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Sabal palmetto - Quercus virginiana Saturated Forest Alliance | Southeastern Ecology Working Gro...
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Name: Sabal palmetto - Quercus virginiana Saturated Forest Alliance
Reference: Southeastern Ecology Working Gro...
Description: This alliance encompasses wet palmetto - live oak forests, occurring throughout central and southern Florida; these are sometimes known as low hammocks or hydric hammocks. Sabal palmetto and Quercus virginiana generally share dominance, and few other trees except Juniperus virginiana var. silicicola are commonly encountered. Sabal palmetto or the other two primary canopy species may strongly dominate local patches. Morella cerifera (= Myrica cerifera) is a typical shrub or small tree. A related alliance encompasses more diverse-canopied hydric hammocks, occurring in more inland situations (or at least away from immediate coastal influence) and with enough admixture of deciduous and tardily deciduous trees to be placed in a mixed forest subclass (see below). This alliance generally occurs on sands, shell hash, or limestone, with either a substantial calcareous component or influence (past or present) of brackish water. Occurrences in North Carolina and South Carolina are of small size and are marginally attributable to this alliance. 
Accession Code: VB.CC.23201.SABALPALMETTOQU
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: Sabal palmetto - Quercus virginiana Saturated Forest Alliance
  Translated: Cabbage Palmetto - Live Oak Saturated Forest Alliance
  UID: HIGHER_CLASS_UNIT.2.125282 NatureServe ExplorerNatureServe Explorer logo
  Code: A.61