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Nyssa aquatica Swamp Forest | NatureServe Biotics 2019
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Name: Nyssa aquatica Swamp Forest
Reference: NatureServe Biotics 2019
Description: This semipermanently flooded water tupelo swamp forest is found in the Coastal Plain from Virginia south to Florida, west to Texas, and north in the Mississippi delta region to Missouri, Illinois, and Kentucky. Stands occur on permanently saturated soils on low, wet flats and sloughs, swales and backswamps, and the association is more common on floodplains of brownwater, rather than blackwater, rivers. Both organic and mineral soils may be present. The vegetation is dominated by dense, and occasionally pure, stands of <i>Nyssa aquatica</i> but often in association with <i>Taxodium distichum</i> (never very abundant in this type), <i>Liquidambar styraciflua, Planera aquatica, Nyssa biflora, Gleditsia aquatica, Fraxinus profunda</i>, and <i>Cephalanthus occidentalis</i>. The herbaceous layer is conspicuously sparse, and density is wholly dependent upon the extent and duration of flooding. Where water is permanent, herbaceous plants rely on substrates found on rotting logs, stumps, terraces, and buttresses of trees. Subcanopy density and forest tree recruitment are poor due to fluctuating water levels. 
Accession Code: urn:lsid:vegbank.org:commConcept:31327-{AF5426B9-8149-43DB-942D-658E0F560AD2}
Plot-observations of this Community Concept: 5
      Party Perspective according to: NatureServe (organization)
Perspective from: 12-Aug-2004 to: ongoing
      Names:   UID: ELEMENT_GLOBAL.2.683253 NatureServe ExplorerNatureServe Explorer logo
  Code: CEGL002419
  Translated: Water Tupelo Swamp Forest
  Common: Water Tupelo Swamp Forest
  Scientific: Nyssa aquatica Swamp Forest
(convergence) and Synonyms:
(similar) CEGL002419
(similar) Nyssa aquatica Forest
(similar) Nyssa aquatica Forest