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CEGL007040 Sabal palmetto - Quercus virginiana Swamp Forest
Type Concept Sentence: No Data Available
Common (Translated Scientific) Name: Cabbage Palmetto - Live Oak Swamp Forest
Colloquial Name: Palmetto - Live Oak Hydric Hammock
Hierarchy Level: Association
Type Concept: These wet palmetto - live oak forests occur throughout central and southern Florida, and are sometimes known as low hammocks or hydric hammocks. At increasingly smaller scales, this or related vegetation range as far north as southern North Carolina. Sabal palmetto and Quercus virginiana generally share canopy dominance, and few other trees except Juniperus virginiana var. silicicola are commonly encountered. Sabal palmetto or the other two primary canopy species may strongly dominate local patches. Morella cerifera is a typical shrub or small tree. Some related vegetation includes more diverse-canopied hydric hammocks, occurring in more inland situations (or at least away from immediate coastal influence) and with enough admixture of deciduous and tardily deciduous trees to be placed in a mixed forest subclass. This vegetation generally occurs on sands, shell hash, or limestone, with either a substantial calcareous component or influence (past or present) of brackish water. Occurrences in North Carolina and South Carolina are of small size and are marginally attributable to this alliance, where they occur only as small inclusions in, or adjacent to, upland maritime forests.
Diagnostic Characteristics: No Data Available
Rationale for Nominal Species or Physiognomic Features: No Data Available
Classification Comments: This association needs to be compared to other types in ~Sabal palmetto - Quercus virginiana - Magnolia virginiana Swamp Forest Alliance (A3350)$$. Some related vegetation includes more diverse-canopied hydric hammocks, occurring in more inland situations (or at least away from immediate coastal influence) and with enough admixture of deciduous and tardily deciduous trees to be placed in a mixed forest subclass.
Similar NVC Types: No Data Available
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Physiognomy and Structure: No Data Available
Floristics: Sabal palmetto and Quercus virginiana generally share canopy dominance, and few other trees except Juniperus virginiana var. silicicola are commonly encountered. Sabal palmetto or the other two primary canopy species (Quercus virginiana or Juniperus virginiana var. silicicola) may strongly dominate local patches. Morella cerifera is a typical shrub or small tree. Sapindus saponaria can be a shrub and subcanopy codominant on limestone in the Florida peninsula. An example attributed to this type on Ocala National Forest (Rocky Point) was dominated by Quercus virginiana and Sabal palmetto with some Carya aquatica and Celtis laevigata (NatureServe Ecology unpubl. data). Sabal palmetto and Sapindus saponaria are important in the subcanopy and shrub strata; other shrubs present are Sabal minor, Morus rubra, Callicarpa americana, Sageretia minutiflora, Sideroxylon reclinatum, Juniperus virginiana var. silicicola, and Persea palustris. Herbs are dominated by Oplismenus hirtellus ssp. setarius. Vines are common, including Campsis radicans, Parthenocissus quinquefolia, Smilax bona-nox, Toxicodendron radicans, Smilax auriculata, Cocculus carolinus, Matelea gonocarpos, and Gelsemium sempervirens. Epiphytes are dominated by Tillandsia usneoides, with Tillandsia recurvata and Pleopeltis polypodioides ssp. michauxiana (= Polypodium polypodioides var. michauxianum).
Dynamics: These forests are subject to flooding associated with hurricanes.
Environmental Description: This vegetation generally occurs on sands, shell hash, or limestone, with either a substantial calcareous component or influence (past or present) of brackish water.
Geographic Range: These wet palmetto - live oak forests occur throughout central and southern Florida; at increasingly smaller scales, this or related vegetation range as far north as southern North Carolina.
Nations: US
States/Provinces: FL, GA, NC, SC
Plot Analysis Summary:
http://vegbank.org/natureserve/ELEMENT_GLOBAL.2.686345
Confidence Level: Moderate
Confidence Level Comments: No Data Available
Grank: G3?
Greasons: No Data Available
| Type | Name | Database Code | Classification Code |
|---|---|---|---|
| Class | 1 Forest & Woodland Class | C01 | 1 |
| Subclass | 1.B Temperate & Boreal Forest & Woodland Subclass | S15 | 1.B |
| Formation | 1.B.3 Temperate Flooded & Swamp Forest Formation | F026 | 1.B.3 |
| Division | 1.B.3.Nb Southeastern North American Flooded & Swamp Forest Division | D062 | 1.B.3.Nb |
| Macrogroup | 1.B.3.Nb.3 Sweetbay - Swamp Bay - Pond Pine Swamp Forest Macrogroup | M032 | 1.B.3.Nb.3 |
| Group | 1.B.3.Nb.3.a Sweetbay - Loblolly-bay - Pond Pine Swamp Forest Group | G037 | 1.B.3.Nb.3.a |
| Alliance | A3350 Cabbage Palmetto - Live Oak - Sweetbay Swamp Forest Alliance | A3350 | 1.B.3.Nb.3.a |
| Association | CEGL007040 Cabbage Palmetto - Live Oak Swamp Forest | CEGL007040 | 1.B.3.Nb.3.a |
Concept Lineage: No Data Available
Predecessors: No Data Available
Obsolete Names: No Data Available
Obsolete Parents: No Data Available
Synonomy: = Maritime Strand Forest (Wharton 1978)
- Chafin, L. 2011. Georgia''s natural communities and associated rare plant and animal species: Thumbnail accounts. Based on "Guide to the Natural Communities of Georgia," by Edwards et al. 2013. University of Georgia Press. Georgia Nongame Conservation Section, Wildlife Resources Division, Georgia Department of Natural Resources. 125 pp.
- FNAI [Florida Natural Areas Inventory]. 2010a. Guide to the natural communities of Florida: 2010 edition. Florida Natural Areas Inventory, Tallahassee, FL. 228 pp. [https://fnai.org/naturalcommguide.cfm]
- GNHP [Georgia Natural Heritage Program]. 2018. Unpublished data. Georgia Natural Heritage Program, Wildlife Resources Division, Georgia Department of Natural Resources, Social Circle.
- NatureServe Ecology - Southeastern United States. No date. Unpublished data. NatureServe, Durham, NC.
- Schafale, M. P., and A. S. Weakley. 1990. Classification of the natural communities of North Carolina. Third approximation. North Carolina Department of Environment, Health, and Natural Resources, Division of Parks and Recreation, Natural Heritage Program, Raleigh. 325 pp.
- Southeastern Ecology Working Group of NatureServe. No date. International Ecological Classification Standard: International Vegetation Classification. Terrestrial Vegetation. NatureServe, Durham, NC.
- Wharton, C. H. 1978. The natural environments of Georgia. Georgia Department of Natural Resources, Atlanta. 227 pp.