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A.327 | EcoArt 2002
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Name: A.327
Reference: EcoArt 2002
Description: This alliance occurs in seasonally flooded portions of active floodplains that periodically receive overbank flooding and hold water into the growing season. The canopy usually contains ~Quercus laurifolia$ or ~Quercus phellos$. Other species characteristic of forests in this alliance include ~Taxodium distichum, Nyssa biflora, Quercus nigra, Fraxinus caroliniana, Itea virginica, Sabal minor, Justicia ovata, Proserpinaca pectinata$, and ~Saururus cernuus$. The subcanopy layer is often well-developed and ~Carpinus caroliniana$ is common, but the shrub and herbaceous layers usually are sparse. These forests often grade into ~Taxodium - Nyssa$ swamps. They are distributed in the Atlantic Coastal Plain from North Carolina and possibly Virginia to Georgia, and in the Gulf Coast to Louisiana and possibly Texas. An association described from Ft. Benning and the Oconee National Forest is dominated by ~Quercus phellos$ and ~Liquidambar styraciflua$. 
Accession Code: VB.CC.1951.A327
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.e
  • This Community's Level: Alliance
  • This Community's Children: [none]
Names:   Scientific: QUERCUS (LAURIFOLIA, PHELLOS) SEASONALLY FLOODED FOREST ALLIANCE
  Common: (Diamondleaf Oak, Willow Oak) Seasonally Flooded Forest Alliance
  Code: A.327
(convergence) and Synonyms:
(undetermined) Quercus (laurifolia, phellos) Seasonally Flooded Forest Alliance