DISTRIBUTION AND OCCURRENCE
SPECIES: Viburnum edule | Highbush Cranberry 



GENERAL DISTRIBUTION : 
Highbush cranberry is distributed throughout Alaska and across Canada to
Newfoundland.  It occurs south through the New England and Great Lakes
States, and the Pacific Northwest [1,18,45,49,58].  Populations are also
found in Idaho, Montana, North and South Dakota, Wyoming, and Colorado
[10,11,26,43,53].


ECOSYSTEMS : 
   FRES10  White - red - jack pine
   FRES11  Spruce - fir
   FRES19  Aspen - birch
   FRES23  Fir - spruce
   FRES24  Hemlock - Sitka spruce
   FRES26  Lodgepole pine
   FRES28  Western hardwoods


STATES : 
     AK  CO  CT  ID  IA  ME  MD  MA  MI  MN
     MT  NH  NY  ND  OR  PA  RI  SD  VT  WA
     WI  WY  AB  BC  LB  MB  NB  NF  NT  NS
     ON  PE  PQ  SK  YT


ADMINISTRATIVE UNITS : 
     DENA  GLBA  GLAC  ISRO  LACL  MORA
     NOCA  OLYM  WRST  YUCH


BLM PHYSIOGRAPHIC REGIONS : 
    1  Northern Pacific Border
    2  Cascade Mountains
    8  Northern Rocky Mountains
    9  Middle Rocky Mountains
   11  Southern Rocky Mountains
   15  Black Hills Uplift


KUCHLER PLANT ASSOCIATIONS : 
   K001  Spruce - cedar - hemlock forest
   K004  Fir - hemlock forest
   K008  Lodgepole pine - subalpine forest
   K015  Western spruce - fir forest
   K025  Alder - ash forest
   K093  Great Lakes spruce - fir forest
   K094  Conifer bog
   K095  Great Lakes pine forest
   K096  Northeastern spruce - fir forest
   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
   203  Balsam poplar
   204  Black spruce
   205  Mountain hemlock
   206  Engelmann spruce - subalpine fir
   217  Aspen
   218  Lodgepole pine
   222  Black cottonwood - willow
   224  Western hemlock
   227  Western redcedar - western hemlock
   228  Western redcedar
   251  White spruce - aspen
   252  Paper birch
   253  Black spruce - white spruce
   254  Black spruce - paper birch


SRM (RANGELAND) COVER TYPES : 
NO-ENTRY


HABITAT TYPES AND PLANT COMMUNITIES : 
Highbush cranberry may occur as a dominant or codominant understory
species in open or closed coniferous forests, primarily in white spruce
(Picea glauca) [12,19,50,57], but also in lodgepole pine (Pinus
contorta) [7] or western redcedar (Thuja plicata) habitats [25].  It may
also occur as an understory dominant in open or closed deciduous forests
with quaking aspen (Populus tremuloides), paper birch (Betula
papyrifera), or balsam poplar (P. balsamifera) [7,19,57].

Common understory associates include:  willows (Salix spp.), alders
(Alnus spp.), raspberries (Rubus spp.), currants (Ribes spp.), prickly
rose (Rosa acicularis), lignonberry (Vaccinium vitis-idaea), rusty
menziesia (Menziesia ferruginea), hazelnut (Corylus cornuta), bog
Labrador tea (Ledum groenlandicum), one sided wintergreen (Pyrola
secunda), dogwoods (Cornus canadensis and C. stolonifera), buffaloberry
(Shepherdia canadensis), devilsclub (Oplopanax horridus), queencup
beadlily (Clintonia uniflora), oak fern (Gymnocarpium dryopteris),
twinflower (Linnea borealis), twinberry honeysuckle (Lonicera
involucrata), fireweed (Epilobium angustifolium), bearberry
(Arctostaphylos uva-ursi), horsetails (Equisetum pratense, E. arvense,
and E. sylvanicum), bluejoint reedgrass (Calamagrostis canadensis), and
various feathermosses (Hylocomium and Pleurozium), sedges (Carex spp.),
lichens (Cladonia and Cladina spp.) and sphagnum mosses.

Published classifications listing highbush cranberry as a dominant
understory species in plant associations (pas), community types (cts),
or vegetation types (vts) are as follows:

AREA                       CLASSIFICATION       AUTHORITY

wc AB                      forest cts           Corns 1983
int AK                     gen. veg. cts        Dyrness and others 1989
int AK                     postfire forest cts  Foote 1983
YT                         vts                  Stanek 1980
BC: Salmon River Valley    vts                  Harcombe and others 1983
AK                         gen. veg. pas        Viereck & Dyrness 1980
        

Related categories for Species: Viburnum edule | Highbush Cranberry