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Taxodium distichum Nonriverine Swamp Forest Alliance | NatureServe Biotics 2019
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Name: Taxodium distichum Nonriverine Swamp Forest Alliance
Reference: NatureServe Biotics 2019
Description: This alliance includes seasonally (to semipermanently) flooded woodlands of lakeshores and other nonriverine depressions in the southeastern United States coastal plains dominated by <i>Taxodium distichum</i>. The shrub stratum in West Gulf Coastal Plain and Mississippi River Valley Alluvial Plain examples may contain <i>Acer rubrum, Cephalanthus occidentalis, Clethra alnifolia, Eubotrys racemosa</i>, and <i>Toxicodendron radicans ssp. radicans</i>. The herbaceous layer may contain <i>Cyperus odoratus, Cyperus polystachyos var. texensis, Echinochloa muricata, Eleocharis quadrangulata, Fimbristylis autumnalis, Fuirena pumila, Juncus repens, Lindernia dubia, Panicum dichotomiflorum, Panicum hemitomon, Panicum verrucosum</i>, and <i>Sclerolepis uniflora</i>. One association occurs in wet dune swales on North Carolina barrier islands. These are somewhat open forests with little to no understory or shrub layer present. The overstory is dominated by <i>Taxodium distichum</i> with lesser amounts of <i>Liquidambar styraciflua</i> and <i>Acer rubrum</i>. Woody vines are prominent as in many maritime types of the region. 
Accession Code: urn:lsid:vegbank.org:commConcept:38816-{4C1D98A2-55EE-4592-B45D-3EDC88CEB8D8}
Plot-observations of this Community Concept: 0
      Party Perspective according to: NatureServe (organization)
Perspective from: 08-Jan-2014 to: ongoing
      Names:   UID: ELEMENT_GLOBAL.2.899654 NatureServe ExplorerNatureServe Explorer logo
  Code: A3596
  Translated: Bald-cypress Nonriverine Swamp Forest Alliance
  Common: Bald-cypress Nonriverine Swamp Forest
  Scientific: Taxodium distichum Nonriverine Swamp Forest Alliance