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Salix nigra - (Fraxinus pennsylvanica, Acacia farnesiana) Forest | Southeastern Ecology Working Gro...
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Name: Salix nigra - (Fraxinus pennsylvanica, Acacia farnesiana) Forest
Reference: Southeastern Ecology Working Gro...
Description: This community is described from seasonally to semipermanently flooded depressions in the Coastal Plain of Texas, but may occur elsewhere. It is dominated or codominated by Salix nigra. In the Columbia Bottomlands area of coastal Texas, this community occupies large (250-acre) shallow ponds (e.g., coalesced, sedimented old oxbows) in ancient river floodplains. The successional status of this vegetation is undetermined, but it is apparently long persisting. The overstory is dominated by Fraxinus pennsylvanica and Salix nigra. Though patchily distributed, the shrub layer is distinctive and dominated by Cephalanthus occidentalis. The herbaceous layer is characterized by Phanopyrum gymnocarpon (= Panicum gymnocarpon), Echinodorus spp., Polygonum subgen. Persicaria spp., and Sagittaria spp. This association is also found fringing shallow, upland ponds along the Texas Coastal Bend. These examples may contain Acacia farnesiana. 
Accession Code: VB.CC.24586.SALIXNIGRAFRAXI
Plot-observations of this Community Concept: 0
      Party Perspective according to: NatureServe (organization)
Perspective from: 28-Jun-2001 to: 17-Nov-2014
      Names:   Translated: Black Willow - (Green Ash, Huisache) Forest
  UID: ELEMENT_GLOBAL.2.687468 NatureServe ExplorerNatureServe Explorer logo
  Code: CEGL008481
  Scientific: Salix nigra - (Fraxinus pennsylvanica, Acacia farnesiana) Forest
(convergence) and Synonyms:
(undetermined) Salix nigra - (Fraxinus pennsylvanica, Acacia farnesiana) Forest