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Quercus macrocarpa / Prunus virginiana - Symphoricarpos occidentalis Woodland | Midwestern Ecology Working Group...
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Name: Quercus macrocarpa / Prunus virginiana - Symphoricarpos occidentalis Woodland
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Description: This oak woodland type is found in the northwestern Great Plains and Black Hills of the United States. Stands occur along river valley slopes, valley bottoms, upland ravines, and butte or hill slopes. Soils are fertile and relatively mesic. This community is a woodland or forest dominated by <i>Quercus macrocarpa</i> and <i>Fraxinus pennsylvanica</i> in the tree layer, <i>Amelanchier alnifolia</i> and <i>Prunus virginiana</i> in the shrub layer, and <i>Carex sprengelii, Poa pratensis</i>, and <i>Galium boreale</i> in the herbaceous layer. Stands in the Black Hills often have <i>Symphoricarpos occidentalis</i> as a dominant shrub. Along the Missouri River, in North Dakota, ravine forests containing <i>Quercus macrocarpa</i> have rather closed canopies, resulting in a lack of a tall-shrub and sapling layer. These forests reach a height of about 23 m at maturity. 
Accession Code: VB.CC.36699.CEGL002138
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: Bur Oak / Chokecherry - Western Snowberry Woodland
  Scientific: Quercus macrocarpa / Prunus virginiana - Symphoricarpos occidentalis Woodland
  Code: CEGL002138
  Translated: Bur Oak / Chokecherry - Western Snowberry Woodland
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