Name:
Ulmus americana - Ulmus crassifolia - Celtis laevigata West Gulf Coastal Plain Floodplain Forest Alliance
Reference:
NatureServe Biotics 2019
Description:
This alliance unifies a suite of primarily temporarily flooded bottomland and floodplain forests from the West Gulf Coastal Plain of Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, and Texas as well as from adjacent ecoregions (Mississippi River Alluvial Plain, peripherally the East Gulf Coastal Plain). All of these associations contain <i>Ulmus americana</i> and/or <i>Ulmus crassifolia</i> as dominants or codominants. <i>Ulmus crassifolia</i> is found in the Mississippi River Alluvial Plain and the West Gulf Coastal Plain, ranging west into central Texas, but is occasionally found east of the Mississippi River. An additional frequent component of these forests is <i>Celtis laevigata</i>. Other species which may be found in examples of this alliance include <i>Carya illinoinensis, Diospyros virginiana, Fraxinus pennsylvanica, Gleditsia triacanthos, Maclura pomifera, Populus heterophylla, Quercus sinuata var. sinuata, Quercus texana</i>, and <i>Ulmus rubra</i>. Some understory and ground layer components include <i>Bidens aristosa, Carex cherokeensis, Carex digitalis, Geum canadense, Glyceria striata, Leersia virginica, Sabal minor</i>, and <i>Trepocarpus aethusae</i>.
Accession Code:
urn:lsid:vegbank.org:commConcept:38923-{D4461EFF-59C8-4227-9244-43048F926055}
Plot-observations of this Community Concept:
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