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Pinus echinata / Vaccinium (pallidum, stamineum) - Kalmia latifolia Forest | Southeastern Ecology Working Gro...
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Name: Pinus echinata / Vaccinium (pallidum, stamineum) - Kalmia latifolia Forest
Reference: Southeastern Ecology Working Gro...
Description: This association includes forest vegetation with greater than 75% of the canopy cover of Pinus echinata, occurring over a shrub stratum dominated by ericaceous species, typically Vaccinium pallidum, Vaccinium stamineum, and Kalmia latifolia. Deciduous species make-up less than 25% of the canopy coverage and may include Quercus falcata, Quercus coccinea, or, in the southern part of this association's range, Quercus stellata and Quercus marilandica. This community often has a midstory tree stratum with Oxydendrum arboreum, Carya pallida, Cornus florida, or Diospyros virginiana. Other characteristic species include Smilax glauca, Silphium compositum, Pteridium aquilinum var. latiusculum, Scleria oligantha, Piptochaetium avenaceum, and Tephrosia virginiana. These forests occur in the lower elevations (below 2400 feet) of the southern Appalachian Mountains on ridges and upper slopes, typically with southern to western exposures. 
Accession Code: VB.CC.26854.PINUSECHINATAVA
Plot-observations of this Community Concept: 0
      Party Perspective according to: NatureServe (organization)
Perspective from: 01-Aug-1994 to: 17-Nov-2014
      Names:   Code: CEGL007078
  Common: Appalachian Shortleaf Pine Forest
  Translated: Shortleaf Pine / (Hillside Blueberry, Deerberry) - Mountain Laurel Forest
  UID: ELEMENT_GLOBAL.2.689027 NatureServe ExplorerNatureServe Explorer logo
  Scientific: Pinus echinata / Vaccinium (pallidum, stamineum) - Kalmia latifolia Forest
(convergence) and Synonyms:
(undetermined) Pinus echinata / Vaccinium (pallidum, stamineum) - Kalmia latifolia Forest