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Quercus macrocarpa / Prunus virginiana - Symphoricarpos occidentalis Woodland | Midwestern Ecology Working Group...
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Name: Quercus macrocarpa / Prunus virginiana - Symphoricarpos occidentalis Woodland
Reference: Midwestern Ecology Working Group...
Description: This oak woodland type is found in the northwestern Great Plains and Black Hills of the United States. Stands occur along river valley slopes, valley bottoms, upland ravines, and butte or hill slopes. Soils are fertile and relatively mesic. This community is a woodland or forest dominated by Quercus macrocarpa and Fraxinus pennsylvanica in the tree layer, Amelanchier alnifolia and Prunus virginiana in the shrub layer, and Carex sprengelii, Poa pratensis, and Galium boreale in the herbaceous layer. Stands in the Black Hills often have Symphoricarpos occidentalis as a dominant shrub. Along the Missouri River, in North Dakota, ravine forests containing Quercus macrocarpa have rather closed canopies, resulting in a lack of a tall-shrub and sapling layer. These forests reach a height of about 23 m at maturity. 
Accession Code: VB.CC.24066.QUERCUSMACROCAR
Plot-observations of this Community Concept: 0
      Party Perspective according to: NatureServe (organization)
Perspective from: 26-Nov-1997 to: 17-Nov-2014
      Names:   Translated: Bur Oak / Choke Cherry - Western Snowberry Woodland
  UID: ELEMENT_GLOBAL.2.687938 NatureServe ExplorerNatureServe Explorer logo
  Code: CEGL002138
  Scientific: Quercus macrocarpa / Prunus virginiana - Symphoricarpos occidentalis Woodland
  Common: Bur Oak / Choke Cherry - Western Snowberry Woodland
(convergence) and Synonyms:
(undetermined) Quercus macrocarpa / Prunus virginiana - Symphoricarpos occidentalis Woodland