthenocissus quinquefolia), trumpetcreeper (Campsis
radicans), peppervine (Ampelopsis arborea), Alabama supplejack
(Berchemia scandens), and eastern poison-ivy (Toxicodendron radicans)
[2,6,11,25,39].

Related categories for Species: Smilax bona-nox | Saw Greenbrier