DISTRIBUTION AND OCCURRENCE
SPECIES: Vaccinium angustifolium | Low Sweet Blueberry 



GENERAL DISTRIBUTION : 
Low sweet blueberry grows from Labrador and Newfoundland westward to
southern Manitoba and Minnesota [160].  It extends southward to northern
Illinois in the West, and from New England through the Appalachians to
West Virginia and Virginia in the East [70,119,157].


ECOSYSTEMS : 
   FRES10  White - red - jack pine
   FRES11  Spruce - fir
   FRES14  Oak - pine
   FRES15  Oak - hickory
   FRES17  Elm - ash - cottonwood
   FRES18  Maple - beech - birch
   FRES19  Aspen - birch


STATES : 
     CT  DE  IA  IL  IN  ME  MA  MI  MN  NH
     NJ  NY  NC  OH  PA  RI  TN  VT  VA  WV
     WI  LB  MB  NB  NF  NS  ON  PE  PQ  SK


ADMINISTRATIVE UNITS : 
     ACAD  APIS  ALPO  BLRI  CACO  CUVA
     DEWA  FIIS  GRSM  INDU  ISRO  MANA
     PIRO  SHEN  SLBE  VOYA


BLM PHYSIOGRAPHIC REGIONS : 
NO-ENTRY


KUCHLER PLANT ASSOCIATIONS : 
   K081  Oak savanna
   K094  Conifer bog
   K095  Great Lakes pine forest
   K096  Northeastern spruce - fir forest
   K100  Oak - hickory forest
   K106  Northern hardwoods
   K107  Northern hardwoods - fir forest
   K108  Northern hardwoods - spruce forest
   K109  Transition between K104 and K106
   K110  Northeastern oak - pine forest
   K111  Oak - hickory - pine forest


SAF COVER TYPES : 
     1  Jack pine
     5  Balsam fir
    12  Black spruce
    13  Black spruce - tamarack
    14  Northern pin oak
    15  Red pine
    16  Aspen
    18  Paper birch
    20  White pine - northern red oak - red maple
    21  Eastern white pine
    24  Hemlock - yellow birch
    25  Sugar maple - beech - yellow birch
    27  Sugar maple
    30  Red spruce - yellow birch
    32  Red spruce
    33  Red spruce - balsam fir
    34  Red spruce - Fraser fir
    35  Paper birch - red spruce - balsam fir
    37  Northern white-cedar 
    39  Black ash - American elm - red maple
    43  Bear oak
    44  Chestnut oak
    51  White pine - chestnut oak
    52  White pine - black oak - northern red oak
    53  White oak
    55  Northern red oak
    60  Beech - sugar maple
   107  White spruce
   108  Red maple
   110  Black oak


SRM (RANGELAND) COVER TYPES : 
NO-ENTRY


HABITAT TYPES AND PLANT COMMUNITIES : 
Low sweet blueberry occurs as an understory dominant or codominant in a
variety of forest communities.  Common overstory dominants include
eastern white pine (Pinus strobus), jack pine (P. banksiana), sugar
maple (Acer saccharum), red maple (A. rubrum), and northern red oak
(Quercus rubra).  Common codominants include Canada beadruby
(Maianthemum canadense), pointed-leaved tick trefoil (Desmodium
glutinosum), mapleleaf viburnum (Viburnum acerifolium), and hairgrass
(Deschampsia spp.).  Low sweet blueberry is listed as an indicator or
dominant spceies in the following habitat type classifications:

Field guide: Habitat classification system for Upper Peninsula of
  Michigan and Northeast Wisconsin [43]
Field guide to forest habitat types of northern Wisconsin [98].

Related categories for Species: Vaccinium angustifolium | Low Sweet Blueberry