DISTRIBUTION AND OCCURRENCE
SPECIES: Platanus occidentalis | Sycamore 



GENERAL DISTRIBUTION : 
The range of sycamore extends from southwestern Maine west to extreme
southern Ontario, southern Wisconsin, Iowa, and extreme eastern
Nebraska; south to south-central Texas; and east to northwestern Florida
and southeastern Georgia.  It also occurs in the mountains of
northeastern Mexico [30,35,50].  Sycamore has become naturalized to some
extent from plantations outside of its native range, chiefly in southern
Maine, southern Michigan, southern Minnesota, and eastern and southern
Iowa [35].


ECOSYSTEMS : 
   FRES15  Oak - hickory
   FRES16  Oak - gum - cypress
   FRES17  Elm - ash - cottonwood
   FRES18  Maple - beech - birch


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


ADMINISTRATIVE UNITS : 
     ALPO  AMIS  ANTI  ASIS  BISO  BITH
     BLRI  BUFF  CAMO  CHCH  COLO  COSW
     CUGA  CUIS  CUVA  DEWA  FIIS  FOCA
     FODO  GATE  GWCA  GWMP  GRSM  HOBE
     HOSP  INDU  MACA  MANA  MORR  NATR
     NERI  OBRI  OZAR  PRWI  RICH  ROCR
     SARA  SHEN  SHIL  VAFO  WICR


BLM PHYSIOGRAPHIC REGIONS : 
   14  Great Plains


KUCHLER PLANT ASSOCIATIONS : 
   K098  Northern floodplain forest
   K099  Maple - basswood forest
   K100  Oak - hickory forest
   K101  Elm - ash forest
   K103  Mixed mesophytic forest
   K106  Northern hardwoods
   K112  Southern mixed forest
   K113  Southern floodplain forest


SAF COVER TYPES : 
    23  Eastern hemlock
    24  Hemlock - yellow birch
    25  Sugar maple - beech - yellow birch
    26  Sugar maple - basswood
    27  Sugar maple
    37  Northern white-cedar
    39  Black ash - American elm - red maple
    60  Beech - sugar maple
    61  River birch - sycamore
    62  Silver maple - American elm
    63  Cottonwood
    65  Pin oak - sweetgum
    87  Sweetgum - yellow-poplar
    91  Swamp chestnut oak - cherrybark oak
    92  Sweetgum - willow oak
    93  Sugarberry - American elm - green ash
    94  Sycamore - sweetgum - American elm
    95  Black willow
    96  Overcup oak - water hickory
    97  Atlantic white-cedar


SRM (RANGELAND) COVER TYPES : 
NO-ENTRY


HABITAT TYPES AND PLANT COMMUNITIES : 
Sycamore is found in quantity only in bottomland forests, particularly
of elm-ash-cottonwood (Ulmus spp.-Fraxinus spp.-Populus deltoides) types
as defined by Shifley and others [66], and cottonwood-willow (Salix
spp.) types.  It usually occurs singly or in small groups [78].
Sycamore is found occasionally along intermittent streams within upland
stands of oak-hickory (Quercus spp.-Carya spp.) communities.  It is a
major pioneer species in the floodplains of large rivers [74].  In the
Southeast pure stands of 40 to 100 acres (16-40 ha) are sometimes
formed; it rarely forms extensive pure stands in the northern parts of
its range [78].  In the northern states sycamore is rarely the dominant
species; it increases (replacing silver maple [Acer saccharinum]) with
decreasing latitude [27].

Sycamore is listed as a dominant or indicator species in the following
publications:

1) The natural forests of Maryland: an explanation of the vegetation map
     of Maryland [14]
2) The natural communities of South Carolina [58]
3) Land Classification in the Blue Ridge province: state-of-the-science
     report [55]
4) Forest management of floodplain sites in the northeastern United
     States [56]
5) Management of bottomland hardwoods [61]
6) Ecological communities of New York State [63]
7) Classification and evaluation of forest sites on the northern Cumberland
     Plateau [68]
8) Classification and evaluation of forest sites on the Natchez Trace State
     Forest, State Resort Park, and Wildlife Management Area in west
     Tennessee [69]

Related categories for Species: Platanus occidentalis | Sycamore