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Pinus rigida - Quercus coccinea / Vaccinium pallidum - (Morella pensylvanica) Woodland | Eastern Ecology Working Group of...
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Name: Pinus rigida - Quercus coccinea / Vaccinium pallidum - (Morella pensylvanica) Woodland
Reference: Eastern Ecology Working Group of...
Description: This vegetation is a matrix woodland 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 <i>Pinus rigida</i> plus the following oaks in variable proportions: <i>Quercus coccinea, Quercus velutina, Quercus alba</i>, and <i>Quercus rubra</i> and occasionally <i>Quercus stellata</i>. Tall shrubs such as <i>Quercus ilicifolia</i> can be sporadic to locally well-developed. Heaths tend to form a dense dwarf-shrub layer, especially <i>Gaylussacia baccata, Vaccinium angustifolium</i>, and <i>Vaccinium pallidum</i>. <i>Morella pensylvanica (= Myrica pensylvanica)</i> can also commonly occur. The herb layer is often sparse and characterized by <i>Pteridium aquilinum, Gaultheria procumbens</i>, and <i>Carex pensylvanica</i>. This mixed conifer-deciduous woodland is a fire-dependent community with a proportion of canopy species dependent on the fire regime. 
Accession Code: VB.CC.31018.CEGL006381
Plot-observations of this Community Concept: 0
      Party Perspective according to: NatureServe (organization)
Perspective from: 17-Nov-2014 to: 01-May-2019
     
  • status: accepted
  • This Community's Level: association
  • This Community's Children: [none]
Names:   UID: ELEMENT_GLOBAL.2.689535 NatureServe ExplorerNatureServe Explorer logo
  Common: Pitch Pine - Oak Forest
  Translated: Pitch Pine - Scarlet Oak / Blue Ridge Blueberry - (Northern Bayberry) Woodland
  Scientific: Pinus rigida - Quercus coccinea / Vaccinium pallidum - (Morella pensylvanica) Woodland
  Code: CEGL006381