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Pinus echinata - Quercus stellata - Quercus montana / Danthonia spicata Forest | NatureServe Biotics 2019
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Name: Pinus echinata - Quercus stellata - Quercus montana / Danthonia spicata Forest
Reference: NatureServe Biotics 2019
Description: This forest, dominated by <i>Pinus echinata, Quercus stellata, Quercus montana</i>, and <i>Carya glabra</i>, is found on broad ridges in the southern end of the Appalachian Mountains in northeastern Alabama and northwestern Georgia. It also extends into the Cumberland Plateau of Kentucky and presumably Tennessee. <i>Vaccinium pallidum</i> is the dominant short shrub; the herbaceous stratum typically contains <i>Piptochaetium avenaceum</i> (to the south), and/or <i>Danthonia spicata</i> (to the north). 
Accession Code: urn:lsid:vegbank.org:commConcept:35707-{4B5D3CF8-4A9F-4BCB-9F41-100F0379E1CE}
Plot-observations of this Community Concept: 3
      Party Perspective according to: NatureServe (organization)
Perspective from: 16-May-2005 to: ongoing
      Names:   UID: ELEMENT_GLOBAL.2.685180 NatureServe ExplorerNatureServe Explorer logo
  Code: CEGL007500
  Translated: Shortleaf Pine - Post Oak - Chestnut Oak / Poverty Oatgrass Forest
  Common: Appalachian Shortleaf Pine - Xeric Oak Forest
  Scientific: Pinus echinata - Quercus stellata - Quercus montana / Danthonia spicata Forest
(convergence) and Synonyms:
(similar) Pinus echinata - Quercus stellata - Quercus prinus - Carya glabra / (Danthonia spicata, Piptochaetium avenaceum) Forest
(similar) CEGL007500
(similar) Pinus echinata - Quercus stellata - Quercus prinus - Carya glabra / (Danthonia spicata, Piptochaetium avenaceum) Forest