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Quercus macrocarpa - Quercus palustris - Quercus bicolor / Calamagrostis canadensis Wooded Herbaceous Vegetation | Midwestern Ecology Working Group...
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Name: Quercus macrocarpa - Quercus palustris - Quercus bicolor / Calamagrostis canadensis Wooded Herbaceous Vegetation
Reference: Midwestern Ecology Working Group...
Description: This bur oak - mixed oak savanna or openings community occurs on lakeplains of the southern Great Lakes in the United States and Canada. Stands occur on sandy or, less commonly, silty/clayey glacial lakeplains with seasonally high water tables. Soils are mildly alkaline very fine sandy loams or loamy very fine sands, sometimes sands. These soils have moderate water-retaining capacity. Within glacial lakeplains there are two prominent forms of savanna communities. In both types, <i>Quercus</i> spp. dominate the tree canopy layer and grasses and sedges make up the majority of the ground layer. The more mesic to dry-mesic type occurs on droughty beach ridges and is typically dominated by <i>Quercus velutina</i> and <i>Quercus alba</i>. The wet-mesic type described here is found on flat, poorly drained areas. It is dominated by <i>Quercus macrocarpa, Quercus palustris</i>, and <i>Quercus bicolor</i> with some <i>Acer rubrum</i> and a lakeplain wet prairie ground layer component. In Michigan the herbaceous species present may include <i>Andropogon gerardii, Carex</i> spp., <i>Schizachyrium scoparium</i>, and <i>Sorghastrum nutans</i>. The canopy of this community can be very open. 
Accession Code: VB.CC.36807.CEGL005120
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: Lakeplain Wet-Mesic Oak Opening
  Scientific: Quercus macrocarpa - Quercus palustris - Quercus bicolor / Calamagrostis canadensis Wooded Herbaceous Vegetation
  Translated: Bur Oak - Pin Oak - Swamp White Oak / Bluejoint Wooded Herbaceous Vegetation
  Code: CEGL005120
  UID: ELEMENT_GLOBAL.2.688205 NatureServe ExplorerNatureServe Explorer logo