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Morella cerifera - Rosa palustris / Thelypteris palustris var. pubescens Tidal Shrubland | NatureServe Biotics 2019
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Name: Morella cerifera - Rosa palustris / Thelypteris palustris var. pubescens Tidal Shrubland
Reference: NatureServe Biotics 2019
Description: This shrub community occurs along the Atlantic coast of Delaware, Maryland, Virginia and North Carolina in ecotonal sites between tidal marshes and tidal swamps in fresh to oligohaline portions of coastal rivers and embayments. It occupies soupy peats. It is a natural community, but likely has a long-term and complicated successional relationship with other (primarily marsh) communities in the landscape in which it occurs, related to hydrology and fire. <i>Morella cerifera</i> and <i>Rosa palustris</i> are the characteristic dominant species, each attaining 10-25% cover. Also constant but attaining slightly less cover are species such as <i>Acer rubrum</i> and <i>Toxicodendron radicans ssp. radicans</i>. Other woody species include <i>Persea palustris, Magnolia virginiana, Salix caroliniana, Vaccinium formosum, Smilax walteri</i>, and saplings of <i>Fraxinus profunda, Nyssa biflora, Acer rubrum, Pinus taeda, Taxodium distichum</i>, and <i>Liquidambar styraciflua</i>. Herbaceous composition is diverse and varied, with many species "recruited" from adjacent marshes and swamps. <i>Thelypteris palustris var. pubescens</i> is highly characteristic and appears to reach its nodal distribution in this landscape in this community. Other important species can include <i>Osmunda regalis var. spectabilis, Leersia oryzoides, Hibiscus moscheutos, Polygonum arifolium</i>, and <i>Mikania scandens</i>. <i>Murdannia keisak</i> is an aggressive alien weed. 
Accession Code: urn:lsid:vegbank.org:commConcept:33439-{C03C5B4B-C0C6-4EB7-AC1D-38152D954F5A}
Plot-observations of this Community Concept: 25
      Party Perspective according to: NatureServe (organization)
Perspective from: 04-Feb-2009 to: ongoing
      Names:   UID: ELEMENT_GLOBAL.2.686863 NatureServe ExplorerNatureServe Explorer logo
  Code: CEGL004656
  Translated: Wax-myrtle - Swamp Rose / Eastern Marsh Fern Tidal Shrubland
  Common: Wind-Tidal Wax-myrtle - Rose Thicket
  Scientific: Morella cerifera - Rosa palustris / Thelypteris palustris var. pubescens Tidal Shrubland
(convergence) and Synonyms:
(similar) CEGL004656
(similar) Morella cerifera - Rosa palustris / Thelypteris palustris var. pubescens Shrubland
(similar) Morella cerifera - Rosa palustris / Thelypteris palustris var. pubescens Shrubland