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A.228 | EcoArt 2002
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Name: A.228
Reference: EcoArt 2002
Description: This alliance includes southern mixed hardwood forests with admixtures of ~Quercus alba$ and ~Fagus grandifolia$. Associations in this alliance include dry-mesic to mesic forests that typically occur on slopes and small stream bottoms in the Coastal Plain, and also in other adjacent physiographic provinces, including the southern part of Crowley's Ridge, Arkansas, and the Piedmont. This alliance is distributed primarily north of the distribution of ~Magnolia grandiflora$, but may also include stands within this range which lack a ~Magnolia grandiflora$ component. A diverse, often dense canopy is usually present, which may include ~Liriodendron tulipifera, Liquidambar styraciflua, Quercus michauxii, Quercus pagoda, Carya cordiformis, Fraxinus americana$, and ~Ulmus$ spp. In the southern part of the range, examples of this alliance may have ~Acer barbatum$ and ~Acer leucoderme$ in the subcanopy. A widely variable understory and shrub layer is usually present. Although the herbaceous layer is typically sparse, it may contain a number of species restricted, or nearly so, to rich mesic habitats. 
Accession Code: VB.CC.1741.A228
Plot-observations of this Community Concept: 0
      Party Perspective according to: NatureServe (organization)
Perspective from: 26-Nov-1997 to: 17-Mar-2005
     
  • status: accepted
  • Community's Parent: I.B.2.N.a
  • This Community's Level: Alliance
  • This Community's Children: [none]
Names:   Scientific: FAGUS GRANDIFOLIA - QUERCUS ALBA FOREST ALLIANCE
  Code: A.228
  Common: American Beech - White Oak Forest Alliance
(convergence) and Synonyms:
(undetermined) Fagus grandifolia - Quercus alba Forest Alliance