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Piedmont Acidic Cliff Sparse Vegetation | Southeastern Ecology Working Gro...
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Name: Piedmont Acidic Cliff Sparse Vegetation
Reference: Southeastern Ecology Working Gro...
Description: This sparsely vegetated cliff association occurs in the Piedmont (and adjacent Coastal Plain) of the southeastern United States. Examples are found on steep to vertical outcrops of acidic substrates, in topographically low settings such as river bluffs that are not subject to flood scouring. Substrates may include various felsic igneous or metamorphic rocks, acidic saprolite, and occasionally unconsolidated acidic sediments. Vegetation is low in cover, and is confined to lichens and plants growing on bare rock and to sparse herbs, shrubs, and trees rooted in local pockets of deeper soil. The flora is a mix that usually includes drought-tolerant, shade-intolerant species, species shared with surrounding forests, and sometimes local occurrences of wetland species associated with small seepage zones. Most of the species are acid-tolerant, and more basophilic species are largely absent. Lichens and bryophytes may be abundant or scarce. 
Accession Code: VB.CC.24944.PIEDMONTACIDICC
Plot-observations of this Community Concept: 0
      Party Perspective according to: NatureServe (organization)
Perspective from: 03-Apr-2003 to: 17-Nov-2014
      Names:   Scientific: Piedmont Acidic Cliff Sparse Vegetation
  Translated: Piedmont Acidic Cliff Sparse Vegetation
  UID: ELEMENT_GLOBAL.2.688372 NatureServe ExplorerNatureServe Explorer logo
  Code: CEGL003979
  Common: Piedmont Cliff (Acidic Type)
(convergence) and Synonyms:
(undetermined) Piedmont Acidic Cliff Sparse Vegetation