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Salix nigra - (Fraxinus pennsylvanica, Vachellia farnesiana) Floodplain Forest | NatureServe Biotics 2019
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Name: Salix nigra - (Fraxinus pennsylvanica, Vachellia farnesiana) Floodplain Forest
Reference: NatureServe Biotics 2019
Description: This community is described from seasonally to semipermanently flooded depressions in the Coastal Plain of Texas, but may occur elsewhere. It is dominated or codominated by <i>Salix nigra</i>. In the Columbia Bottomlands area of coastal Texas, this community occupies large (250-acre) shallow ponds (e.g., coalesced, sedimented old oxbows) in ancient river floodplains. The successional status of this vegetation is undetermined, but it is apparently long persisting. The overstory is dominated by <i>Fraxinus pennsylvanica</i> and <i>Salix nigra</i>. Though patchily distributed, the shrub layer is distinctive and dominated by <i>Cephalanthus occidentalis</i>. The herbaceous layer is characterized by <i>Phanopyrum gymnocarpon, Echinodorus</i> spp., <i>Polygonum</i> subgen. <i>Persicaria</i> spp., and <i>Sagittaria</i> spp. This association is also found fringing shallow, upland ponds along the Texas Coastal Bend. These examples may contain <i>Acacia farnesiana</i>. 
Accession Code: urn:lsid:vegbank.org:commConcept:36542-{673DB3B3-9212-4A3F-B5E8-65403FAB1AF7}
Plot-observations of this Community Concept: 0
      Party Perspective according to: NatureServe (organization)
Perspective from: 28-Jun-2001 to: ongoing
      Names:   UID: ELEMENT_GLOBAL.2.687468 NatureServe ExplorerNatureServe Explorer logo
  Code: CEGL008481
  Translated: Black Willow - (Green Ash, Sweet Acacia) Floodplain Forest
  Scientific: Salix nigra - (Fraxinus pennsylvanica, Vachellia farnesiana) Floodplain Forest
(convergence) and Synonyms:
(similar) Salix nigra - (Fraxinus pennsylvanica, Acacia farnesiana) Forest
(similar) CEGL008481
(similar) Salix nigra - (Fraxinus pennsylvanica, Acacia farnesiana) Forest