Name:
Acer saccharinum Temporarily Flooded Forest Alliance
Reference:
Midwestern Ecology Working Group...
Description:
This alliance contains floodplain forests of major rivers in the eastern United States where Acer saccharinum is generally dominant. Other tree associates include Platanus occidentalis, Celtis laevigata, Carya illinoinensis, Ulmus americana, Acer negundo, Fraxinus pennsylvanica, Ulmus rubra, Salix nigra, Betula nigra, and Populus deltoides. Common shrub species include Lindera benzoin, Ilex decidua, Asimina triloba, Cephalanthus occidentalis, Alnus serrulata, and Forestiera acuminata (in the Southeast). Characteristic herbs include nettles and ferns, such as Boehmeria cylindrica, Urtica dioica, Laportea canadensis, Onoclea sensibilis, and Matteuccia struthiopteris, and in the South, Leersia lenticularis, Pilea pumila, Carex grayi, Impatiens capensis, and others. Forests in this alliance generally occur on well-drained, sandy soils, on infrequently flooded bottomlands, on levees, and on deep silts on stabilized sites along larger rivers. They also may occur along smaller rivers but are most common along bigger rivers where there is more scour and more silt deposition. This alliance is common in the Interior Low Plateau and in the Upper West Gulf Coastal Plain particularly along the White and Arkansas rivers north to the Ozarks, and then in the central Midwest to Wisconsin and Minnesota, and the East Coast to Maine. It is sparingly distributed in the Piedmont and is known from the South Atlantic Coastal Plain in South Carolina.
Accession Code:
VB.CC.18471.ACERSACCHARINUM
Plot-observations of this Community Concept:
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