Name:
Pinus glabra - Quercus laurifolia Saturated Forest Alliance
Reference:
Southeastern Ecology Working Gro...
Description:
Vegetation in this alliance has a very restricted distribution; these communities are fire-sheltered forests of poorly drained flatwoods of the Coastal Plain of southwestern portion of the Florida Parishes of southeastern Louisiana. Characteristic canopy trees include Pinus glabra, Quercus laurifolia, Quercus phellos, Quercus michauxii, Quercus nigra, Quercus pagoda, Quercus virginiana, Pinus taeda, Nyssa biflora, Nyssa sylvatica, Magnolia grandiflora, Salix nigra, Liquidambar styraciflua, Carya glabra, Acer rubrum, and Fraxinus pennsylvanica. Understory trees and shrubs include Crataegus opaca and Sabal minor (often very abundant or dominant), Arundinaria gigantea ssp. tecta, Cephalanthus occidentalis, Diospyros virginiana, Cornus foemina, Crataegus viridis, Ilex opaca var. opaca, Ilex decidua, Itea virginica, Morella cerifera (= Myrica cerifera), Sambucus canadensis, Styrax americanus, and Viburnum dentatum. Woody vines include Ampelopsis arborea, Berchemia scandens, Brunnichia ovata, Campsis radicans, Toxicodendron radicans ssp. radicans, Smilax glauca, Smilax rotundifolia, and Vitis rotundifolia. Herbs include Boehmeria cylindrica, Carex spp., Chasmanthium latifolium, Chasmanthium laxum, Chasmanthium sessiliflorum, Cyperus spp., Gratiola virginiana, Hygrophila lacustris, Juncus spp., Justicia ovata, Ludwigia spp., Lycopus rubellus, Lycopus virginicus, Lysimachia radicans, Onoclea sensibilis, Osmunda regalis var. spectabilis, Phanopyrum gymnocarpon, Polygonum spp., Rhynchospora spp., Sabatia calycina, Saccharum giganteum, Saururus cernuus, Scirpus cyperinus, Scirpus spp., Solidago gigantea, Thelypteris palustris var. pubescens, Triadenum walteri, Vernonia gigantea, and Woodwardia areolata. Known associations in this alliance occur on calcareous and high-sodium soils. This vegetation occurs on hydric, acidic silt loams (Encrow, Gilbert, and Springfield series), on broad, low flats, in small to large depressional areas, and along small, intermittent, ill-defined drainages ('slashes'), on the Pleistocene prairie terraces in the southwestern portion of the Florida Parishes of southeastern Louisiana.
Accession Code:
VB.CC.21017.PINUSGLABRAQUER
Plot-observations of this Community Concept:
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