Name:
Arundinaria gigantea Wet Canebrake Alliance
Reference:
NatureServe Biotics 2019
Description:
This alliance encompasses vegetation of various wet to moist floodplain wetlands, occurring on alluvial or loess substrates, including streamside flats and bottomlands, dominated by <i>Arundinaria gigantea</i>, without an overstory, or with widely scattered trees. These are frequently monospecific or near-monospecific stands. Canebrakes are successional communities and may have originated following abandonment of aboriginal agricultural fields or catastrophic disturbances such as windstorms. They are thought to have been maintained in part by fires set by Native Americans. Evidence suggests that this alliance was widespread historically, covering large areas of many floodplains and streamsides in the Southeastern Coastal Plain from North Carolina to Texas, the Mississippi River Alluvial Plain north to Illinois and Missouri, Interior Highlands, Interior Low Plateau, Southern Blue Ridge, Cumberland Mountains, and Western Allegheny Plateau of the southeastern United States. It now occupies very little of its former acreage, and high-quality examples are extremely rare. It was also reported historically along the Red and Mississippi rivers in Louisiana, Coastal Prairie rivers in Texas, and the Black, Washita, Arkansas, Pearl, Tombigbee, Yazoo, Savannah, and St. Mary's rivers. Large, extant canebrakes still exist and have been documented from the Ocmulgee Basin, south of Macon, Georgia.
Accession Code:
urn:lsid:vegbank.org:commConcept:38103-{BABA1B7A-6AC5-45C6-B6D8-5EB298AD8EDF}
Plot-observations of this Community Concept:
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