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DISTRIBUTION AND OCCURRENCE

SPECIES: Vaccinium caespitosum | Dwarf Huckleberry
GENERAL DISTRIBUTION : Dwarf huckleberry grows from Labrador, westward through subarctic North America to south-central Alaska [8,40]. It extends southward through the Cascades into California and through the Rocky Mountains to Colorado and New Mexico [33,40]. In eastern North America, dwarf huckleberry grows southward through New England to New York and reaches portions of northern Michigan and Minnesota to the west [8,61,68]. Disjunct populations have been reported in certain mountainous areas of northern Mexico [8]. ECOSYSTEMS : FRES11 Spruce - fir FRES19 Aspen - birch FRES20 Douglas-fir FRES21 Ponderosa pine FRES23 Fir - spruce FRES24 Hemlock - Sitka spruce FRES25 Larch FRES26 Lodgepole pine FRES28 Western hardwoods FRES37 Mountain meadows FRES44 Alpine STATES : AK AZ CA CO ID ME MI MN MT NV NH NM NY OR UT VT WA WI WY AB BC LB PQ MEXICO ADMINISTRATIVE UNITS : GLAC YELL BLM PHYSIOGRAPHIC REGIONS : 2 Cascade Mountains 4 Sierra Mountains 5 Columbia Plateau 6 Upper Basin and Range 8 Northern Rocky Mountains 10 Wyoming Basin 11 Southern Rocky Mountains 12 Colorado Plateau KUCHLER PLANT ASSOCIATIONS : K002 Cedar - hemlock - Douglas-fir forest K011 Western ponderosa forest K012 Douglas-fir forest K014 Grand fir - Douglas-fir forest K015 Western spruce - fir forest K018 Pine - Douglas-fir forest K020 Spruce - fir - Douglas-fir forest K021 Southwestern spruce - fir forest K052 Alpine meadows and barren K093 Great Lakes spruce - fir forest K096 Northeastern spruce - fir forest SAF COVER TYPES : 5 Balsam fir 12 Black spruce 18 Paper birch 35 Paper birch - red spruce - balsam fir 107 White spruce 201 White spruce 202 White spruce - paper birch 206 Engelmann spruce - subalpine fir 210 Interior Douglas-fir 212 Western larch 213 Grand fir 217 Aspen 218 Lodgepole pine 224 Western hemlock 230 Douglas-fir - western hemlock 252 Paper birch SRM (RANGELAND) COVER TYPES : NO-ENTRY HABITAT TYPES AND PLANT COMMUNITIES : Dwarf huckleberry occurs as an understory dominant or codominant in high elevation spruce (Picea spp.)-fir (Abies spp.) forests throughout much of western North America. It also grows, often in great abundance, in some relatively moist Douglas-fir (Pseudotsuga menziesia), quaking aspen (Populus tremuloides), and lodgepole pine (Pinus contorta) communities. Common understory codominants in these western forests include bog Labrador tea (Ledum groenlandicum), grouse whortleberry (Vaccinium scoparium), queencup beadlily (Clintonia uniflora), and bluejoint reedgrass (Calamagrostis canadensis). Dwarf huckleberry also occurs in alpine heath communities and is codominant with species such as grouse whortleberry, and pine dropseed (Blepharoneuron tricholepis) or other forbs. In the lower alpine zone of the West, this shrub, along with grouse whortleberry, commonly dominates shrubfields which develop in areas of prolonged snow cover [38]. In the East and North, it occurs in black spruce (Picea mariana), balsam fir (A. balsamea)-white spruce (P. glauca), paper birch (Betula papyrifera)-balsam fir, oak-maple (Quercus-Acer spp.), and eastern hemlock (Tsuga canadensis) forests [20,53]. In the East, blueberries (Vaccinium spp.) commonly dominate the understory of many eastern hemlock, red maple (A. rubrum)-red oak (Q. rubra), eastern white pine (Pinus strobus), sugar maple (A. saccharum), and jack pine (Pinus banksiana)-red pine (P. resinosa) forests. Plant associates: In the West, dwarf huckleberry commonly grows in association with twinflower, queencup beadlily, Labrador tea, swordfern (Polystichum spp.), huckleberries (V. membranaceum, V. globulare), bluejoint reedgrass, elk sedge (Carex geyeri), and kinnikinnick (Arctostaphylos uva-ursi) [62,74,75]. Common eastern understory associates include maples (Acer spp.), blueberries (Vaccinium spp.), lichens (Cladonia spp.), bog Labrador tea, wintergreen (Gaultheria spp.), maianthemum (Maianthemum spp.), black crowberry (Empetrum nigrum), mountain-laurel (Kalmia polifolia), and viburnum (Viburnum spp.) [20,44,45,53]. Dwarf huckleberry has been listed as an indicator or dominant in the following classifications: 1. Forest types of the North Cascades National Park Service Complex [1] 2. Classification of the forest vegetation of Wyoming [2] 3. A preliminary classification on the natural vegetation of Colorado [4] 4. Natural vegetation of Oregon and Washington [21] 5. Ecoclass coding system for the Pacific Northwest plant associations [27] 6. Riparian site types, habitat types, and community types of southwestern Montana [28] 7. Classification and management of riparian sites in central and eastern Montana [29] 8. Plant association and management guide: Willamette National Forest [31] 9. Preliminary forest habitat types of the Uinta Mountains, UT [32] 10. Plant associations of south Chiloquin and Klamath Ranger Districts--Winema National Forest [36] 11. Habitat types on selected parts of the Gunnison and Uncompahgre National Forests [42] 12. Application of a forest habitat-type classification system in Michigan and Wisconsin [44] 13. Habitat type classification system for northern Wisconsin [45] 14. Flora and major plant communities of the Ruby-East Humbolt Mountains with special emphasis on Lamoille Canyon [48] 15. Coniferous forest habitat types of northern Utah [52] 16. Aspen community types of Utah [54] 17. Forest habitat types of Montana [62] 18. Climax vegetation of Montana based on soils and climate [67] 19. Forest habitat types of central Idaho [70] 20. Riparian classification for the Upper Salmon/Middle Fork Salmon River drainages, Idaho [76] 21. Plant associations in the central Oregon Pumice Zone [83] 22. Forested plant associations of the Okanogan National Forests [86] 23. Coniferous forest habitat types of central and southern Utah [87]

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