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Pinus echinata - Quercus alba / Viburnum (dentatum, acerifolium) Forest | Southeastern Ecology Working Gro...
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Name: Pinus echinata - Quercus alba / Viburnum (dentatum, acerifolium) Forest
Reference: Southeastern Ecology Working Gro...
Description: This mesic to dry-mesic forest of the West Gulf Coastal Plain is typified by an overstory of both <i>Pinus echinata</i> and <i>Quercus alba</i>. In high-quality examples, <i>Pinus taeda</i> is rare to absent as would have been expected in most areas of the presettlement landscape. <i>Quercus alba</i> may be more important than <i>Pinus echinata</i> in some examples, possibly those which have received the least amount of disturbance. These are normally closed forests above a well-developed subcanopy of mixed hardwoods. The density and composition of the shrub and herbaceous layers vary greatly depending upon a number of factors, including the range of moisture and potential nutrient conditions which are possible in stands assigned to this type. <i>Viburnum dentatum</i> and <i>Viburnum acerifolium</i> are listed as nominals suggesting the most mesic stands of this type; somewhat less mesic examples may lack these species. 
Accession Code: VB.CC.36028.CEGL003855
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: West Gulf Coastal Plain Shortleaf Pine - Oak Rich Mesic Forest
  Translated: Shortleaf Pine - White Oak / (Southern Arrow-wood, Mapleleaf Viburnum) Forest
  Scientific: Pinus echinata - Quercus alba / Viburnum (dentatum, acerifolium) Forest
  Code: CEGL003855
  UID: ELEMENT_GLOBAL.2.683346 NatureServe ExplorerNatureServe Explorer logo