DISTRIBUTION AND OCCURRENCE
SPECIES: Vaccinium parvifolium | Red Huckleberry 



GENERAL DISTRIBUTION : 
Red huckleberry grows from southeastern Alaska southward to central
California [101].  It is primarily restricted to coastal regions and
grows west of the Cascades and Sierra Nevada [15,21,71].


ECOSYSTEMS : 
   FRES20  Douglas-fir
   FRES23  Fir - spruce
   FRES24  Hemlock - Sitka spruce
   FRES27  Redwood
   FRES28  Western hardwoods


STATES : 
     AK  CA  ID  OR  WA  BC


ADMINISTRATIVE UNITS : 
     GLBA  MORA  OLYM  NOCA  REDW


BLM PHYSIOGRAPHIC REGIONS : 
   1  Northern Pacific Border
   2  Cascade Mountains


KUCHLER PLANT ASSOCIATIONS : 
   K001  Spruce - cedar - hemlock forest
   K002  Cedar - hemlock - Douglas-fir forest
   K003  Silver fir - Douglas-fir forest
   K004  Fir - hemlock forest
   K006  Redwood forest
   K007  Red fir forest
   K012  Douglas-fir forest
   K029  California mixed evergreen forest


SAF COVER TYPES : 
   207  Red fir
   211  White fir
   215  Western white pine
   221  Red alder
   223  Sitka spruce
   224  Western hemlock
   225  Western hemlock - Sitka spruce
   226  Coastal true fir - hemlock
   227  Western redcedar - western hemlock
   228  Western redcedar
   229  Pacific Douglas-fir
   230  Douglas-fir - western hemlock
   231  Port Orford-cedar
   232  Redwood
   234  Douglas-fir - tanoak - Pacific madrone


SRM (RANGELAND) COVER TYPES : 
NO-ENTRY


HABITAT TYPES AND PLANT COMMUNITIES : 
Red huckleberry occurs in mixed evergreen forests dominated by Jeffrey
pine (Pinus jeffreyi), sugar pine (P.lambertiana), incense-cedar
(Libocedrus decurrens), canyon live oak (Quercus chrysolepis), tanoak
(Lithocarpus densiflorus), and Pacific madrone (Arbutus menziesia) [74].
It is a common understory component of coastal coniferous forests made
up of Sitka spruce (Picea sitchensis), western hemlock (Tsuga
heterophylla), western redcedar (Thuja plicata), Douglas-fir
(Pseudotsuga mensiezii), red fir (Abies magnifica), red alder (Alnus
rubra), and Port-Orford cedar (Chamaecyparis lawsoniana)
[4,12,39,44,50,74,81].  Red huckleberry is particularly abundant in wet
or dry, coastal western hemlock or western hemlock-Sitka spruce forests
where it often forms dense thickets [32,101].  However, it is relatively
rare in interior cedar-hemlock forests of British Columbia [34].  Red
huckleberry occurs on warmer sites in the Pacific silver fir zone [43]
and on relatively mesic sites in grand fir (Abies grandis) forests of
southwestern Oregon [108].  Common codominants in published
classification schemes include menziesia (Menziesia ferruginea), salal
(Gaultheria shallon), Alaska huckleberry (Vaccinium alaskaense),
broadleaf starflower (Trientalis latifolia), and thimbleberry (Rubus
parviflorus).

Plant associates:  In coastal forests, red huckleberry commonly grows in
association with salmonberry (Rubus spectablis), blue huckleberry
(Vaccinium membranaceum), thimbleberry (R. parviflorus), trailing
blackberry (R. ursinus), menziesia, fiveleaved bramble (R. pedatus),
salal, ovalleaf huckleberry (V. ovalifolium), dwarf Oregon-grape
(Berberis nervosa), bunchberry (Cornus canadensis), lady fern (Athyrium
filix-femina), and oak fern (Gymnocarpium spp.) [14,27,42,76].  Pinemat
manzanita (Arctostaphylos nevadensis), California coffeeberry (Rhamnus
california), baldhip rose (Rosa gymnocarpa), California-laurel
(Umbellularia californica), tanoak, boxleaf silktassel (Garrya
buxifolia), and huckleberry oak (Quercus vaccinifolia) are common
associates in mixed evergreen forests of southwestern Oregon and
northern California [102].

Published classifications listing red huckleberry as an indicator or
codominant in community types or plant associations are presented below.

Preliminary plant associations of the Siskiyou Mountain Province [5]
Forest associations and secondary succession in the southern Oregon
  Coast Range [6]
Plant communities and environmental relationships in a portion of the
  Tillamook Burn, northwestern Oregon [7]
Natural vegetation of Oregon and Washington [29]
Ecoclass coding system for the Pacific Northwest plant associations [35]
Plant association and management guide: Siuslaw National Forest [42]
Plant communities in the old-growth forests of north coastal Oregon [45]

Related categories for Species: Vaccinium parvifolium | Red Huckleberry