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Quercus phellos - Liquidambar styraciflua / Ilex decidua - Carpinus caroliniana / Lysimachia radicans Forest | Southeastern Ecology Working Gro...
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Name: Quercus phellos - Liquidambar styraciflua / Ilex decidua - Carpinus caroliniana / Lysimachia radicans Forest
Reference: Southeastern Ecology Working Gro...
Description: This oak-sweetgum bottomland forest is found in the West Gulf Coastal Plain of Louisiana and Texas and possibly Arkansas. Quercus phellos strongly dominates the overstory, with Liquidambar styraciflua. Other canopy and subcanopy trees include Quercus michauxii, Quercus pagoda, Quercus nigra, Quercus lyrata, Ostrya virginiana, Ulmus americana, and Nyssa sylvatica. The midstory is dominated by Carpinus caroliniana, followed closely by Fraxinus caroliniana, Ilex decidua, and individuals of species present in the overstory. The understory contains species typical of bottomland habitats in the region including Sebastiania fruticosa, Campsis radicans, Justicia ovata, Bignonia capreolata, Lysimachia lanceolata, Carex louisianica, Carex tribuloides, Ampelopsis arborea, and Brunnichia ovata. 
Accession Code: VB.CC.21716.QUERCUSPHELLOSL
Plot-observations of this Community Concept: 0
      Party Perspective according to: NatureServe (organization)
Perspective from: 01-Jan-1995 to: 17-Nov-2014
      Names:   Translated: Willow Oak - Sweetgum / Possum-haw - Ironwood / Trailing Loosestrife Forest
  UID: ELEMENT_GLOBAL.2.686051 NatureServe ExplorerNatureServe Explorer logo
  Code: CEGL007370
  Scientific: Quercus phellos - Liquidambar styraciflua / Ilex decidua - Carpinus caroliniana / Lysimachia radicans Forest
  Common: West Gulf Coastal Plain Willow Oak Bottomland Forest
(convergence) and Synonyms:
(undetermined) Quercus phellos - Liquidambar styraciflua / Ilex decidua - Carpinus caroliniana / Lysimachia radicans Forest