DISTRIBUTION AND OCCURRENCE
SPECIES: Vaccinium corymbosum | Highbush Blueberry 



GENERAL DISTRIBUTION : 
Highbush blueberry grows from northeastern Illinois and northern Indiana
northeastward to southwestern Nova Scotia, south to Florida, and west to
northeastern Texas and adjacent Oklahoma [24].  The species is absent or
rare in Missouri, central Ohio, western Kentucky, western Tennessee,
West Virginia, and central Pennsylvania [24].  It has been introduced
outside of its natural range for commercial berry production in
Wisconsin, Washington, British Columbia, and New Brunswick [26].


ECOSYSTEMS : 
   FRES10  White - red - jack pine
   FRES11  Spruce - fir
   FRES12  Longleaf - slash pine
   FRES13  Loblolly - shortleaf pine
   FRES14  Oak - pine
   FRES15  Oak - hickory
   FRES16  Oak - gum - cypress
   FRES18  Maple - beech - birch
   FRES19  Aspen - birch


STATES : 
     AL  AR  CT  DE  FL  GA  IL  IN  KY  LA
     ME  MD  MA  MI  MS  NH  NJ  NY  NC  OH
     PA  RI  SC  TN  TX  VT  VA  WA  WV  WI
     BC  NS  ON  PQ


ADMINISTRATIVE UNITS : 
     BLRI  CUGA  GWMP  GRSM  OBRI


BLM PHYSIOGRAPHIC REGIONS : 
NO-ENTRY


KUCHLER PLANT ASSOCIATIONS : 
   K091  Cypress savanna
   K094  Conifer bog
   K096  Northeastern spruce - fir forest
   K097  Southeastern spruce - fir forest
   K100  Oak - hickory forest
   K104  Appalachian oak forest
   K106  Northern hardwoods
   K107  Northern hardwoods - fir forest
   K108  Northern hardwoods - spruce forest
   K109  Transition between K104 and K106
   K112  Southern mixed forest
   K113  Southern floodplain forest
   K116  Subtropical pine forest


SAF COVER TYPES : 
    13  Black spruce - tamarack
    16  Aspen
    18  Paper birch
    19  Gray birch - red maple
    30  Red spruce - yellow birch
    31  Red spruce - sugar maple - beech
    32  Red spruce
    33  Red spruce - balsam fir
    34  Red spruce - Fraser fir
    35  Paper birch - red spruce - balsam fir
    37  Northern white-cedar
    38  Tamarack
    44  Chestnut oak
    45  Pitch pine
    52  White oak - black oak - northern red oak
    53  White oak
    55  Northern red oak
    59  Yellow-poplar - white oak - northern red oak
    65  Pin oak - sweetgum
    70  Longleaf pine
    81  Loblolly pine
    84  Slash pine
    97  Atlantic white-cedar
   100  Pondcypress
   101  Baldcypress
   108  Red maple
   111  South Florida slash pine


SRM (RANGELAND) COVER TYPES : 
NO-ENTRY


HABITAT TYPES AND PLANT COMMUNITIES : 
Highbush blueberry occupies numerous habitats but seldom occurs as
community dominant.  Two habitats where it occurs as a dominant or
codominant are open swamps or bogs and high-elevation balds.

In the Appalachian Oak and Northern Hardwood Regions
highbush-blueberry-dominated thickets are common on peatlands with
strong water-level fluctuations and weakly minerotrophic water [3,12].
Thickets may also occur on a quaking mat.  Codominants include swamp
azalea (Rhododendron viscosum), downy blueberry (V. attrococcum),
mountain holly (Nemopanthus mucronata), black huckleberry (Gaylussacia
baccata), cinnamon fern (Osmunda cinnamomea), casandra (Chamaedaphne
calyculata), black chokeberry (Aronia melanocarpa), and sheep laurel
(Kalmia angustifolia) [3,4,11,12].

Highbush blueberry codominates high elevation "heath balds" with
rhododendrons (Rhododendron spp.) [28].  

Highbush-blueberry-dominated communities have been described in the
following publications:

Vegetation of the Great Smoky Mountains [28]
Community classification of the vascular vegetation of a New Hampshire
  peatland [4]
The vegetation of the low-shrub bogs of northern New Jersey and adjacent
  New York: ecosystems at their southern limit [12]
The ecology of peat bogs of the glaciated northeastern United States: a
  community profile [3]
Demography and age structure of a central New York shrub-carr 94 years
  after fire [12]

Related categories for Species: Vaccinium corymbosum | Highbush Blueberry