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Pinus elliottii - Quercus nigra - Chamaecyparis thyoides / Cyrilla racemiflora - Vaccinium spp. Forest | Southeastern Ecology Working Gro...
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Name: Pinus elliottii - Quercus nigra - Chamaecyparis thyoides / Cyrilla racemiflora - Vaccinium spp. Forest
Reference: Southeastern Ecology Working Gro...
Description: This association is documented from a high sandy levee in the Styx River, Baldwin County, Alabama. It is a temporarily flooded levee forest occurring on a blackwater river. The dominant trees in the canopy are <i>Quercus nigra, Pinus elliottii, Taxodium ascendens</i>, and <i>Chamaecyparis thyoides</i>. The important subcanopy trees are <i>Quercus nigra, Ilex opaca</i>, and <i>Acer rubrum</i>. The shrub layer is dense and dominated by <i>Cyrilla racemiflora, Vaccinium elliottii, Vaccinium arboreum</i>, and <i>Serenoa repens</i>. The most abundant herbaceous species is <i>Mitchella repens</i>. 
Accession Code: VB.CC.35677.CEGL008556
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: East Gulf Coastal Plain Blackwater Levee Forest
  Translated: Slash Pine - Water Oak - Atlantic White-cedar / Swamp Titi - Blueberry species Forest
  Scientific: Pinus elliottii - Quercus nigra - Chamaecyparis thyoides / Cyrilla racemiflora - Vaccinium spp. Forest
  Code: CEGL008556
  UID: ELEMENT_GLOBAL.2.689079 NatureServe ExplorerNatureServe Explorer logo