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DISTRIBUTION AND OCCURRENCE

SPECIES: Vaccinium vitis-idaea | Mountain Cranberry
GENERAL DISTRIBUTION : Mountain cranberry is a circumpolar, circumboreal species that occurs throughout parts of North America, Eurasia, and Japan [101,106]. The New World subspecies (ssp. minus) extends from northwestern Greenland across the Canadian Arctic southward to New England [114]. It grows westward to the Great Lakes and British Columbia and reaches islands in the Bering Sea [42,114]. In North America, mountain cranberry is restricted to areas north of the glacial boundary [106]. The subspecies vitis-idaea occurs throughout northern Europe from Scandinavia to northern Italy and the Caucasus, across northern Siberia and Japan southward into northern China and Korea [42]. ECOSYSTEMS : FRES10 White - red - jack pine FRES11 Spruce - fir FRES19 Aspen - birch FRES23 Fir - spruce FRES26 Lodgepole pine FRES44 Alpine STATES : AK CT ME MA MN NH VT WI AB BC LB MB NB NF NT NS ON PE PQ SK YT ADMINISTRATIVE UNITS : ACAD DENA GLBA ISRO LACL WRST YUCH BLM PHYSIOGRAPHIC REGIONS : NO-ENTRY KUCHLER PLANT ASSOCIATIONS : K015 Western spruce - fir forest K093 Great Lakes spruce - fir forest K094 Conifer bog K095 Great Lakes pine forest K096 Northeastern spruce - fir forest K106 Northern hardwoods K107 Northern hardwoods - fir forest K108 Northern hardwoods - spruce forest SAF COVER TYPES : 1 Jack pine 5 Balsam fir 12 Black spruce 13 Black spruce - tamarack 16 Aspen 17 Pin cherry 18 Paper birch 38 Tamarack 107 White spruce 201 White spruce 202 White spruce - paper birch 204 Black spruce 218 Lodgepole pine 251 White spruce - aspen 253 Black spruce - white spruce 254 Black spruce - paper birch SRM (RANGELAND) COVER TYPES : NO-ENTRY HABITAT TYPES AND PLANT COMMUNITIES : Mountain cranberry grows as an understory dominant or codominant in a variety of forest communities including many dominated by jack pine (Pinus banksiana) and lodgepole pine (P. contorta). It also occurs as a dominant or indicator in dwarf shrub and shrub tundra communities. Common codominants include dwarf birch (Betula nana), alpine bearberry (Arctostaphylos alpina), Labrador tea (Ledum spp.), feathermoss (Pleuroiozium spp.), willow (Salix spp.), sedges (Carex spp.), lichen (Cladina spp.), and crowberry (Empetrum nigrum). Mountain cranberry is listed as a dominant or indicator in the following plant association, ecosystem association, habitat type, and community type classifications: Forest community types of west-central Alberta in relation to selected environmental factors [17] Field guide to forest ecosystems of west-cewntral Alberta [18] Vegetation types in northwestern Alaska and comparisons with communities in other arctic regions [39] Plant associates: Cloudberry (Rubus chamaemorus), Canada beadruby (Maianthemum canadense), prickly rose (Rosa acicularis), paper birch (B. papyrifera), sedge, mountain-laurel (Kalmia angustifolia), bearberry (Arctostaphylos uva-ursi), crowberry, twinflower (Linnaea borealis), willow, bog blueberry (Vaccinium ugliginosum), fireweed (Epilobium angustifolium), bluejoint reedgrass (Calamagrostis canadensis), bog Labrador tea, and feathermoss commonly occur with mountain cranberry in white and black spruce and jack pine communities [7,22,26,38,48,120]. Willows, bog Labrador tea, prickly rose, crowberry, bog blueberry, sedges, cottongrass (Eriophorum vaginatum), and cloudberry are common associates in treeless sphagnum bogs, cottongrass muskeg, and dwarf shrub marsh communities [84,111,114,120].

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