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Pinus echinata - Quercus (alba, falcata, stellata, velutina) Forest Alliance | Southeastern Ecology Working Gro...
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Name: Pinus echinata - Quercus (alba, falcata, stellata, velutina) Forest Alliance
Reference: Southeastern Ecology Working Gro...
Description: This alliance occurs in the southeastern United States from the Inner Coastal Plain and Piedmont, ranging north and west through the Cumberland Plateau, Ridge and Valley, and low-elevation Blue Ridge, and from eastern Texas and Louisiana, through the Ouachita Mountains and Ozarks. Forests in this alliance occur on dry hilltops, upper slopes, and ridges on acidic soils. The alliance also includes associations from some more non-acidic substrates, including hilltops and upper slopes in Louisiana associated with the Cook Mountain Formation and with calcareous prairies on the Fleming Formation in eastern Texas. It includes mesic to dry-mesic forests with mixed evergreen and deciduous canopies where Pinus echinata and one or more of the nominal Quercus spp. occur in varying ratios. In some associations Pinus taeda may be a dominant evergreen canopy component. Quercus rubra codominates in associations in the Ozarks and Ouachita Mountains. Other common species vary greatly with geography, but can include Carya alba, Carya texana, Sassafras albidum, Oxydendrum arboreum, Acer rubrum, Nyssa sylvatica, Cornus florida, Vaccinium arboreum, Vaccinium pallidum, Vaccinium stamineum, Chimaphila maculata, Tephrosia virginiana, Coreopsis major, and others. 
Accession Code: VB.CC.18657.PINUSECHINATAQU
Plot-observations of this Community Concept: 0
      Party Perspective according to: NatureServe (organization)
Perspective from: 26-Nov-1997 to: 01-May-2019
     
  • status: accepted
  • This Community's Level: Alliance
  • This Community's Children: [none]
Names:   Scientific: Pinus echinata - Quercus (alba, falcata, stellata, velutina) Forest Alliance
  Translated: Shortleaf Pine - (White Oak, Southern Red Oak, Post Oak, Black Oak) Forest Alliance
  UID: HIGHER_CLASS_UNIT.2.125978 NatureServe ExplorerNatureServe Explorer logo
  Code: A.394