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Pinus rigida - Quercus coccinea / Vaccinium pallidum - (Morella pensylvanica) Forest | Eastern Ecology Working Group of...
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Name: Pinus rigida - Quercus coccinea / Vaccinium pallidum - (Morella pensylvanica) Forest
Reference: Eastern Ecology Working Group of...
Description: This vegetation is a matrix forest type of the central Pine Barrens from Long Island, New York, north to Cape Cod, Massachusetts. It occurs on very well-drained sandy outwash or moraine deposits. The canopy is dominated by Pinus rigida plus the following oaks in variable proportions: Quercus coccinea, Quercus velutina, Quercus alba, and Quercus rubra and occasionally Quercus stellata. Tall shrubs such as Quercus ilicifolia can be sporadic to locally well-developed. Heaths tend to form a dense dwarf-shrub layer, especially Gaylussacia baccata, Vaccinium angustifolium, and Vaccinium pallidum. Morella pensylvanica (= Myrica pensylvanica) can also commonly occur. The herb layer is often sparse and characterized by Pteridium aquilinum, Gaultheria procumbens, and Carex pensylvanica. This mixed conifer-deciduous forest is a fire-dependent community with proportion of canopy species dependent on fire regime. 
Accession Code: VB.CC.28010.PINUSRIGIDAQUER
Plot-observations of this Community Concept: 0
      Party Perspective according to: NatureServe (organization)
Perspective from: 27-Apr-1997 to: 17-Nov-2014
      Names:   Translated: Pitch Pine - Scarlet Oak / Hillside Blueberry - (Northern Bayberry) Forest
  UID: ELEMENT_GLOBAL.2.689535 NatureServe ExplorerNatureServe Explorer logo
  Scientific: Pinus rigida - Quercus coccinea / Vaccinium pallidum - (Morella pensylvanica) Forest
  Code: CEGL006381
  Common: Pitch Pine - Oak Forest
(convergence) and Synonyms:
(undetermined) Pinus rigida - Quercus coccinea / Vaccinium pallidum - (Morella pensylvanica) Woodland