Name:
Pinus virginiana - Pinus rigida - Quercus stellata / Ceanothus americanus / Thalictrum revolutum Woodland
Reference:
NatureServe Biotics 2019
Description:
This community includes pine-oak woodlands over serpentine, olivine, dunite, and other ultramafic rocks, at elevations from 550 to 950 m (1800-3100 feet), in the Southern Blue Ridge mountains of North Carolina and extreme northern Georgia. The open canopy is typically dominated by <i>Pinus virginiana, Pinus rigida, Pinus strobus, Quercus stellata, Quercus rubra</i>, and <i>Quercus falcata</i> (lower elevations only), with other species including <i>Sassafras albidum, Acer rubrum var. rubrum, Betula lenta, Liriodendron tulipifera, Nyssa sylvatica</i>, and <i>Oxydendrum arboreum</i>. Typical shrub and woody vine species are <i>Ceanothus americanus, Cornus florida, Kalmia latifolia, Castanea pumila, Gaultheria procumbens, Gaylussacia baccata, Lyonia ligustrina var. ligustrina, Parthenocissus quinquefolia, Pyrularia pubera, Rhododendron calendulaceum, Rhododendron maximum, Smilax rotundifolia</i>, and <i>Vaccinium stamineum</i>. The herb layer can be very well-developed or patchy, and in more open examples can be graminoid-dominated.
Accession Code:
urn:lsid:vegbank.org:commConcept:35910-{16E775D5-2EA6-4ABF-9636-DC00A4B361E2}
Plot-observations of this Community Concept:
3
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