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DISTRIBUTION AND OCCURRENCE

SPECIES: Toxicodendron radicans | Poison-Ivy
GENERAL DISTRIBUTION : The range of poison-ivy extends from southern Ontario east to Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island [47,59,70,103]. Poison-ivy occurs in all states east of the southern Cascades, Great Basin, and Mojave Desert [39,41,60,95,104]. Populations continue southward through Central America to Guatemala [18,39,40,60,112]. Poison-ivy is also native to eastern Asia [39]. Although poison-ivy has been listed as occurring in the following parks, it is probably misindentified, as these parks are within the range limits of western poison-ivy (Toxicondendron rydbergii): Arches National Park (ARCH), Canyonlands National Park (CANY), Capitol Reef National Park (CARE), Coulee Dam Recreation Area (CODA), Glacier National Park (GLAC), Grand Teton National Park (GRTE), Gulf Islands National Seashore (GUIS), John Day Fossil Beds National Monument (JODA), Natchez Trace Parkway (NATR), Natural Bridges National Monument (NABR), Timpanogos Cave National Monument (TICA), Yellowstone National Park (YELL), Zion National Park (ZION). [See the western poison ivy write-up in the FEIS data base.] ECOSYSTEMS : FRES12 Longleaf - slash pine FRES13 Loblolly - shortleaf pine FRES14 Oak - pine FRES15 Oak - hickory FRES16 Oak - gum - cypress FRES17 Elm - ash - cottonwood FRES18 Maple - beech - birch FRES19 Aspen - birch FRES21 Ponderosa pine FRES33 Southwestern shrubsteppe FRES35 Pinyon - juniper FRES38 Plains grasslands FRES39 Prairie STATES : AL AZ AR CO CT DE FL GA IL IN IA KS KY LA ME MD MA MI MO NH NJ NM NY NC ND OH OK PA RI SC SD TN TX VT VA WV NS ON PE PQ MEXICO ADMINISTRATIVE UNITS : ACAD ALPO ANTI ASIS BADL BAND BIBE BICY BISO BITH BLRI BUFF CACH CACO CAHA CALO CACA CATO CHCH COLO COSW CORO CUGA CUIS CUVA DEWA DINO EFMO EVER FIIS FOBO FODO GATE GWCA GWMP GRSM GUMO HOBE HOSP INDU ISRO JECA JOFL LAMR MACA MANA MEVE MORR NERI OBRI OZAR PIRO RICH ROCR ROMO SAGU SHEN SHIL SLBE THRO VAFO WACA WICR BLM PHYSIOGRAPHIC REGIONS : 7 Lower Basin and Range 13 Rocky Mountain Piedmont 14 Great Plains 16 Upper Missouri Basin and Broken Lands KUCHLER PLANT ASSOCIATIONS : K023 Juniper - pinyon woodland K024 Juniper steppe woodland K031 Oak - juniper woodlands K061 Mesquite - acacia savanna K067 Wheatgrass - bluestem - needlegrass K069 Bluestem - grama prairie K072 Sea oats prairie K079 Palmetto prairie K080 Marl - everglades K081 Oak savanna K086 Juniper - oak savanna K091 Cypress savanna K098 Northern floodplain forest K099 Maple - basswood forest K100 Oak - hickory forest K101 Elm - ash forest K102 Beech - maple forest K103 Mixed mesophytic forest K104 Appalachian oak forest K106 Northern hardwoods K110 Northeastern oak - pine forest K111 Oak - hickory - pine forest K112 Southern mixed forest K113 Southern floodplain forest SAF COVER TYPES : 14 Northern pin oak 20 White pine - northern red oak - red maple 24 Hemlock - yellow birch 25 Sugar maple - beech - yellow birch 26 Sugar maple - basswood 27 Sugar maple 40 Post oak - blackjack oak 42 Bur oak 52 White oak - black oak - northern red oak 53 White oak 59 Yellow-poplar - white oak - northern red oak 60 Beech - sugar maple 61 River birch - sycamore 62 Silver maple - American elm 63 Cottonwood 64 Sassafras - persimmon 65 Pin oak - sweetgum 70 Longleaf pine 71 Longleaf pine - scrub oak 74 Cabbage palmetto 75 Shortleaf pine 76 Shortleaf pine - oak 80 Loblolly pine - shortleaf pine 81 Loblolly pine 82 Loblolly pine - hardwood 83 Longleaf pine - slash pine 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 95 Black willow 96 Overcup oak - water hickory 97 Atlantic white-cedar 98 Pond pine 100 Pondcypress 101 Baldcypress 102 Baldcypress - tupelo 108 Red maple SRM (RANGELAND) COVER TYPES : NO-ENTRY HABITAT TYPES AND PLANT COMMUNITIES : Poison-ivy is not an indicator or uniquely associated with a particular community type [119]. It is a dominant understory plant in Gambel oak (Quercus gambelii) community type [80]. Poison-ivy was one of the seven most frequently occurring plants in the herbaceous layer of a shagbark hickory (Carya ovata) community type. There were an average of 3,540 stems per acre (8741 stems/ha), with 80 individuals attaining a size class 2 (0.01-0.5 inch [0.03-1.3 cm] d.b.h.) [113]. Poison-ivy was an understory dominant in a northern pin oak (Quercus ellipsoidalis)- cherrybark oak (Quercus falcata var. pagodaefolia) community. Poison-ivy occurred with 55 percent relative frequency in the Wisconsin habitat type white pine/hog peanut (Pinus strobus/Amphicarpa bracteata) [63]. Poison-ivy is subdominant in Nebraska smooth sumac-American hazel (Rhus glabra-Corylus americana) associes, bur oak-bitternut hickory (Quercus macrocarpa-Carya cordiformis) associes, and green ash-American elm (Fraxinus pennsylvanica-Ulmus americana) associes [3]. It is subdominant in buffaloberry (Shepherdia argentea) communities in North Dakota [51]. Poison-ivy occurs in the spike grass-beardgrass-croton (Uniola laxa-Andropogon spp.-Croton glandulosus) community type [10]. Poison-ivy is listed as a dominant in the following community or habitat type publications: (1) Phytogeographia Laurentiana. II. The principal plant associations of the Saint Lawrence Valley [20]. (2) The "big woods" of Minnesota: its structure, and relation to climate, fire, and soils [21]. (3) Field guide to forest habitat types of northern Wisconsin [63]. (4) Woodland communities and soils of Fort Bayard, southwestern New Mexico [80]. (5) An ecological investigation of the oakwood bottoms Greentree Reservoir in Illinois [113].

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