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A.1014 | EcoArt 2002
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Name: A.1014
Reference: EcoArt 2002
Description: This alliance includes non-alluvial, palustrine vegetation strongly dominated by ~Alnus serrulata$, and often, but not always, with substantial ~Sphagnum$ cover. Occurrences of this alliance can have small to moderately large herbaceous openings, as well, but where open herbaceous patches are large and well-developed, communities in V.A.5.N.m should be considered. Communities in this alliance are saturated shrublands with ~Alnus serrulata$ as a strong dominant component, but other shrub species may be present. This alliance is found throughout the Southeast, but is currently defined only for the Cumberland Plateau, Ridge and Valley, and the Piedmont. Associations in this alliance lack the montane floristics of associations in the III.C.2.N.e ~~Alnus serrulata - Salix sericea - Rhododendron (catawbiense, maximum)$ Saturated Shrubland Alliance (A.1880)$$. Vegetation at Fort Benning, Georgia (East Gulf Coastal Plain - Upper East Gulf Coastal Plain transition region), on the upper ends of beaver ponds which are inclusions in a ~Nyssa biflora$ saturated forest apparently belong here. 
Accession Code: VB.CC.786.A1014
Plot-observations of this Community Concept: 0
      Party Perspective according to: NatureServe (organization)
Perspective from: 26-Nov-1997 to: 17-Mar-2005
     
  • status: accepted
  • Community's Parent: III.B.2.N.g
  • This Community's Level: Alliance
  • This Community's Children: [none]
Names:   Scientific: ALNUS SERRULATA SATURATED SHRUBLAND ALLIANCE
  Code: A.1014
  Common: Smooth Alder Saturated Shrubland Alliance
(convergence) and Synonyms:
(undetermined) Alnus serrulata Saturated Shrubland Alliance