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Quercus stellata / Schizachyrium scoparium - Sorghastrum nutans - Pycnanthemum tenuifolium - Packera paupercula Wooded Herbaceous Vegetation | Southeastern Ecology Working Gro...
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Name: Quercus stellata / Schizachyrium scoparium - Sorghastrum nutans - Pycnanthemum tenuifolium - Packera paupercula Wooded Herbaceous Vegetation Reference: Southeastern Ecology Working Gro... Description: This association is restricted to Virginia's Blue Ridge. It occurs over amphibolite, which weathers to produce high base status soils. This community is known only from Buffalo Mountain in the southern Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia. Although floristically related to other more common types of glades, this is a distinct type that reflects the unusual environmental conditions of the small glades on amphibole gneiss bedrock of Buffalo Mountain. There are several small openings with this type of glade set within a matrix of oak-dominated vegetation. Typical stands of this association contain Quercus stellata and Juniperus virginiana var. virginiana in the open to sparse canopy, with Schizachyrium scoparium as a dominant grass and Castilleja coccinea as a characteristic herb.  Accession Code: VB.CC.21620.QUERCUSSTELLATA Plot-observations of this Community Concept: 0
	Party Perspective according to: NatureServe (organization) Perspective from: 01-Nov-1997 to: 17-Nov-2014
	status: accepted Community's Parent: (Quercus stellata, Quercus marilandica) / Schizachyrium scoparium Wooded Herbaceous Alliance This Community's Level: Association This Community's Children: [none]		Names:   Translated: Post Oak / Little Bluestem - Yellow Indiangrass - Narrowleaf Mountainmint - Balsam Ragwort Wooded Herbaceous Vegetation   UID: ELEMENT_GLOBAL.2.685100 NatureServe Explorer   Code: CEGL006215   Scientific: Quercus stellata / Schizachyrium scoparium - Sorghastrum nutans - Pycnanthemum tenuifolium - Packera paupercula Wooded Herbaceous Vegetation   Common: Southern Blue Ridge Mafic Barren (convergence) and Synonyms: (undetermined) Quercus stellata / Schizachyrium scoparium - Sorghastrum nutans - Pycnanthemum tenuifolium - Packera paupercula Wooded Herbaceous Vegetation