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Pinus echinata - Quercus stellata - Quercus prinus - Carya glabra / (Danthonia spicata, Piptochaetium avenaceum) Forest | Southeastern Ecology Working Gro...
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Name: Pinus echinata - Quercus stellata - Quercus prinus - Carya glabra / (Danthonia spicata, Piptochaetium avenaceum) Forest
Reference: Southeastern Ecology Working Gro...
Description: This forest, dominated by <i>Pinus echinata, Quercus stellata, Quercus prinus</i>, and <i>Carya glabra</i>, is found on broad ridges in the southern end of the Appalachian Mountains in northeastern Alabama and northwestern Georgia. It also extends into the Cumberland Plateau of Kentucky and presumably Tennessee. <i>Vaccinium pallidum</i> is the dominant short shrub; the herbaceous stratum typically contains <i>Piptochaetium avenaceum</i> (to the south), and/or <i>Danthonia spicata</i> (to the north). 
Accession Code: VB.CC.35499.CEGL007500
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
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Names:   Common: Appalachian Shortleaf Pine - Xeric Oak Forest
  Translated: Shortleaf Pine - Post Oak - Chestnut Oak - Pignut Hickory / (Poverty Oatgrass, Blackseed Speargrass) Forest
  Scientific: Pinus echinata - Quercus stellata - Quercus prinus - Carya glabra / (Danthonia spicata, Piptochaetium avenaceum) Forest
  Code: CEGL007500
  UID: ELEMENT_GLOBAL.2.685180 NatureServe ExplorerNatureServe Explorer logo