Wildlife, Animals, and Plants
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DISTRIBUTION AND OCCURRENCE
SPECIES: Robinia pseudoacacia | Black Locust
GENERAL DISTRIBUTION :
The original natural range of black locust is in two sections: 1) the
central Appalachian Mountains from central Pennsylvania and southern
Ohio south to northeastern Alabama, northern Georgia, and northwestern
South Carolina, and 2) the Ozark Plateau of southern Missouri, northern
Arkansas, northeastern Oklahoma, and the Oachita Mountains of central
Arkansas and southeastern Oklahoma. Outlying populations thought to be
part of the original natural range occur in southern Indiana, Illinois,
Kentucky, Alabama, and Georgia [45].
Black locust has been successfully planted in almost every state [24].
Naturalized populations occur throughout the United States, southern
Canada, Europe, and Asia [45].
ECOSYSTEMS :
FRES10 White - red - jack pine
FRES12 Longleaf - slash pine
FRES13 Loblolly - shortleaf pine
FRES14 Oak - pine
FRES15 Oak - hickory
FRES16 Oak - gum - cypress
FRES17 Elm - ash - cottonwood
FRES18 Maple - beech - birch
FRES21 Ponderosa pine
FRES27 Redwood
FRES28 Western hardwoods
FRES29 Sagebrush
FRES30 Desert shrub
FRES34 Chaparral - mountain shrub
FRES35 Pinyon - juniper
FRES36 Mountain grasslands
FRES38 Plains grasslands
FRES39 Prairie
FRES40 Desert grasslands
STATES :
AL AZ AR CA CO CT DE FL GA HI
ID IL IN IA KS KY LA ME MD MA
MI MN MS MO MT NE NV NH NJ NM
NY NC ND OH OK OR PA RI SC SD
TN TX UT VT VA WA WV WI WY AB
BC MB NB NF NT NS ON PE PQ SK
YT
ADMINISTRATIVE UNITS :
ACAD ALPO ANTI ARCH ASIS BISO
BUFF CACO CAHA CATO CHCH COLO
CUGA CUVA DEVA DEWA EFMO FIIS
FODO GATE GWCA GWMP GRSM INDU
JOFL LAME MACA MANA MORR NATR
NERI NOCA OBRI OZAR PRWI REDW
RICH ROCR SARA SHEN SHIL SLBE
TICA VAFO WHIS ZION
BLM PHYSIOGRAPHIC REGIONS :
1 Northern Pacific Border
2 Cascade Mountains
3 Southern Pacific Border
4 Sierra Mountains
5 Columbia Plateau
6 Upper Basin and Range
7 Lower Basin and Range
8 Northern Rocky Mountains
9 Middle Rocky Mountains
10 Wyoming Basin
11 Southern Rocky Mountains
12 Colorado Plateau
13 Rocky Mountain Piedmont
14 Great Plains
15 Black Hills Uplift
16 Upper Missouri Basin and Broken Lands
KUCHLER PLANT ASSOCIATIONS :
K011 Western ponderosa forest
K016 Eastern ponderosa forest
K017 Black Hills pine forest
K023 Juniper - pinyon woodland
K037 Mountain-mahogany - oak scrub
K038 Great Basin sagebrush
K040 Saltbush - greasewood
K051 Wheatgrass - bluegrass
K055 Sagebrush steppe
K057 Galleta - three-awn shrubsteppe
K065 Grama - buffalograss
K070 Sandsage - bluestem prairie
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
K111 Oak - hickory - pine forest
K112 Southern mixed forest
SAF COVER TYPES :
26 Sugar maple - basswood
27 Sugar maple
44 Chestnut oak
46 Eastern redcedar
50 Black locust
52 White oak - black oak - northern red oak
53 White oak
55 Northern red oak
57 Yellow-poplar
59 Yellow-poplar - white oak - northern red oak
60 Beech - sugar maple
62 Silver maple - American elm
108 Red maple
110 Black oak
237 Interior ponderosa pine
239 Pinyon - juniper
245 Pacific ponderosa pine
SRM (RANGELAND) COVER TYPES :
NO-ENTRY
HABITAT TYPES AND PLANT COMMUNITIES :
Black locust forms pure stands only on disturbed soils where there is no
competing overstory vegetation. On good sites, single trees or small
groups may persist and grow large enough to form part of the mature
canopy [45]. Black locust is found in the southeastern United States
largely within oak (Quercus spp.)-hickory (Carya spp.) forests. It also
occurs in naturalized populations in a wide range of types including
blue ash (Fraxinus quadrangulata) savannas in the inner bluegrass region
of Kentucky [13].
Common tree associates in oak-hickory forest include black cherry
(Prunus serotina), white ash (Fraxinus americana), sweet birch (Betula
lenta), cucumbertree (Magnolia acuminata), black walnut (Juglans nigra),
sourwood (Oxydendron arboreum), sassafras (Sassafras albidum), and
flowering dogwood (Cornus florida). Associates on dry slopes include
black gum (Nyssa sylvatica) and scarlet oak (Quercus coccinea).
Associates in prairie-woodland transition zones of the Midwest include
blackjack oak (Q. marilandica) and black hickory (C. texana)
[1,5,45,55,64,85].
Outside of its native range, black locust often naturalizes in riparian
habitats or floodplains [6,44,64].
Related categories for Species: Robinia pseudoacacia
| Black Locust
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