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Fagus grandifolia - Quercus alba - Quercus rubra Forest | Eastern Ecology Working Group of...
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Name: Fagus grandifolia - Quercus alba - Quercus rubra Forest
Reference: Eastern Ecology Working Group of...
Description: This association comprises coastal oak-beech forests of the north Atlantic coast and occurs on dry well-drained, loamy sand of morainal coves. It has a mixed canopy of Fagus grandifolia, Quercus alba, and Quercus velutina in varying proportions. Quercus rubra is a common associate, although it never occurs in abundance. Occasional canopy associates that occur with low cover can include Quercus coccinea, Quercus prinus, Acer saccharum, and Betula papyrifera (the latter two species are only occasionally present). There are relatively few shrubs and the herb layer includes tree seedlings, especially of Quercus spp. and Fagus grandifolia, plus Carex swanii, Maianthemum canadense, Eurybia divaricata (= Aster divaricatus), Epifagus virginiana, and Maianthemum racemosum (= Smilacina racemosa). This community is related to oak-beech Coastal Plain forests of this alliance in southern New Jersey and farther south, but is differentiated from them by the presence of Quercus rubra, Betula papyrifera, and Acer saccharum, and by the absence of Liriodendron tulipifera. 
Accession Code: VB.CC.26482.FAGUSGRANDIFOLI
Plot-observations of this Community Concept: 0
      Party Perspective according to: NatureServe (organization)
Perspective from: 16-Apr-1998 to: 17-Nov-2014
      Names:   Translated: American Beech - White Oak - Northern Red Oak Forest
  UID: ELEMENT_GLOBAL.2.689277 NatureServe ExplorerNatureServe Explorer logo
  Code: CEGL006377
  Scientific: Fagus grandifolia - Quercus alba - Quercus rubra Forest
  Common: Northeastern Atlantic Coastal Oak - Beech Forest
(convergence) and Synonyms:
(undetermined) Fagus grandifolia - Quercus alba - Quercus rubra Forest