Acadian-Appalachian Red Spruce - Fir - Hardwood Forest
| Type: | Group | | Parent classification: | Acadian-Northern Appalachian Forest | | Scientific Name: | Picea rubens - Abies balsamea - Betula papyrifera Forest Group | | Location: | United States (New York, Maine, Massachusetts, Vermont, New Hampshire); Canada (New Brunswick, Quebec, Nova Scotia) | | Description: | The vegetation is composed of red spruce-fir-hardwood forests and woodlands of the Acadian and northern Appalachian regions of northeastern North America where Picea rubens is generally dominant, and Abies balsamea, Betula papyrifera, Betula alleghaniensis, or Populus spp. are codominants, with characteristic shrubs including Vaccinium angustifolium and/or Vaccinium myrtilloides, Viburnum lantanoides, and Viburnum nudum var. cassinoides. | | Website: | View website |
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