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DISTRIBUTION AND OCCURRENCE

SPECIES: Vaccinium oxycoccos | Bog Cranberry
GENERAL DISTRIBUTION : Bog cranberry is distributed throughout Alaska and across Canada to Labrador, Greenland, and Newfoundland. It also occurs south through New England, the northern portions of the Great Lakes States, and western Washington and Oregon. Bog cranberry is also found in Europe and Asia [11,20,44,50]. ECOSYSTEMS : FRES10 White - red - jack pine FRES11 Spruce - fir FRES23 Fir - spruce STATES : AK CT ID IL IN ME MD MA MI MN NH NJ NY NC OH OR PA RI VT VA WA WV WI AB BC LB MB NB NF NT NS ON PE PQ SK YT ADMINISTRATIVE UNITS : ACAD APIS CACO DEWA DENA FIIS GLBA INDU ISRO LACL OLYM PIRO SLBE VOYA WRST YUCH BLM PHYSIOGRAPHIC REGIONS : 1 Northern Pacific Border 2 Cascade Mountains KUCHLER PLANT ASSOCIATIONS : K004 Fir - hemlock forest K093 Great Lakes spruce - fir forest K094 Conifer bog K095 Great Lakes pine forest K096 Northeastern spruce - fir forest SAF COVER TYPES : 1 Jack pine 5 Balsam fir 12 Black spruce 13 Black spruce - tamarack 38 Tamarack 107 White spruce 201 White spruce 204 Black spruce 253 Black spruce - white spruce SRM (RANGELAND) COVER TYPES : NO-ENTRY HABITAT TYPES AND PLANT COMMUNITIES : Bog cranberry is classified as an indicator of moist to very wet, nitrogen-poor soils and high surface groundwater [25]. It is also an indicator of coniferous swamps [37]. Bog cranberry is not listed as a dominant or codominant understory species in published classification schemes.

Related categories for Species: Vaccinium oxycoccos | Bog Cranberry

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