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Pinus serotina / Gordonia lasianthus - Persea palustris Saturated Woodland | Southeastern Ecology Working Gro...
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Name: Pinus serotina / Gordonia lasianthus - Persea palustris Saturated Woodland
Reference: Southeastern Ecology Working Gro...
Description: These evergreen forest/woodlands occur within creek drainages, depressions, and in ecotonal seepage areas between fire-maintained longleaf pine uplands and adjacent creeks and/or lakes. Most known examples are documented from Camp Blanding Military Reservation in northeastern Florida, but this community is also known from Ocala National Forest and Timucuan Ecological and Historic Preserve. A canopy of <i>Pinus serotina</i> (typically of 50% cover or less) overtops a subcanopy of <i>Persea palustris, Gordonia lasianthus</i>, and <i>Magnolia virginiana</i>. Occasionally <i>Pinus elliottii</i> may occur in the canopy with <i>Pinus serotina</i>. The community is typically dense with midstory and understory shrubs, which include <i>Persea palustris, Gordonia lasianthus, Cyrilla racemiflora, Ilex coriacea, Viburnum nudum, Lyonia lucida, Morella</i> spp. (= <i>Myrica</i> spp.), and occasional <i>Agarista populifolia</i>. The ferns <i>Osmunda cinnamomea</i> and <i>Woodwardia areolata</i> are sometimes present, and the vine <i>Smilax laurifolia</i> is usually found in small amounts. In northeastern Florida, at the Timucuan Ecological and Historic Preserve, dead and dying <i>Persea palustris</i> indicate that this community is being affected by laurel wilt, which is caused by a vascular wilt fungus that is transmitted to species in the Lauraceae family via. the non-native redbay ambrosia beetle (<i>Xyleborus glabratus</i>). 
Accession Code: VB.CC.35570.CEGL007996
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 Pine / Bay Swamp
  Translated: Pond Pine / Loblolly-bay - Swamp Bay Saturated Woodland
  Scientific: Pinus serotina / Gordonia lasianthus - Persea palustris Saturated Woodland
  Code: CEGL007996
  UID: ELEMENT_GLOBAL.2.685874 NatureServe ExplorerNatureServe Explorer logo