Name:
Pinus virginiana - Pinus rigida - Quercus stellata / Ceanothus americanus - Kalmia latifolia / Thalictrum revolutum Woodland
Reference:
Southeastern Ecology Working Gro...
Description:
This community includes pine-oak woodlands over serpentine, olivine, dunite, and other ultramafic rocks, at elevations from 1800-3100 feet, in the Southern Blue Ridge mountains of North Carolina and extreme northern Georgia. The open canopy is typically dominated by Pinus virginiana, Pinus rigida, Pinus strobus, Quercus stellata, Quercus rubra, and Quercus falcata (lower elevations only), with other species including Sassafras albidum, Acer rubrum var. rubrum, Betula lenta, Liriodendron tulipifera, Nyssa sylvatica, and Oxydendrum arboreum. Typical shrub and woody vine species are Ceanothus americanus, Cornus florida, Kalmia latifolia, Castanea pumila, Gaultheria procumbens, Gaylussacia baccata, Lyonia ligustrina var. ligustrina, Parthenocissus quinquefolia, Pyrularia pubera, Rhododendron calendulaceum, Rhododendron maximum, Smilax rotundifolia, and Vaccinium stamineum. The herb layer can be very well-developed or patchy, and in more open examples can be graminoid-dominated.
Accession Code:
VB.CC.22196.PINUSVIRGINIANA
Plot-observations of this Community Concept:
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