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Piedmont Acidic Cliff Vegetation | NatureServe Biotics 2019
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Name: Piedmont Acidic Cliff Vegetation
Reference: NatureServe Biotics 2019
Description: This sparsely vegetated cliff association occurs in the Piedmont of the southeastern United States. Examples are found on steep to vertical outcrops of acidic substrates, in topographically low settings such as river bluffs that are not subject to flood scouring. Substrates may include various felsic igneous or metamorphic rocks, acidic saprolite, and occasionally unconsolidated acidic sediments. Vegetation is low in cover, and is confined to lichens and plants growing on bare rock and to sparse herbs, shrubs, and trees rooted in local pockets of deeper soil. The flora is a mix that usually includes drought-tolerant, shade-intolerant species, species shared with surrounding forests, and sometimes local occurrences of wetland species associated with small seepage zones. Most of the species are acid-tolerant, and more basophilic species are largely absent. Lichens and bryophytes may be abundant or scarce. 
Accession Code: urn:lsid:vegbank.org:commConcept:32828-{CA1939FB-1CC7-4B54-A4AA-35CA0B5285F4}
Plot-observations of this Community Concept: 2
      Party Perspective according to: NatureServe (organization)
Perspective from: 09-Jul-2009 to: ongoing
      Names:   UID: ELEMENT_GLOBAL.2.688372 NatureServe ExplorerNatureServe Explorer logo
  Code: CEGL003979
  Translated: Piedmont Acidic Cliff Vegetation
  Common: Piedmont Cliff (Acidic Type)
  Scientific: Piedmont Acidic Cliff Vegetation
(convergence) and Synonyms:
(similar) Piedmont Acidic Cliff Sparse Vegetation
(similar) Piedmont Acidic Cliff Sparse Vegetation