DISTRIBUTION AND OCCURRENCE
SPECIES: Nyssa sylvatica | Black Tupelo 



GENERAL DISTRIBUTION : 
Black tupelo grows from southwestern Maine west to New York, extreme
southern Ontario, central Michigan, Illinois, central Missouri, and
south to central Florida.  It is local in central and southern Mexico.
Swamp tupelo is limited to Coastal Plain swamps and estuaries from
Maryland and southeastern Virginia south to southern Florida.  It grows
on the east side of the Mississippi River to western and southern
Tennessee [19,26,44].


ECOSYSTEMS : 
   FRES10  White - red - jack pine
   FRES11  Spruce - fir
   FRES12  Longleaf - slash pine
   FRES13  Loblolly - shortleaf pine
   FRES14  Oak - pine
   FRES15  Oak - hickory
   FRES16  Oak - gum - cypress


STATES : 
     AL  AR  CT  DE  FL  GA  IL  IN  KY  LA
     ME  MD  MA  MI  MS  MO  NH  NJ  NY  NC
     OH  OK  PA  RI  SC  TN  TX  VT  VA  WV
     ON  MEXICO


ADMINISTRATIVE UNITS : 
     ALPO  ANTI  ASIS  BISO  BITH  BLRI
     BUFF  CACO  CAHA  CALO  CATO  CHCH
     COLO  COSW  CUGA  CUVA  DEWA  FIIS
     FOCA  FODO  GATE  GWMP  GRSM  HOBE
     HOSP  INDU  MACA  MANA  MORR  NATR
     NERI  OBRI  OZAR  PRWI  RICH  ROCR
     SHEN  SHIL  VAFO


BLM PHYSIOGRAPHIC REGIONS : 
NO-ENTRY


KUCHLER PLANT ASSOCIATIONS : 
   K089  Black Belt
   K090  Live oak - sea oats
   K091  Cypress savanna
   K095  Great Lakes pine forest
   K097  Southeastern spruce - fir forest
   K100  Oak - hickory forest
   K101  Elm - ash forest
   K102  Beech - maple forest
   K103  Mixed mesophytic forest
   K104  Appalachian oak forest
   K111  Oak - hickory - pine forest
   K112  Southern mixed forest
   K113  Southern floodplain forest
   K114  Pocosin
   K115  Sand pine scrub


SAF COVER TYPES : 
    39  Black ash - American elm - red maple
    40  Post oak - blackjack oak
    43  Bear oak
    44  Chestnut oak
    45  Pitch pine
    46  Eastern redcedar
    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
    65  Pin oak - sweetgum
    70  Longleaf pine
    75  Shortleaf pine
    76  Shortleaf pine - oak
    78  Virginia pine - oak
    79  Virginia pine
    80  Loblolly pine - shortleaf pine
    81  Loblolly pine
    82  Loblolly pine - hardwood
    83  Longleaf pine - slash pine
    85  Slash pine - hardwood 
    87  Sweetgum - yellow poplar
    91  Swamp chestnut oak - cherrybark oak
    93  Sugarberry - American elm - green ash
    97  Atlantic white-cedar
   100  Pond cypress
   104  Sweetbay - swamp tupelo - redbay
   110  Black oak


SRM (RANGELAND) COVER TYPES : 
NO-ENTRY


HABITAT TYPES AND PLANT COMMUNITIES : 
Kologiski has included black tupelo as an indicator or dominant in the
following community type classification [33]:

Location              Classification               Authority

se NC                 general veg. cts             Kologiski 1977

Related categories for Species: Nyssa sylvatica | Black Tupelo