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A.785 | EcoArt 2002
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Name: A.785
Reference: EcoArt 2002
Description: This alliance consists of upland maritime dune shrublands of southeastern Coastal Plain (southern, mid-Atlantic, and Gulf coasts). Vegetation of this alliance is characteristically 0.5-3 m tall, typically with a single, extremely dense stratum, with ~Quercus virginiana$ dominant or codominant, and often also with species such as ~Ilex vomitoria, Morella cerifera (= Myrica cerifera), Quercus geminata$ (in range), ~Serenoa repens$ (in range), ~Smilax auriculata, Prunus caroliniana, Juniperus virginiana var. silicicola, Smilax bona-nox, Persea borbonia$, and ~Zanthoxylum clava-herculis$. It occupies linear strands on frontal dune ridges and on the leeward sides and tops of rear dunes, where it is protected from salt-water flooding and extreme salt spray. It also occurs on low dunes and rises on the back sides of barrier islands, as upland rises associated with ~Juncus roemerianus$ marshes. Examples of this vegetation in Mississippi contain ~Baccharis halimifolia$. 
Accession Code: VB.CC.2416.A785
Plot-observations of this Community Concept: 0
      Party Perspective according to: NatureServe (organization)
Perspective from: 26-Nov-1997 to: 17-Mar-2005
     
  • status: accepted
  • Community's Parent: III.A.2.N.c
  • This Community's Level: Alliance
  • This Community's Children: [none]
Names:   Scientific: QUERCUS VIRGINIANA - ILEX VOMITORIA - (MORELLA CERIFERA) SHRUBLAND ALLIANCE
  Code: A.785
  Common: Live Oak - Yaupon - (Wax-myrtle) Shrubland Alliance
(convergence) and Synonyms:
(undetermined) Quercus virginiana - Ilex vomitoria - (Morella cerifera) Shrubland Alliance