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Fraxinus pennsylvanica - (Carya aquatica) / Forestiera acuminata / Phanopyrum gymnocarpon Depression Forest | Southeastern Ecology Working Gro...
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Name: Fraxinus pennsylvanica - (Carya aquatica) / Forestiera acuminata / Phanopyrum gymnocarpon Depression Forest Reference: Southeastern Ecology Working Gro... Description: This community occupies shallow depressions on Vertisols that exhibit strong gilgai microtopography. The soils formed over Holocene alluvium and are located in the present-day drainage basins of Caney Creek and the Colorado, San Bernard, and Brazos rivers in the Outer Coastal Plain of Texas. It also occurs as a fringe around larger depressions in the same area. The dominant overstory species is <i>Fraxinus pennsylvanica</i> which forms a slightly open canopy; <i>Carya aquatica</i> is usually present and may codominate the overstory in some occurrences. The sparse to locally dense understory provides an open aspect, with understory dominants including <i>Sabal minor, Forestiera acuminata</i> and <i>Cephalanthus occidentalis</i>. Ground cover vegetation may be banded along moisture and microtopographic contours; it is generally dense and continuous, but the deepest parts can be devoid of vegetation during dry seasons, exposing bare, cracked, fine-textured soil. It depends on seasonal inundation due to local rainfall events to maintain moist habitat conditions. <i>Phanopyrum gymnocarpon</i> is the visual dominant of the ground cover. Other ground cover components include <i>Hygrophila lacustris, Carex lupuliformis, Carex crus-corvi, Echinodorus cordifolius, Berchemia scandens, Polygonum virginianum, Rhynchospora corniculata, Saururus cernuus</i>, and <i>Mikania scandens</i>. It is a conspicuous part of forest vegetation in the Columbia Bottomlands area of Brazoria, Fort Bend and Wharton counties, Texas, where it occurs intermixed with ~<i>Quercus virginiana / Ilex vomitoria - Sabal minor / Carex cherokeensis - Malvaviscus arboreus</i> var. <i>drummondii</i> Forest (CEGL007830)$$ and ~<i>Ulmus crassifolia - Carya illinoinensis - Celtis laevigata / Chasmanthium sessiliflorum - Carex cherokeensis</i> Forest (CEGL002388)$$.  Accession Code: VB.CC.35820.CEGL007926 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: Columbia Bottomlands Ash Flat   UID: ELEMENT_GLOBAL.2.689129 NatureServe Explorer   Translated: Green Ash - (Water Hickory) / Eastern Swamp-privet / Savanna Panicgrass Depression Forest   Scientific: Fraxinus pennsylvanica - (Carya aquatica) / Forestiera acuminata / Phanopyrum gymnocarpon Depression Forest   Code: CEGL007926