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Pinus virginiana - Pinus rigida - Quercus stellata / Ceanothus americanus - Kalmia latifolia / Thalictrum revolutum Woodland | Southeastern Ecology Working Gro...
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Name: Pinus virginiana - Pinus rigida - Quercus stellata / Ceanothus americanus - Kalmia latifolia / Thalictrum revolutum Woodland
Reference: Southeastern Ecology Working Gro...
Description: This community includes pine-oak woodlands over serpentine, olivine, dunite, and other ultramafic rocks, at elevations from 550 to 950 m (1800-3100 feet), in the Southern Blue Ridge mountains of North Carolina and extreme northern Georgia. The open canopy is typically dominated by <i>Pinus virginiana, Pinus rigida, Pinus strobus, Quercus stellata, Quercus rubra</i>, and <i>Quercus falcata</i> (lower elevations only), with other species including <i>Sassafras albidum, Acer rubrum var. rubrum, Betula lenta, Liriodendron tulipifera, Nyssa sylvatica</i>, and <i>Oxydendrum arboreum</i>. Typical shrub and woody vine species are <i>Ceanothus americanus, Cornus florida, Kalmia latifolia, Castanea pumila, Gaultheria procumbens, Gaylussacia baccata, Lyonia ligustrina var. ligustrina, Parthenocissus quinquefolia, Pyrularia pubera, Rhododendron calendulaceum, Rhododendron maximum, Smilax rotundifolia</i>, and <i>Vaccinium stamineum</i>. The herb layer can be very well-developed or patchy, and in more open examples can be graminoid-dominated. 
Accession Code: VB.CC.35676.CEGL007721
Plot-observations of this Community Concept: 0
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Perspective from: 17-Nov-2014 to: 01-May-2019
     
  • status: accepted
  • This Community's Level: association
  • This Community's Children: [none]
Names:   Common: Low-Elevation Blue Ridge Serpentine Woodland
  Translated: Virginia Pine - Pitch Pine - Post Oak / New Jersey-tea - Mountain Laurel / Waxyleaf Meadowrue Woodland
  Scientific: Pinus virginiana - Pinus rigida - Quercus stellata / Ceanothus americanus - Kalmia latifolia / Thalictrum revolutum Woodland
  Code: CEGL007721
  UID: ELEMENT_GLOBAL.2.687357 NatureServe ExplorerNatureServe Explorer logo