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Tsuga caroliniana - Pinus (rigida, pungens, virginiana) Forest | Southeastern Ecology Working Gro...
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Name: Tsuga caroliniana - Pinus (rigida, pungens, virginiana) Forest
Reference: Southeastern Ecology Working Gro...
Description: This xeric forest community is dominated by a mixture of Tsuga caroliniana and any or all of the following pine species: Pinus rigida, Pinus virginiana, and/or Pinus pungens. Additional canopy species may include Quercus prinus, Quercus rubra, and Carya glabra. This association is known from shallow soils over sedimentary and metasedimentary rock strata on exposed ridges and southwest-facing slopes above 2000 feet in the Southern Blue Ridge and upper Piedmont of North Carolina and Tennessee. The structure of the canopy varies from closed to open depending on disturbance history and environment. The patchy to open shrub layer of Tennessee occurrences is characterized by Buckleya distichophylla and Rhododendron minus in the upper shrub layer, and Vaccinium pallidum and Gaultheria procumbens in the lower shrub layer. The patchy to open herbaceous layer is characterized by Schizachyrium scoparium. As much as 25% of the ground cover may contain lichens, including Cladina rangiferina and Cladina subtenuis. 
Accession Code: VB.CC.19096.TSUGACAROLINIAN
Plot-observations of this Community Concept: 0
      Party Perspective according to: NatureServe (organization)
Perspective from: 26-Nov-1997 to: 17-Nov-2014
      Names:   Translated: Carolina Hemlock - (Pitch Pine, Table Mountain Pine, Virginia Pine) Forest
  UID: ELEMENT_GLOBAL.2.684046 NatureServe ExplorerNatureServe Explorer logo
  Code: CEGL006178
  Scientific: Tsuga caroliniana - Pinus (rigida, pungens, virginiana) Forest
  Common: Carolina Hemlock Forest (Pine Type)
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(undetermined) Tsuga caroliniana - Pinus (rigida, pungens, virginiana) Forest