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Quercus stellata / Schizachyrium scoparium - Sorghastrum nutans - Pycnanthemum tenuifolium - Packera paupercula Wooded Herbaceous Vegetation | Southeastern Ecology Working Gro...
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Name: Quercus stellata / Schizachyrium scoparium - Sorghastrum nutans - Pycnanthemum tenuifolium - Packera paupercula Wooded Herbaceous Vegetation
Reference: Southeastern Ecology Working Gro...
Description: This association is restricted to Virginia's Blue Ridge. It occurs over amphibolite, which weathers to produce high base status soils. This community is known only from Buffalo Mountain in the southern Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia. Although floristically related to other more common types of glades, this is a distinct type that reflects the unusual environmental conditions of the small glades on amphibole gneiss bedrock of Buffalo Mountain. There are several small openings with this type of glade set within a matrix of oak-dominated vegetation. Typical stands of this association contain <i>Quercus stellata</i> and <i>Juniperus virginiana var. virginiana</i> in the open to sparse canopy, with <i>Schizachyrium scoparium</i> as a dominant grass and <i>Castilleja coccinea</i> as a characteristic herb. 
Accession Code: VB.CC.35240.CEGL006215
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: Southern Blue Ridge Mafic Barrens
  Translated: Post Oak / Little Bluestem - Indiangrass - Narrowleaf Mountainmint - Balsam Groundsel Wooded Herbaceous Vegetation
  Scientific: Quercus stellata / Schizachyrium scoparium - Sorghastrum nutans - Pycnanthemum tenuifolium - Packera paupercula Wooded Herbaceous Vegetation
  Code: CEGL006215
  UID: ELEMENT_GLOBAL.2.685100 NatureServe ExplorerNatureServe Explorer logo