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Quercus laurifolia - Nyssa biflora Saturated Forest Alliance | Southeastern Ecology Working Gro...
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Name: Quercus laurifolia - Nyssa biflora Saturated Forest Alliance
Reference: Southeastern Ecology Working Gro...
Description: Forests in this alliance are described as nonriverine flats dominated or codominated by Quercus laurifolia with Nyssa biflora, Quercus phellos, Acer rubrum var. trilobum, and Carpinus caroliniana. Clethra alnifolia and Leucothoe axillaris are typical shrubs. These forests occur on poorly drained interstream flats with fine-textured mineral soils. Hydrology and species composition separate these communities from alluvial bottomland communities with somewhat similar canopy composition. They may occur on the margins of large peatlands, and on smaller upland flats where they experience mostly saturated soils as a result of poor drainage, high water tables, and perhaps sheet flow from adjacent pocosins. Examples of forests in this alliance currently are known from the Coastal Plain of North Carolina, and Virginia, and they are likely to occur in Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, and South Carolina. 
Accession Code: VB.CC.21057.QUERCUSLAURIFOL
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: Quercus laurifolia - Nyssa biflora Saturated Forest Alliance
  Translated: Diamondleaf Oak - Swamp Blackgum Saturated Forest Alliance
  UID: HIGHER_CLASS_UNIT.2.126285 NatureServe ExplorerNatureServe Explorer logo
  Code: A.352