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Salix nigra Seasonally Flooded Forest Alliance | Southeastern Ecology Working Gro...
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Name: Salix nigra Seasonally Flooded Forest Alliance Reference: Southeastern Ecology Working Gro... Description: This alliance contains Salix nigra communities with seasonally flooded hydrology, i.e., the water table is below the soil surface by the end of the growing season in most years. They can occur in the swamps away from the river, behind the levees in the Mississippi River floodplain with Carya aquatica (K. Ribbeck pers. comm.), as well as on newly accreted areas on large river floodplains and along lakeshores, irrigation reservoirs, and borrow areas. These forests also may develop following clearcut logging in swamp forests. Species composition varies with geography and topographic setting. Other species that may be present include Quercus lyrata, Taxodium distichum, Nyssa aquatica, Nyssa biflora, Morella cerifera (= Myrica cerifera), Gleditsia triacanthos, Fraxinus pennsylvanica, Acer rubrum, and Celtis laevigata. Cephalanthus occidentalis is a common shrub in these forests. The vine component often is well-developed. These communities are often short-lived and succeed to bottomland hardwood forests. However, reportedly in Mississippi, long-persisting forests of this type have huge trees on loamy soils of low terraces with little understory (R. Wieland pers. comm.). In the Columbia Bottomlands area of coastal Texas, vegetation classified in this alliance occupies large shallow ponds in ancient river floodplains. The successional status of this vegetation is undetermined, but it is apparently long persisting.  Accession Code: VB.CC.18957.SALIXNIGRASEASO 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: Salix nigra Seasonally Flooded Forest Alliance   Translated: Black Willow Seasonally Flooded Forest Alliance   UID: HIGHER_CLASS_UNIT.2.125750 NatureServe Explorer   Code: A.334