DISTRIBUTION AND OCCURRENCE
SPECIES: Vaccinium pallidum | Hillside Blueberry 



GENERAL DISTRIBUTION : 
Hillside blueberry grows from Minnesota and southern Ontario to Maine,
and southward to the uplands of Georgia, Alabama, and Arkansas [58,61].
It occurs abundantly in the Allegheny Plateau but is primarily local to
the west in Illinois, Wisconsin, Kansas, and Oklahoma [8,61].  Hillside
blueberry grows throughout the Ozarks, southern Appalachians, and
Coastal Plain but is restricted to isolated populations to the north in
much of New England [55,58].


ECOSYSTEMS : 
   FRES10  White - red - jack pine
   FRES12  Longleaf - slash pine
   FRES13  Loblolly - shortleaf pine
   FRES14  Oak - pine
   FRES15  Oak - hickory


STATES : 
     AL  AR  CT  DE  GA  IL  IN  IA  KS  KY
     MD  MA  MI  MN  ME  MO  NH  NJ  NY  NC
     OH  OK  PA  RI  SC  TN  VT  VA  WV  WI
     ON


ADMINISTRATIVE UNITS : 
     ALPO  BISO  BUFF  CACO  CATO  COLO
     CUGA  CUVA  DEWA  FIIS  GWMP  GRSM
     INDU  MACA  MORR  NERI  OBRI  OZAR
     PIRO  RICH  ROCR  SHEN


BLM PHYSIOGRAPHIC REGIONS : 
NO-ENTRY


KUCHLER PLANT ASSOCIATIONS : 
   K095  Great Lakes pine forest
   K100  Oak - hickory forest
   K104  Appalachian oak forest
   K110  Northeastern oak - pine forest
   K111  Oak - hickory - pine forest
   K112  Southern mixed forest


SAF COVER TYPES : 
     1  Jack pine
    40  Post oak - blackjack oak
    44  Chestnut oak
    45  Pitch pine
    52  White oak - black oak - northern red oak
    53  White oak
    55  Northern red oak
    70  Longleaf pine
    71  Longleaf pine - scrub oak
    76  Shortleaf pine - oak
    81  Loblolly pine
    82  Loblolly pine - hardwood
   110  Black oak


SRM (RANGELAND) COVER TYPES : 
NO-ENTRY


HABITAT TYPES AND PLANT COMMUNITIES : 
Hillside blueberry is a prominent understory species in oak (Quercus
spp.) woodlands, red maple (Acer rubrum) swamps, oak-chestnut (Castanea
dentata spp.) woodlands, pine (Pinus spp.)-oak communities, ecotonal
white pine (P. strobus) thickets, pitch pine (P. rigida) barrens, and
open pine savannas [9,23,61,64].  Numerous evergreen and deciduous
overstory dominants grow in association with hillside blueberry.  Common
associates include northern red oak (Q. rubra), black oak (Q. velutina),
white oak (Q. alba), post oak (Q. stellata), chestnut oak (Q. prinus),
blackjack oak (Q. marilandica), Virginia pine (P. virginia), shortleaf
pine (P. echinata), pitch pine (P. rigida), loblolly pine (P. taeda),
longleaf pine (P. palustris), jack pine (P. banksiana), eastern hemlock
(Tsuga canadensis), red maple, and black cherry (Prunus serotina)
[23,28,30,37,64].

Understory associates:  Hillside blueberry grows as a principal species
in higher elevation spirea (Spirea corymbosa) meadows of Virginia [26].
In the southern Appalachians, mountain-laurel (Kalmia latifolia),
rhododendron (Rhododendron maximum), yellow birch (Betula
alleghaniensis), black huckleberry (Gaylussacia bacatta), wintergreen
(Gaultheria procumbens), and little bluestem (Schizachryium scoparium)
typically occur with hillside blueberry [64].  Common associates in oak,
oak-pine communities, and the Pine Barrens of New Jersey include black
huckleberry, melampyrum (Melampyrum lineare), sweet-fern (Comptonia
peregrina), cat greenbriar (Smilax glauca), mountain-laurel, dangleberry
(Gaylussacia frondosa), yellow sedge (Carex pensylvanica), and bracken
fern (Pteridium aquilinum) [12,18,34].  Sweet-fern, black huckleberry,
dangleberry, and low sweet blueberry often grow with hillside blueberry
in oak woodlands [31].  In the upper Midwest, sedges (Carex spp.),
Dichanthelium depauperatum, and dewberry (Rubus hispidus) are common
understory associates [2].

Hillside blueberry grows as a "diagnostic understory species" in certain
old-growth post oak-black oak communities of the Piedmont [30].  It is
listed as an indicator or codominant in the following community type
classification system:

Old-growth forests within the Piedmont of South Carolina [30]

Related categories for Species: Vaccinium pallidum | Hillside Blueberry