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Pinus echinata - Quercus stellata - Quercus prinus - Carya glabra / (Danthonia spicata, Piptochaetium avenaceum) Forest | Southeastern Ecology Working Gro...
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Name: Pinus echinata - Quercus stellata - Quercus prinus - Carya glabra / (Danthonia spicata, Piptochaetium avenaceum) Forest
Reference: Southeastern Ecology Working Gro...
Description: This forest, dominated by Pinus echinata, Quercus stellata, Quercus prinus, and Carya glabra, is found on broad ridges in the southern end of the Appalachian Mountains in northeastern Alabama and northwestern Georgia. It also extends into the Cumberland Plateau of Kentucky and presumably Tennessee. Vaccinium pallidum is the dominant short shrub; the herbaceous stratum typically contains Piptochaetium avenaceum (to the south), and/or Danthonia spicata (to the north). 
Accession Code: VB.CC.22042.PINUSECHINATAQU
Plot-observations of this Community Concept: 0
      Party Perspective according to: NatureServe (organization)
Perspective from: 01-Nov-1994 to: 17-Nov-2014
      Names:   Translated: Shortleaf Pine - Post Oak - Rock Chestnut Oak - Pignut Hickory / (Poverty Oatgrass, Eastern Speargrass) Forest
  UID: ELEMENT_GLOBAL.2.685180 NatureServe ExplorerNatureServe Explorer logo
  Code: CEGL007500
  Scientific: Pinus echinata - Quercus stellata - Quercus prinus - Carya glabra / (Danthonia spicata, Piptochaetium avenaceum) Forest
  Common: Appalachian Shortleaf Pine - Xeric Oak Forest
(convergence) and Synonyms:
(undetermined) Pinus echinata - Quercus stellata - Quercus prinus - Carya glabra / (Danthonia spicata, Piptochaetium avenaceum) Forest