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Quercus stellata / Schizachyrium scoparium - Andropogon gerardii - Pycnanthemum tenuifolium - Packera paupercula Wooded Grassland | NatureServe Biotics 2019
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Name: Quercus stellata / Schizachyrium scoparium - Andropogon gerardii - Pycnanthemum tenuifolium - Packera paupercula Wooded Grassland Reference: NatureServe Biotics 2019 Description: This association is restricted to Virginia's Blue Ridge. It occurs over amphibolite, which weathers to produce high base status soils. This community is known only from Buffalo Mountain in the southern Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia. Although floristically related to other more common types of glades, this is a distinct type that reflects the unusual environmental conditions of the small glades on amphibole gneiss bedrock of Buffalo Mountain. There are several small openings with this type of glade set within a matrix of oak-dominated vegetation. Typical stands of this association contain <i>Quercus stellata</i> and <i>Juniperus virginiana var. virginiana</i> in the open to sparse canopy, with <i>Schizachyrium scoparium</i> as a dominant grass and <i>Castilleja coccinea</i> as a characteristic herb.  Accession Code: urn:lsid:vegbank.org:commConcept:34862-{8158BE96-26CB-4E8B-B281-99CD04DCADFE} Plot-observations of this Community Concept: 8
	Party Perspective according to: NatureServe (organization) Perspective from: 21-May-2002 to: ongoing
	status: accepted Community's Parent: Fraxinus americana - Quercus stellata / Carex pensylvanica Appalachian Mafic-Circumneutral Scrub Alliance This Community's Level: Association This Community's Children: [none]		Names:   UID: ELEMENT_GLOBAL.2.685100 NatureServe Explorer   Code: CEGL006215   Translated: Post Oak / Little Bluestem - Big Bluestem - Narrowleaf Mountainmint - Balsam Groundsel Wooded Grassland   Common: Southern Blue Ridge Mafic Barrens   Scientific: Quercus stellata / Schizachyrium scoparium - Andropogon gerardii - Pycnanthemum tenuifolium - Packera paupercula Wooded Grassland (convergence) and Synonyms: (similar) CEGL006215 (similar) Quercus stellata / Schizachyrium scoparium - Sorghastrum nutans - Pycnanthemum tenuifolium - Packera paupercula Wooded Herbaceous Vegetation (similar) Quercus stellata / Schizachyrium scoparium - Sorghastrum nutans - Pycnanthemum tenuifolium - Packera paupercula Wooded Herbaceous Vegetation