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Gordonia lasianthus - Magnolia virginiana - Persea palustris / Sphagnum spp. Forest | Southeastern Ecology Working Gro...
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Name: Gordonia lasianthus - Magnolia virginiana - Persea palustris / Sphagnum spp. Forest
Reference: Southeastern Ecology Working Gro...
Description: These forests occur in saturated, peat-filled seepage depressions usually located at the base of sandy slopes but also at the edges of floodplains or other flat areas with high water tables. The southern limit of this community is just north of Lake Okeechobee, Florida; the community extends northward through Georgia and South Carolina to North Carolina, where <i>Gordonia lasianthus</i> reaches the limit of its distribution. The closed, broad-leaved evergreen canopy is composed of <i>Magnolia virginiana, Persea palustris</i>, and <i>Gordonia lasianthus</i>. A patchy understory of shrubs <i>Cyrilla racemiflora, Clethra alnifolia, Itea virginica, Lyonia lucida</i>, and <i>Ilex glabra</i> and vines <i>Smilax laurifolia, Smilax glauca</i>, and <i>Vitis rotundifolia</i> occurs with an abundant to sparse layer of ferns <i>Woodwardia areolata</i> and <i>Osmunda cinnamomea</i>. <i>Sphagnum</i> mats are interlaced with exposed tree roots. In northeastern Florida, at the Timucuan Ecological and Historic Preserve, dead and dying <i>Persea palustris</i> indicate that these loblolly-bay forests are being affected by laurel wilt, which is caused by a vascular wilt fungus that is transmitted to species in the Lauraceae family via. the non-native redbay ambrosia beetle (<i>Xyleborus glabratus</i>). 
Accession Code: VB.CC.36165.CEGL007044
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: Loblolly-bay Forest
  Translated: Loblolly-bay - Sweetbay - Swamp Bay / Peatmoss species Forest
  Scientific: Gordonia lasianthus - Magnolia virginiana - Persea palustris / Sphagnum spp. Forest
  Code: CEGL007044
  UID: ELEMENT_GLOBAL.2.684012 NatureServe ExplorerNatureServe Explorer logo