DISTRIBUTION AND OCCURRENCE
SPECIES: Prunus serotina | Black Cherry 



GENERAL DISTRIBUTION : 
Black cherry grows in eastern North America from western Minnesota south
to eastern Texas, and eastward to the Atlantic from central Florida to
Nova Scotia [34].  Outlying populations grow in central Texas; in the
mountains of western Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona; and south in Mexico
to Guatemala [34].  The varieties are distributed as follows [34]:

  typical black cherry (var. serotina) - from Nova Scotia west to
  central Minnesota, south to east Texas, and east to central Florida.

  Alabama black cherry (var. alabamensis) - from eastern Georgia west to
  northeastern Alabama, and south to northwestern Florida.  Also local
  in South Carolina and North Carolina.  

  escarpment cherry (var. exima) - found in the Edwards Plateau region
  of central Texas.

  southwestern black cherry (var. rufula) - in the mountains from
  western Texas to central Arizona, and south to northern and central
  Mexico.  


ECOSYSTEMS : 
   FRES10  White - red - jack pine
   FRES11  Spruce - fir
   FRES12  Longleaf - slash pine
   FRES13  Loblolly - shortleaf pine
   FRES14  Oak - pine
   FRES15  Oak - hickory
   FRES17  Elm - ash - cottonwood
   FRES18  Maple - beech - birch
   FRES19  Aspen - birch
   FRES32  Texas savanna


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


ADMINISTRATIVE UNITS : 
     ACAD  ALPO  ANTI  ASIS  BIBE  BISO
     BITH  BLRI  BUFF  CACO  CAHA  CALO
     CACA  CATC  CHCH  CHIR  COLO  COSW
     CUGA  CUIS  CUVA  DEWA  EFMO  FIIS
     FOCA  FODO  GATE  GWCA  GWMP  GRSM
     GUMO  HOBE  HOSP  INDU  JOFL  MACA
     MANA  MORR  NATR  NERI  OBRI  OZAR
     PRWI  RICH  ROCR  SARA  SHEN  SHIL
     SLBE  VAFO  VOYA  WICR


BLM PHYSIOGRAPHIC REGIONS : 
    7  Lower Basin and Range
   13  Rocky Mountain Piedmont
   14  Great Plains


KUCHLER PLANT ASSOCIATIONS : 
   K062  Mesquite - live oak savanna
   K081  Oak savanna
   K084  Cross Timbers
   K086  Juniper - oak savanna
   K087  Mesquite - oak savanna
   K089  Black Belt
   K097  Southeastern spruce - fir forest
   K100  Oak - hickory forest
   K101  Elm - ash forest
   K102  Beech - maple forest
   K103  Mixed mesophytic forest
   K104  Appalacian oak forest
   K106  Northern hardwoods
   K109  Transition between K104 and K106
   K110  Northeastern oak - pine forest
   K111  Oak - hickory - pine forest
   K112  Southern mixed forest
   K115  Sand pine scrub
   K116  Subtropical pine forest


SAF COVER TYPES : 
    14  Northern pin oak
    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
    25  Sugar maple - beech - yellow birch
    27  Sugar maple
    28  Black cherry - maple
    31  Red spruce - sugar maple - beech
    34  Red spruce - Fraser fir
    40  Post oak - blackjack oak
    42  Bur oak
    43  Bear oak
    44  Chestnut oak
    45  Pitch pine
    51  White pine - chestnut oak
    52  White oak - black oak - northern red oak
    55  Northern red oak
    57  Yellow-poplar
    59  Yellow-poplar - white oak - northern red oak
    60  Beech - sugar maple
    64  Sassafras - persimmon
    66  Ashe juniper - redberry (Pinchot) juniper
    68  Mesquite
    70  Longleaf pine
    82  Loblolly pine - hardwood
    83  Longleaf pine - slash pine
    85  Slash pine - hardwood
   108  Red maple
   109  Hawthorn
   110  Black oak


SRM (RANGELAND) COVER TYPES : 
NO-ENTRY


HABITAT TYPES AND PLANT COMMUNITIES : 
Black cherry occurs as scattered individuals in numerous forest types of
the East (see SAF cover types listed).  It is codominant in only one
cover type, the black cherry-maple type (SAF 28) found in the Allegheny
Plateau and Allegheny Mountain sections of New York, Pennsylvania,
Maryland, and West Virginia [18].  In this type, black cherry is a
primary component along with red maple (Acer rubrum), sugar maple (A.
saccharum), and white ash (Fraxinus americana).  Other common associates
include American beech (Fagus grandifolia), eastern hemlock (Tsuga
canadensis), sweet birch (Betula lenta), yellow birch (B.
alleghaniensis), yellow-poplar (Liriodendron tulipifera), cucumbertree
(Magnolia acuminata), oak (Quercus spp.), and hickory (Carya spp.)
[1,5,29,41].

Related categories for Species: Prunus serotina | Black Cherry