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Quercus alba - Nyssa sylvatica Wet Depression Forest Alliance | NatureServe Biotics 2019
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Name: Quercus alba - Nyssa sylvatica Wet Depression Forest Alliance
Reference: NatureServe Biotics 2019
Description: This alliance includes depressional wetlands with an open to nearly closed canopy dominated by various mixtures of <i>Quercus alba, Nyssa sylvatica</i>, and sometimes other trees. In upland depressions on sandstone on ridgetops in the Cumberland Plateau of Alabama, <i>Quercus alba</i> and <i>Nyssa sylvatica</i> form an open canopy. Other canopy species are <i>Carya glabra</i> and <i>Quercus falcata</i>. Other woody species include <i>Acer rubrum var. rubrum, Diospyros virginiana</i>, and <i>Pinus taeda</i>, In Virginia, <i>Malus coronaria</i> and <i>Nyssa sylvatica</i> dominate the very open understory and shrub layers. Typically, flooding is for several months in the late winter into early spring. There are documented examples in Alabama, Virginia, and Kentucky. 
Accession Code: urn:lsid:vegbank.org:commConcept:38292-{E5E2B2D3-853A-4F2E-8E36-06A7013EE8CE}
Plot-observations of this Community Concept: 0
      Party Perspective according to: NatureServe (organization)
Perspective from: 08-Jan-2014 to: ongoing
      Names:   UID: ELEMENT_GLOBAL.2.899187 NatureServe ExplorerNatureServe Explorer logo
  Code: A1996
  Translated: White Oak - Blackgum Wet Depression Forest Alliance
  Common: White Oak Wet Depression & Pond Forest
  Scientific: Quercus alba - Nyssa sylvatica Wet Depression Forest Alliance
(convergence) and Synonyms:
(similar) A.1996
(similar) Quercus alba - (Nyssa sylvatica) Seasonally Flooded Forest Alliance