DISTRIBUTION AND OCCURRENCE
SPECIES: Acer saccharum | Sugar Maple 



GENERAL DISTRIBUTION : 
Sugar maple grows from Nova Scotia and New Brunswick westward to Ontario
and Manitoba, southward through Minnesota, and eastern Kansas into
northeastern Texas [46].  It extends eastward to Georgia and northward
through the Appalachian Mountains into New England [46,68].  Local
populations occur in northwestern South Carolina, northern Georgia, and
northeastern South Dakota [46].  Disjunct populations are known from the
Wichita Mountains of southwestern Oklahoma [16].


ECOSYSTEMS : 
   FRES10  White - red - jack pine
   FRES11  Spruce - fir
   FRES13  Loblolly - shortleaf pine
   FRES15  Oak - hickory
   FRES16  Oak - gum - cypress
   FRES17  Elm - ash - cottonwood
   FRES18  Maple - beech - birch
   FRES19  Aspen - birch


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


ADMINISTRATIVE UNITS : 
     ACAD  ALPO  ANTI  APIS  BISO  BITH
     BLRI  BUFF  CATO  CHCH  COSW  CUGA
     CUVA  DEWA  EFMO  FODO  GRSM  INDU
     ISRO  JOFL  LAMR  MACA  MANA  MORR
     NATR  NERI  OBRI  OZAR  PIRO  ROCR
     SARA  SHEN  SHIL  SLBE  VAFO  WICR


BLM PHYSIOGRAPHIC REGIONS : 
NO-ENTRY


KUCHLER PLANT ASSOCIATIONS : 
   K093  Great Lakes spruce - fir forest
   K095  Great Lakes pine forest
   K096  Northeastern spruce - fir forest
   K097  Southeastern spruce - fir forest
   K098  Northern floodplain forest
   K099  Maple - basswood forest
   K100  Oak - hickory forest
   K102  Beech - maple forest
   K103  Mixed mesophytic forest
   K104  Appalachian oak forest
   K106  Northern hardwoods
   K107  Northern hardwoods - fir forest
   K108  Northern hardwoods - spruce forest
   K109  Transition between K104 and K106
   K110  Northeastern oak - pine forest
   K111  Oak - hickory - pine forest
   K112  Southern mixed forest


SAF COVER TYPES : 
     1  Jack pine
     5  Balsam fir
    16  Aspen
    17  Pin cherry
    19  Gray birch - red maple
    20  White pine - northern red oak - red maple
    21  Eastern white pine
    22  White pine - hemlock
    23  Eastern hemlock
    24  Hemlock - yellow birch
    25  Sugar maple - beech - yellow birch
    26  Sugar maple - basswood
    27  Basswood
    28  Black cherry - maple
    30  Red spruce - yellow birch
    31  Red spruce - sugar maple - beech
    32  Red spruce
    33  Red spruce - balsam fir
    34  Red spruce - Fraser fir
    35  Paper birch - red spruce - balsam fir
    40  Post oak - blackjack oak
    44  Chestnut oak
    51  White pine - chestnut oak
    52  White oak - black oak - northern red oak
    53  White oak
    55  Northern red oak
    57  Yellow-poplar
    58  Yellow-poplar - eastern hemlock
    59  Yellow-poplar - white oak - northern red oak
    60  Beech - sugar maple
    61  River birch - sycamore
    64  Sassafras - persimmon
   107  White spruce
   108  Red maple
   110  Black oak


SRM (RANGELAND) COVER TYPES : 
NO-ENTRY


HABITAT TYPES AND PLANT COMMUNITIES : 
Sugar maple grows in a wide variety of plant communities throughout
eastern North America.  It is a dominant or codominant in many northern
hardwood and mixed mesophytic communities.  Common codominants include
beech (Fagus grandifolia), birch (Betula spp.), and American basswood
(Tilia americana).  Sugar maple has been listed as a dominant or
indicator in the following community type (cts), ecosystem associations
(eas), dominance types (dts), and plant association (pas)
classifications:

Area                    Classification                Authority

s IL                    forest cts                    Fralish 1976
e IA                    forest dts                    Cahayla-Wynne & Glenn-
                                                      Lewin 1978
MI                      forest eas                    Pregitzer & Ramm 1984
MN                      forest cts                    Daubenmire 1936
s NY                    forest pas                    Wilm 1936   

Related categories for Species: Acer saccharum | Sugar Maple