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Quercus stellata - (Pinus echinata) / Schizachyrium scoparium - Echinacea laevigata - Oligoneuron album Woodland | NatureServe Biotics 2019
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Name: Quercus stellata - (Pinus echinata) / Schizachyrium scoparium - Echinacea laevigata - Oligoneuron album Woodland
Reference: NatureServe Biotics 2019
Description: This community consists of one of two prairie-like woodlands associated with diabase in the Carolina Piedmont, representing the north-central North Carolina Piedmont type. Examples often have a canopy dominated by <i>Quercus stellata</i> and <i>Pinus echinata</i> (often some <i>Pinus taeda</i> as well because of fire suppression), a <i>Juniperus virginiana var. virginiana</i> understory (reduced or eliminated by fire), and grass/forb-dominated openings with numerous calciphilic prairie components dominating. Open conditions are maintained to some degree by shallow soils, shrink-swell clays, and perhaps by magnesium toxicity, but disturbance by fire is required for long-term persistence. Other characteristic species include <i>Acer floridanum, Sorghastrum nutans, Baptisia australis var. aberrans, Silphium terebinthinaceum, Oligoneuron album, Oligoneuron rigidum, Symphyotrichum parviceps, Eryngium yuccifolium var. yuccifolium, Hypericum virgatum, Marshallia legrandii, Blephilia ciliata, Salvia urticifolia, Thaspium barbinode</i>, and <i>Packera anonyma</i>. The large number of unique species (long-distance disjuncts and an endemic) suggest that recognition of this community as unique is warranted, though it is clearly related to diabase-influenced vegetation of both Virginia and the southern Carolina Piedmont. 
Accession Code: urn:lsid:vegbank.org:commConcept:32431-{182D239C-ACB3-4EE8-89A8-E10686F8EFB8}
Plot-observations of this Community Concept: 8
      Party Perspective according to: NatureServe (organization)
Perspective from: 31-Jan-2003 to: ongoing
      Names:   UID: ELEMENT_GLOBAL.2.689466 NatureServe ExplorerNatureServe Explorer logo
  Code: CEGL003558
  Translated: Post Oak - (Shortleaf Pine) / Little Bluestem - Smooth Purple Coneflower - Prairie Goldenrod Woodland
  Common: Piedmont Basic Hardpan Woodland (Northern Type)
  Scientific: Quercus stellata - (Pinus echinata) / Schizachyrium scoparium - Echinacea laevigata - Oligoneuron album Woodland
(convergence) and Synonyms:
(similar) CEGL003558
(similar) Quercus stellata - (Pinus echinata) / Schizachyrium scoparium - Echinacea laevigata - Oligoneuron album Woodland
(similar) Quercus stellata - (Pinus echinata) / Schizachyrium scoparium - Echinacea laevigata - Oligoneuron album Woodland