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Comm #13181
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CEGL001270 » more details
accession code: VB.CC.3856.CEGL001270
NOT CURRENTLY ACCEPTED
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EcoArt 2002 |
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Comm #13182
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CEGL001271 » more details
accession code: VB.CC.3857.CEGL001271
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Comm #13183
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CEGL001272 » more details
accession code: VB.CC.3858.CEGL001272
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Comm #13184
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Baccharis pilularis / Danthonia californica Shrubland » more details
accession code: VB.CC.19564.BACCHARISPILULA
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Comm #13185
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Cassiope mertensiana / Luetkea pectinata Dwarf-shrubland » more details
accession code: VB.CC.34025.CEGL001397
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Western Ecology Working Group of... |
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Comm #13186
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Empetrum nigrum Dwarf-shrubland » more details
accession code: VB.CC.33753.CEGL001399
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Comm #13187
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Quercus alba - Quercus velutina - Quercus stellata / Schizachyrium scoparium - Desmodium spp. Woodland » more details
accession code: VB.CC.35178.CEGL003722
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Southeastern Ecology Working Gro... |
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This is a fire-maintained woodland of the Piedmont of Virginia and South Carolina, occurring on soils derived from granitic rock. It may also persist in a slightly altered state due to particularly rigorous mowing regimes. Although the fire or mowing frequency is abnormally high at known sites (on Fort Pickett), this community may be quite similar to some presettlement Piedmont communities. Canopy dominants include <i>Quercus alba, Quercus velutina, Quercus stellata, Quercus falcata, Quercus coccinea, Carya alba, Carya glabra</i>, and <i>Liriodendron tulipifera</i>. The subcanopy may include <i>Cornus florida</i> and <i>Liquidambar styraciflua</i>, but can also be fairly open. Shrubs and woody vines include <i>Rhus copallinum, Rhus michauxii, Rhus glabra, Diospyros virginiana, Ulmus alata, Sassafras albidum, Vaccinium pallidum, Vaccinium stamineum, Hypericum hypericoides ssp. multicaule (= Hypericum stragulum), Toxicodendron pubescens, Vitis rotundifolia</i>. The herb layer is dominated by <i>Schizachyrium scoparium</i> or sometimes <i>Danthonia sericea</i>, and also includes <i>Desmodium laevigatum, Desmodium marilandicum, Desmodium nuttallii, Desmodium paniculatum, Desmodium perplexum, Desmodium ciliare, Eupatorium hyssopifolium, Eupatorium godfreyanum, Clitoria mariana, Eupatorium rotundifolium var. ovatum (= Eupatorium pubescens), Eupatorium sessilifolium, Eupatorium altissimum (= Eupatorium saltuense), Galactia regularis, Lespedeza procumbens, Dichanthelium dichotomum, Dichanthelium depauperatum, Solidago pinetorum, Solidago rugosa, Solidago nemoralis, Solidago erecta, Helianthus atrorubens, Coreopsis major, Liatris pilosa (= Liatris graminifolia), Andropogon ternarius, Tephrosia virginiana, Clitoria mariana</i>, and <i>Sorghastrum elliottii</i>. At Cowpens in South Carolina, historical accounts from the Revolutionary War (1781) all describe open fields in the area where this community now sits. Historic descriptions of upstate South Carolina uplands from as late as 1775 suggest woodlands and open areas covered with "grasses and the wild pea-vine, growing as high as a horse's back" were common. These historical accounts suggest that the remnants in South Carolina and Virginia may indeed approximate the vegetation of the upland areas of the Piedmont of 250 years ago. |
Comm #13188
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CEGL000862 » more details
accession code: VB.CC.3466.CEGL000862
NOT CURRENTLY ACCEPTED
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EcoArt 2002 |
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Comm #13189
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A.1950 » more details
accession code: VB.CC.1652.A1950
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EcoArt 2002 |
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Submontane pine forests with canopy dominated by ~Pinus caribaea var. caribaea$, on slatey sandstone, in western Cuba. |
Comm #13190
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Taxodium ascendens / Panicum hemitomon - Polygala cymosa Woodland » more details
accession code: VB.CC.35092.CEGL003733
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This community type occurs in seasonally flooded depressional wetlands, especially in clay-based Carolina bays. The canopy is open (to closed, or scattered) and dominated by <i>Taxodium ascendens</i>. The herbaceous stratum is normally dense, and extremely variable in dominance from site to site, spatially within each site, and from year to year (depending on hydrologic conditions). Typical dominants include <i>Panicum hemitomon, Panicum verrucosum, Panicum rigidulum var. combsii, Leersia hexandra, Rhynchospora filifolia, Rhynchospora perplexa, Rhynchospora careyana, Dichanthelium erectifolium, Dichanthelium wrightianum, Scleria georgiana, Scleria reticularis, Polygala cymosa, Boltonia asteroides, Eriocaulon compressum, Lachnanthes caroliana, Eupatorium leucolepis, Pluchea rosea, Euthamia caroliniana, Rhexia aristosa</i>, and <i>Coelorachis rugosa</i>. |