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Name: Sabal palmetto - Quercus virginiana Saturated Forest
Reference: Southeastern Ecology Working Gro...
Description: These wet palmetto - live oak forests occur throughout central and southern Florida, and are sometimes known as low hammocks or hydric hammocks. At increasingly smaller scales, this or related vegetation range as far north as southern North Carolina. <i>Sabal palmetto</i> and <i>Quercus virginiana</i> generally share canopy dominance, and few other trees except <i>Juniperus virginiana var. silicicola</i> are commonly encountered. <i>Sabal palmetto</i> or the other two primary canopy species may strongly dominate local patches. <i>Morella cerifera (= Myrica cerifera)</i> is a typical shrub or small tree. Some related vegetation includes more diverse-canopied hydric hammocks, occurring in more inland situations (or at least away from immediate coastal influence) and with enough admixture of deciduous and tardily deciduous trees to be placed in a mixed forest subclass. This vegetation generally occurs on sands, shell hash, or limestone, with either a substantial calcareous component or influence (past or present) of brackish water. Occurrences in North Carolina and South Carolina are of small size and are marginally attributable to this alliance, where they occur only as small inclusions in, or adjacent to, upland maritime forests. 
Accession Code: VB.CC.35246.CEGL007040
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Perspective from: 17-Nov-2014 to: 01-May-2019
     
  • status: accepted
  • This Community's Level: association
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Names:   Common: Palmetto - Live Oak Hydric Hammock
  Translated: Cabbage Palmetto - Live Oak Saturated Forest
  Scientific: Sabal palmetto - Quercus virginiana Saturated Forest
  Code: CEGL007040
  UID: ELEMENT_GLOBAL.2.686345 NatureServe ExplorerNatureServe Explorer logo