DISTRIBUTION AND OCCURRENCE
SPECIES: Sorbus americana | American Mountain-Ash 



GENERAL DISTRIBUTION : 
American mountain-ash occurs in northeastern North America from
Newfoundland and Nova Scotia south to New Jersey and Pennsylvania and in
the mountains to South Carolina and Georgia, west to Minnesota and
eastern North and South Dakota [10,12,20,21].


ECOSYSTEMS : 
   FRES10  White - red - jack pine
   FRES11  Spruce - fir
   FRES18  Maple - beech - birch
   FRES19  Aspen - birch


STATES : 
     CT  GA  IL  KY  ME  MD  MA  MI  MN  NH
     NJ  NY  NC  ND  OH  PA  RI  SC  SD  TN
     VT  VA  WI  MB  NB  NF  NS  ON  PE  PQ


ADMINISTRATIVE UNITS : 
     ACAD  APIS  BLRI  DEWA  GRSM  PIRO
     SHEN  VOYA


BLM PHYSIOGRAPHIC REGIONS : 
NO-ENTRY


KUCHLER PLANT ASSOCIATIONS : 
   K093  Great Lakes spruce - fir forest
   K095  Great Lakes pine forest
   K096  Northeastern spruce - fir forest
   K097  Southeastern spruce - fir forest
   K099  Maple - basswood forest
   K100  Oak - hickory forest
   K102  Beech - maple forest
   K103  Mixed mesophytic forest
   K104  Appalachian oak forest
   K106  Northern hardwoods
   K107  Northern hardwoods - fir forest
   K108  Northern hardwoods - spruce forest


SAF COVER TYPES : 
     1  Jack pine
     5  Balsam fir
    12  Black spruce
    13  Black spruce - tamarack
    15  Red pine
    16  Aspen
    17  Pin cherry
    18  Paper birch
    19  Gray birch - red maple
    20  White pine - northern red oak - red maple
    21  Eastern white pine
    22  White pine - hemlock
    23  Eastern hemlock
    24  Hemlock - yellow birch
    25  Sugar maple - beech - yellow birch
    26  Sugar maple - basswood
    27  Sugar maple
    28  Black cherry - maple
    51  White pine - chestnut oak
    60  Beech - sugar maple
   107  White spruce
   108  Red maple


SRM (RANGELAND) COVER TYPES : 
NO-ENTRY


HABITAT TYPES AND PLANT COMMUNITIES : 
American mountain-ash is listed as codominant with balsam fir (Abies
balsamea) on Isle Royale, Michigan.  The primary associates in the shrub
layer include American yew (Taxus canadensis), mountain maple (Acer
spicatum), and honeysuckle (Lonicera canadensis).  Ground layer
associates include yellow beadlily (Clintonia borealis), northern
clubmoss (Lycopodium annotium), twinflower (Linnea borealis), woodfern
(Dryopteris disjuncta), naked miterwort (Mitella nuda), alpine circaea
(Circaea alpina), wild sarsaparilla (Aralia nudicaulis), and red
raspberry (Rubus idaeus var. strugosis) [19].

Related categories for Species: Sorbus americana | American Mountain-Ash