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Crataegus (aestivalis, opaca, rufula) Seasonally Flooded Forest Alliance | Southeastern Ecology Working Gro...
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Name: Crataegus (aestivalis, opaca, rufula) Seasonally Flooded Forest Alliance
Reference: Southeastern Ecology Working Gro...
Description: This alliance includes communities dominated by one or more of the mayhaws, Crataegus aestivalis, Crataegus opaca, and/or Crataegus rufula, occurring in seasonally flooded depressions, which may occur either in floodplains or in uplands of the Coastal Plain of the southeastern United States. The mayhaws often dominate seasonally flooded depressions, and are small trees to 12 m tall and to at least 30 cm dbh. Canopy coverage in mayhaw ponds may vary from a closed canopy to an open, scattered, or zonal canopy of mayhaw. In the Florida Panhandle and adjacent portions of Alabama and Georgia, the various nominal species can occur intermixed. Crataegus aestivalis occurs from southeastern North Carolina through South Carolina and Georgia to northern peninsular Florida and eastern Panhandle Florida. Crataegus opaca occurs from eastern Texas east to southern Alabama and extreme western Panhandle Florida. Crataegus rufula occurs in southwestern Georgia, southeastern Alabama, and Panhandle Florida. Mayhaw forests occur in broad depressions of the central flatwoods of the Florida parishes of eastern Louisiana. The distributions of mayhaw communities are not very well understood. 
Accession Code: VB.CC.24043.CRATAEGUSAESTIV
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: Crataegus (aestivalis, opaca, rufula) Seasonally Flooded Forest Alliance
  Translated: (Eastern Mayhaw, Western Mayhaw, Rufous Mayhaw) Seasonally Flooded Forest Alliance
  Code: A.320
  UID: HIGHER_CLASS_UNIT.2.125585 NatureServe ExplorerNatureServe Explorer logo