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Quercus stellata - (Pinus echinata) / Schizachyrium scoparium - Echinacea laevigata - Oligoneuron album Woodland | Southeastern Ecology Working Gro...
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Name: Quercus stellata - (Pinus echinata) / Schizachyrium scoparium - Echinacea laevigata - Oligoneuron album Woodland
Reference: Southeastern Ecology Working Gro...
Description: This community consists of one of two prairie-like woodlands associated with diabase in the Carolina Piedmont, representing the north-central North Examples often have a canopy dominated by Quercus stellata and Pinus echinata (often some Pinus taeda as well because of fire suppression), a Juniperus virginiana var. virginiana understory (reduced or eliminated by fire), and grass/forb-dominated openings with numerous calciphilic prairie components dominating. Open conditions are maintained to some degree by shallow soils, shrink-swell clays, and perhaps by magnesium toxicity, but disturbance by fire is required for long-term persistence. Other characteristic species include Acer barbatum, Sorghastrum nutans, Baptisia australis var. aberrans (= Baptisia minor var. aberrans), Silphium terebinthinaceum, Oligoneuron album, Oligoneuron rigidum, Symphyotrichum parviceps (= Aster parviceps), Eryngium yuccifolium var. yuccifolium, Hypericum virgatum, Marshallia [sp. nov. ined.], Blephilia ciliata, Salvia urticifolia, Thaspium barbinode, and Packera anonyma (= Senecio anonymus). The large number of unique species (long-distance disjuncts and an endemic) suggest that recognition of this community as unique is warranted, though it is clearly related to diabase-influenced vegetation of both Virginia and the southern Carolina Piedmont. 
Accession Code: VB.CC.25698.QUERCUSSTELLATA
Plot-observations of this Community Concept: 0
      Party Perspective according to: NatureServe (organization)
Perspective from: 01-Sep-1994 to: 17-Nov-2014
      Names:   Translated: Post Oak - (Shortleaf Pine) / Little Bluestem - Smooth Coneflower - Prairie Goldenrod Woodland
  UID: ELEMENT_GLOBAL.2.689466 NatureServe ExplorerNatureServe Explorer logo
  Code: CEGL003558
  Scientific: Quercus stellata - (Pinus echinata) / Schizachyrium scoparium - Echinacea laevigata - Oligoneuron album Woodland
  Common: Piedmont Basic Hardpan Woodland (Northern Type)
(convergence) and Synonyms:
(undetermined) Quercus stellata - (Pinus echinata) / Schizachyrium scoparium - Echinacea laevigata - Oligoneuron album Woodland