Login | Datasets | Logout
 

View Community Concepts - Detail

(Quercus incana) / Schizachyrium scoparium - Bouteloua hirsuta - Dalea villosa var. grisea - Selaginella arenicola ssp. riddellii Xeric Sand Barrens Woodland | Southeastern Ecology Working Gro...
  click to update datacart
Name: (Quercus incana) / Schizachyrium scoparium - Bouteloua hirsuta - Dalea villosa var. grisea - Selaginella arenicola ssp. riddellii Xeric Sand Barrens Woodland
Reference: Southeastern Ecology Working Gro...
Description: This xeric herbaceous plant community occurs on hilltops and slopes over deep sands on the Upper West Gulf Coastal Plain of Arkansas. Overstory trees are few or nonexistent apparently due to either extreme edaphic conditions and/or extremely frequent fire histories. The herbaceous layer is thick and relatively short (2-3 feet tall). Bare soil is usually present, although often covered with <i>Selaginella arenicola ssp. riddellii</i> and <i>Nostoc commune</i>. The only overstory trees are scattered, dwarfed, frequently multi-stemmed (due to drought induced die-back) <i>Quercus incana</i>. Shrubs and woody vines are infrequent with scattered <i>Ceanothus americanus, Toxicodendron radicans</i>, and <i>Vitis aestivalis</i>. The herbaceous layer is dominated by grasses such as <i>Aristida lanosa, Bouteloua hirsuta, Paspalum setaceum</i>, and <i>Schizachyrium scoparium</i>. 
Accession Code: VB.CC.35950.CEGL007973
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: Upper West Gulf Coastal Plain Xeric Sand Barrens
  Translated: (Bluejack Oak) / Little Bluestem - Hairy Grama - Silky Prairie-clover - Riddell's Spikemoss Xeric Sand Barrens Woodland
  Scientific: (Quercus incana) / Schizachyrium scoparium - Bouteloua hirsuta - Dalea villosa var. grisea - Selaginella arenicola ssp. riddellii Xeric Sand Barrens Woodland
  Code: CEGL007973
  UID: ELEMENT_GLOBAL.2.683229 NatureServe ExplorerNatureServe Explorer logo