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Betula nigra - Platanus occidentalis / Alnus serrulata / Boehmeria cylindrica Forest | Southeastern Ecology Working Gro...
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Name: Betula nigra - Platanus occidentalis / Alnus serrulata / Boehmeria cylindrica Forest
Reference: Southeastern Ecology Working Gro...
Description: This riverfront forest, dominated by <i>Betula nigra</i> and <i>Platanus occidentalis</i>, occurs primarily on levees along small rivers and streams. It also is found along flowages of larger rivers ("artificial oxbows"). It ranges from North Carolina to southern Georgia in the Piedmont and Coastal Plain (and into the southern and lower-elevation parts of the Southern Blue Ridge, excluding the highest elevations of the Mountains) and west to eastern Texas, and the Cumberland Plateau of Tennessee and possibly northern Alabama. No effort has been made to subdivide this type into northern and southern, or Coastal Plain and Interior variants, although there are undoubtedly some floristic differences between these extremes, at least in the lower strata. <i>Betula nigra</i> contributes at least 50%, and often more, of the tree density of stands of this community. <i>Platanus occidentalis</i> may be codominant, or at least prominent, with large individuals overtopping the <i>Betula</i>, which tends to have a greater number of stems, but <i>Platanus occidentalis</i> may be more conspicuous because of its larger size. Other canopy associates include <i>Liriodendron tulipifera, Liquidambar styraciflua, Acer rubrum, Acer negundo, Ulmus americana, Ulmus rubra, Celtis</i> spp., and <i>Quercus</i> spp. 
Accession Code: VB.CC.36234.CEGL007312
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: River Birch Levee Forest
  Translated: River Birch - American Sycamore / Hazel Alder / Small-spike False Nettle Forest
  Scientific: Betula nigra - Platanus occidentalis / Alnus serrulata / Boehmeria cylindrica Forest
  Code: CEGL007312
  UID: ELEMENT_GLOBAL.2.685343 NatureServe ExplorerNatureServe Explorer logo