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Kalmia latifolia - Gaylussacia baccata - Gaylussacia brachycera Cumberland Bedrock Heath Alliance | NatureServe Biotics 2019
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Name: Kalmia latifolia - Gaylussacia baccata - Gaylussacia brachycera Cumberland Bedrock Heath Alliance Reference: NatureServe Biotics 2019 Description: This heath shrub vegetation occurs associated with sandstone bedrock exposures in the Cumberland Mountains and Cumberland Plateau of eastern Kentucky, western Virginia and Tennessee at moderate elevations. The vegetation at these sites is low in stature. The tallest shrub is <i>Vaccinium arboreum</i> and it seldom is over 2 m in height. Scrubby short trees, usually <i>Quercus coccinea</i> and <i>Quercus falcata</i> and sometimes <i>Quercus velutina, Quercus marilandica</i>, or <i>Quercus stellata</i>, as well as <i>Pinus rigida, Pinus virginiana</i>, are seldom over 3 m tall. The trees are dispersed with small crowns and little cover. The dominant shrubs are <i>Kalmia latifolia</i> (low to the ground, around 0.6 m or less high), <i>Gaylussacia baccata</i>, and/or <i>Vaccinium pallidum</i>. On many but not all sites, <i>Gaylussacia brachycera</i> is the most dominant low-shrub species. This vegetation lacks many of the characteristic Southern Appalachian species found in Appalachian heath balds, such as <i>Leiophyllum buxifolium, Eubotrys recurva, Pieris floribunda, Rhododendron calendulaceum, Rhododendron carolinianum</i>, and <i>Rhododendron catawbiense</i>.  Accession Code: urn:lsid:vegbank.org:commConcept:38757-{CE6AA3E7-3CF1-4854-B809-2072048A2069} Plot-observations of this Community Concept: 0
	Party Perspective according to: NatureServe (organization) Perspective from: 26-Sep-2014 to: ongoing
	status: accepted Community's Parent: Schizachyrium scoparium - Danthonia sericea Acidic Glade & Barrens Group This Community's Level: Alliance This Community's Children: Show/Hide   Kalmia latifolia - Gaylussacia (baccata, brachycera) Cumberland Shrubland		Names:   UID: ELEMENT_GLOBAL.2.899595 NatureServe Explorer   Code: A3472   Translated: Mountain Laurel - Black Huckleberry - Box Huckleberry Cumberland Bedrock Heath Alliance   Common: Cumberland Bedrock Heath Shrubland   Scientific: Kalmia latifolia - Gaylussacia baccata - Gaylussacia brachycera Cumberland Bedrock Heath Alliance