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Taxodium ascendens / Ilex myrtifolia / Carex (striata, turgescens) Stringer Forest | Southeastern Ecology Working Gro...
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Name: Taxodium ascendens / Ilex myrtifolia / Carex (striata, turgescens) Stringer Forest
Reference: Southeastern Ecology Working Gro...
Description: This forested community, often known as "cypress stringers," occurs along small, diffuse creeks or streams, and possibly along larger rivers. Small Taxodium ascendens trees form the fairly open to dense canopy. Shrubs species present include Cyrilla racemiflora, Cliftonia monophylla, Ilex myrtifolia, Clethra alnifolia, Lyonia lucida, and Stillingia aquatica. Carex spp. and Rhynchospora spp. including Carex striata, Carex turgescens, and Rhynchospora microcephala (= Rhynchospora cephalantha var. microcephala), occur in the water and on the drier edges. Scleria baldwinii and Cladium mariscus ssp. jamaicense can be significant herbaceous components. This community occurs on the Coastal Plain from southeastern South Carolina to northern Florida, and west to southeastern Louisiana. The sandy subsoil is overlain by peat. Fire probably occurs more often here than in other Taxodium ascendens-dominated forests. 
Accession Code: VB.CC.28376.TAXODIUMASCENDE
Plot-observations of this Community Concept: 0
      Party Perspective according to: NatureServe (organization)
Perspective from: 26-Nov-1997 to: 17-Nov-2014
      Names:   Translated: Pond-cypress / Myrtle Dahoon / (Peatland Sedge, Pinebarren Sedge) Stringer Forest
  UID: ELEMENT_GLOBAL.2.684982 NatureServe ExplorerNatureServe Explorer logo
  Scientific: Taxodium ascendens / Ilex myrtifolia / Carex (striata, turgescens) Stringer Forest
  Common: Pond-cypress Stringer Forest
  Code: CEGL007419
(convergence) and Synonyms:
(undetermined) Taxodium ascendens / Ilex myrtifolia / Carex (striata, turgescens) Stringer Forest