Name:
Cyrilla racemiflora - Ilex coriacea Wet Shrubland Alliance
Reference:
NatureServe Biotics 2019
Description:
This alliance consists of evergreen shrublands of the Southeastern Coastal Plain (Atlantic Coastal Plain, East Gulf Coastal Plain, and occasionally adjacent provinces). <i>Cyrilla racemiflora, Ilex coriacea</i>, and sometimes <i>Cliftonia monophylla</i> (within its range) are characteristic. Other characteristic shrubs (although some are absent in portions of the alliance's distribution) include <i>Alnus serrulata, Ilex glabra, Ilex myrtifolia, Lyonia lucida, Morella caroliniensis, Morella cerifera, Morella inodora, Persea palustris, Smilax laurifolia, Toxicodendron vernix</i>, and <i>Vaccinium formosum</i>. In some situations, stunted <i>Magnolia virginiana</i> may be a component; emergent <i>Pinus elliottii var. elliottii, Pinus serotina</i>, and/or <i>Taxodium ascendens</i> may be present. Communities in this alliance occur in depressions, on poorly drained flats (such as pocosins) in the Outer Coastal Plain, along lake- or pondshores, where the water table is maintained in at least a seasonally saturated condition by the waterbody, and in seepages in rolling hill landscapes of the coastal plain (often associated with and adjacent to herbaceous seepage bogs), and in saturated wetlands (such as baygalls or bayheads) which may be sloping or flat and occur near coastal plain rivers, streams, and streamheads. Some types occur over peats or other sapric soil types. Occurrences expand or contract in size under different fire regimes.
Accession Code:
urn:lsid:vegbank.org:commConcept:38105-{4705791A-46B4-4EC5-BC9C-5B2EF78C8CB4}
Plot-observations of this Community Concept:
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