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Fraxinus americana - Juniperus virginiana / Talinum teretifolium - Polygonum tenue - Opuntia humifusa Wooded Herbaceous Vegetation | Eastern Ecology Working Group of...
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Name: Fraxinus americana - Juniperus virginiana / Talinum teretifolium - Polygonum tenue - Opuntia humifusa Wooded Herbaceous Vegetation Reference: Eastern Ecology Working Group of... Description: This community is known only from scattered mafic outcrops in the northern Virginia Piedmont. It occupies exposed, xeric bedrock exposures and has a mixed physiognomy best characterized as herbaceous with scattered, stunted trees. <i>Fraxinus americana</i> and <i>Juniperus virginiana</i> are the most typical woody plants. Dominant and diagnostic lower-strata species include <i>Opuntia humifusa</i>, <i>Talinum teretifolium</i>, <i>Polygonum tenue</i>, <i>Krigia virginica</i>, <i>Carex pensylvanica</i>, and <i>Danthonia spicata</i>.  Accession Code: VB.CC.31022.CEGL006294 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.2.689765 NatureServe Explorer   Common: Piedmont Mafic Barrens   Translated: White Ash - Eastern Red-cedar / Quill Fameflower - Pleatleaf Knotweed - Eastern Prickly-pear Wooded Herbaceous Vegetation   Scientific: Fraxinus americana - Juniperus virginiana / Talinum teretifolium - Polygonum tenue - Opuntia humifusa Wooded Herbaceous Vegetation   Code: CEGL006294