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A.988 | EcoArt 2002
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Name: A.988
Reference: EcoArt 2002
Description: Vegetation in this alliance occurs in seasonally flooded basins in which the water level generally is beneath the soil surface by the end of the growing season. ~Cephalanthus occidentalis$ is the dominant species. Herbaceous species that may be present include ~Carex striata, Glyceria$ spp., ~Polygonum amphibium$, and ~Panicum verrucosum$. This alliance is distributed in the Coastal Plain in Maryland and Virginia and possibly along the Atlantic north to Massachusetts, the Interior Low Plateau of Tennessee, and possibly adjoining states; it also occurs in California. This alliance includes shrub vegetation of ponds over fragipan soils in southeastern central Tennessee. 
Accession Code: VB.CC.2614.A988
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.B.2.N.e
  • This Community's Level: Alliance
  • This Community's Children: [none]
Names:   Scientific: CEPHALANTHUS OCCIDENTALIS SEASONALLY FLOODED SHRUBLAND ALLIANCE
  Code: A.988
  Common: Buttonbush Seasonally Flooded Shrubland Alliance
(convergence) and Synonyms:
(undetermined) Cephalanthus occidentalis Seasonally Flooded Shrubland Alliance