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Tilia americana - Fraxinus americana / Acer pensylvanicum - Ostrya virginiana / Parthenocissus quinquefolia - Impatiens pallida Woodland | Fleming, G. P., and P. P. Coulli...
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Name: Tilia americana - Fraxinus americana / Acer pensylvanicum - Ostrya virginiana / Parthenocissus quinquefolia - Impatiens pallida Woodland
Reference: Fleming, G. P., and P. P. Coulli...
Description: This community type occurs throughout the northern Blue Ridge in Virginia, Maryland, and West Virginia, and more locally in the western Virginia Ridge and Valley region. Sites include steep, boulder and stone slides below cliffs; boulder-filled slope concavities and hollow-heads; and other very rocky, submesic to mesic habitats at middle elevations between 760 and 1030 m (2500-3400 feet). This is an open to closed, mixed hardwood forest, with tall, well-formed trees. Because of somewhat unstable substrates and occasional exposure to severe wind and ice storms, downfalls and crown damage may be frequent in some stands. <i>Tilia americana</i> (including both <i>var. americana</i> and <i>var. heterophylla</i>), <i>Fraxinus americana</i>, and <i>Quercus rubra</i> are the most abundant, variably dominant or codominant canopy trees. <i>Carya cordiformis, Robinia pseudoacacia</i>, and <i>Carya ovata</i> are minor but constant canopy associates. Understory layers tend to be open, with <i>Acer pensylvanicum, Ostrya virginiana, Sambucus racemosa (= Sambucus pubens)</i>, and <i>Ribes rotundifolium</i> the most characteristic species. The usually patchy herb layer varies greatly in richness and density with substrate conditions. 
Accession Code: VB.CC.37159.CEGL008528
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: Central Appalachian Basic Boulderfield Forest (Montane Basswood - White Ash Type)
  Translated: American Basswood - White Ash / Striped Maple - Hophornbeam / Virginia Creeper - Pale Touch-me-not Woodland
  Scientific: Tilia americana - Fraxinus americana / Acer pensylvanicum - Ostrya virginiana / Parthenocissus quinquefolia - Impatiens pallida Woodland
  Code: CEGL008528
  UID: ELEMENT_GLOBAL.2.685669 NatureServe ExplorerNatureServe Explorer logo