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NY Heritage: Calcareous talus slope woodland | Ecological Communities of New York, 2nd Ed.
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Name: NY Heritage: Calcareous talus slope woodland Reference: Ecological Communities of New York, 2nd Ed. Description: An open or closed canopy community that occurs on talus slopes composed of calcareous bedrock such as limestone or dolomite. The soils are usually moist and loamy; there may be numerous rock outcrops. Characteristic trees include sugar maple (Acer saccharum), white ash (Fraxinus americana), hop hornbeam (Ostrya virginiana), eastern red cedar (Juniperus virginiana), northern white cedar (Thuja occidentalis), basswood (Tilia americana), slippery elm (Ulmus rubra) and butternut (Juglans cinerea). Shrubs may be abundant if the canopy is open; characteristic shrubs include round-leaf dogwood (Cornus rugosa), downy arrowwood (Viburnum rafinesquianum), prickly ash (Zanthoxylum americanum), and bladdernut (Staphylea trifolia). Common vines include bittersweet (Celastrus scandens), Virginia creeper (Parthenocissus quinquefolia), and climbing fumitory (Adlumia fungosa). Herbaceous vegetation may be quite diverse; characteristic species include bulblet fern (Cystopteris bulbifera), lady fern (Athyrium filix-femina var. asplenioides), oak fern (Gymnocarpium dryopteris), bottlebrush grass (Elymus hystrix), herb robert (Geranium robertianum), Solomon's-seal (Polygonatum pubescens), wild ginger (Asarum canadense), white baneberry (Actaea pachypoda), early meadow-rue (Thalictrum dioicum), bloodroot (Sanguinaria canadensis), blue-stem goldenrod (Solidago caesia), blue cohosh (Caulophyllum thalictroides), lyre-leaved rock cress (Arabis lyrata), white wood aster (Aster divaricatus) and ricegrass (Oryzopsis racemosa). Rock outcrops may have ferns such as walking fern (Asplenium rhizophyllum) and maidenhair spleenwort (Asplenium trichomanes). Bryophytes on wet forested talus can include Hylocomium splendens. Physiognomic variants range from northern white cedar-dominated to hardwood-dominated forest to non-vegetated talus.  Accession Code: VB.CC.28597.NYHERITAGECALCA Plot-observations of this Community Concept: 1
	Party Perspective according to: Howard, Timothy Perspective from: 03-Dec-2004 to: ongoing
	status: accepted Community's Parent: NY Heritage: TERRESTRIAL SYSTEM This Community's Children: [none]		Names:   Other: NY Heritage: Calcareous talus slope woodland