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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 <i>Taxodium ascendens</i> trees form the fairly open to dense canopy. Shrubs species present include <i>Cyrilla racemiflora, Cliftonia monophylla, Ilex myrtifolia, Clethra alnifolia, Lyonia lucida</i>, and <i>Stillingia aquatica</i>. <i>Carex</i> spp. and <i>Rhynchospora</i> spp. including <i>Carex striata, Carex turgescens</i>, and <i>Rhynchospora microcephala (= Rhynchospora cephalantha var. microcephala)</i>, occur in the water and on the drier edges. <i>Scleria baldwinii</i> and <i>Cladium mariscus ssp. jamaicense</i> 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 <i>Taxodium ascendens</i>-dominated forests. 
Accession Code: VB.CC.35130.CEGL007419
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:   Common: Pond-cypress Stringer Forest
  Translated: Pond-cypress / Myrtle Dahoon / (Walter's Sedge, Pine Barren Sedge) Stringer Forest
  Scientific: Taxodium ascendens / Ilex myrtifolia / Carex (striata, turgescens) Stringer Forest
  Code: CEGL007419
  UID: ELEMENT_GLOBAL.2.684982 NatureServe ExplorerNatureServe Explorer logo