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Acacia farnesiana - (Prosopis glandulosa) Woodland | Southeastern Ecology Working Gro...
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Name: Acacia farnesiana - (Prosopis glandulosa) Woodland
Reference: Southeastern Ecology Working Gro...
Description: This woodland occurs over moderately to poorly drained soils along riparian corridors and upland depressions. It is currently described from the South Texas Plains and the Coastal Prairie but may range into other ecoregions. It is thought to be a natural disturbance type of these wetlands and may succeed to <i>Celtis laevigata</i>-dominated forest, especially on floodplains of major streams. Data are insufficient to separate it from an even more widespread anthropogenic disturbance community, with introduced species such as <i>Triadica sebifera (= Sapium sebiferum)</i> and <i>Rosa bracteata</i> associated on upper coast and <i>Parkinsonia aculeata</i> on the South Texas Plains. In wet areas, <i>Acacia farnesiana (= Acacia minuta)</i> often forms nearly pure stands or occurs as scattered individuals within a matrix of weedy grasses during the course of secondary succession. This woodland may grade into <i>Acacia rigidula</i> or <i>Acacia berlandieri</i> shrublands in southern Texas and <i>Schizachyrium scoparium</i> grasslands in the Coastal Prairie. One occurrence in southern Texas has <i>Acacia farnesiana, Prosopis glandulosa</i>, and <i>Celtis pallida</i> in the canopy, with a dense ground layer of <i>Spartina spartinae</i> along with <i>Wissadula periplocifolia, Sidastrum paniculatum</i>, and <i>Eleocharis montevidensis</i>. 
Accession Code: VB.CC.36385.CEGL002131
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:   Translated: Sweet Acacia - (Honey Mesquite) Woodland
  Scientific: Acacia farnesiana - (Prosopis glandulosa) Woodland
  Code: CEGL002131
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