DISTRIBUTION AND OCCURRENCE
SPECIES: Tilia americana | Basswood 



GENERAL DISTRIBUTION : 
The native range of basswood extends from southwestern New Brunswick and
Maine west to southern Quebec, southern and western Ontario, Michigan,
Minnesota, and southeastern Manitoba; south to eastern North
Dakota, northern and eastern Nebraska, eastern Kansas, and northeastern
Oklahoma; east to northern Arkansas, Tennessee, western North Carolina,
and New Jersey [47].



ECOSYSTEMS : 
   FRES10  White - red - jack pine
   FRES15  Oak - hickory
   FRES17  Elm - ash - cottonwood
   FRES18  Maple - beech - birch
   FRES19  Aspen - birch


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


ADMINISTRATIVE UNITS : 
     ALPO  ANTI  APIS  BISO  BLRI  BUFF
     CAMO  CUGA  CUVA  DEWA  EFMO  GATE
     GWMP  GRSM  INDU  JOFL  MACA  MORR
     NATR  NERI  OBRI  OZAR  PIRO  ROCR
     SARA  SHEN  SLBE  VAFO  VOYA


BLM PHYSIOGRAPHIC REGIONS : 
NO-ENTRY


KUCHLER PLANT ASSOCIATIONS : 
   K081  Oak savanna
   K095  Great Lakes pine forest
   K099  Maple - basswood forest
   K100  Oak - hickory forest
   K101  Elm - ash 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


SAF COVER TYPES : 
     1  Jack pine
    16  Aspen
    20  White pine - northern red oak - red maple
    21  Eastern white pine
    23  Eastern hemlock
    24  Hemlock - yellow birch
    25  Sugar maple - beech - yellow birch
    26  Sugar maple - basswood
    27  Sugar maple
    28  Black cherry - maple
    39  Black ash - American elm - red maple
    42  Bur oak
    52  White oak - black oak - northern red oak
    55  Northern red oak
    58  Yellow-poplar - eastern hemlock
    59  Yellow-poplar - white oak - northern red oak


SRM (RANGELAND) COVER TYPES : 
NO-ENTRY


HABITAT TYPES AND PLANT COMMUNITIES : 
Basswood generally occurs in mixed stands and rarely forms pure stands
[16].  It is codominant in the sugar maple (Acer saccharum)-basswood
cover type, and is a common component of many other mesophytic forests [24].

Associates in the sugar maple-basswood type include white ash (Fraxinus
americana), northern red oak (Quercus rubra), eastern hophornbeam
(Ostrya americana), red maple (A. rubrum), and American elm (Ulmus
americana) [16,24].  Typical sugar maple-basswood communities in
Wisconsin and Minnesota include 21 percent northern red oak, 35 percent
basswood, 17 percent sugar maple, and 17 percent other species [68].  To
the east, eastern hemlock (Tsuga canadensis) may be present, and
communities on mesic sites would be more like the following: 52 percent
sugar maple, 27 percent basswood, 14 percent yellow birch (Betula
alleghaniensis), 4 percent eastern hemlock, and 3 percent other species [68].

Publications in which basswood is listed as a dominant, codominant,
or indicator species include:

The vegetation of Wisconsin [17]
The principal plant associations of the Saint Lawrence Valley [18]
Deciduous forest [31]
A forest classification for the Maritime Provinces [49]
A classification of the deciduous forest of eastern North America [53].

Related categories for Species: Tilia americana | Basswood