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CEGL004639 Crataegus aestivalis Swamp Forest
Type Concept Sentence: This community is strongly dominated by Crataegus aestivalis and occurs in sinkholes and other isolated upland depressions of the South Atlantic and East Gulf coastal plains of Alabama, Georgia and Florida.
Common (Translated Scientific) Name: May Hawthorn Swamp Forest
Colloquial Name: Eastern May Hawthorn Pond
Hierarchy Level: Association
Type Concept: This community occurs in sinkholes and other isolated upland depressions of the South Atlantic and East Gulf coastal plains of Alabama, Georgia and Florida. It is strongly dominated by trees and large shrubs of Crataegus aestivalis. There are generally few or no herb species present.
Diagnostic Characteristics: No Data Available
Rationale for Nominal Species or Physiognomic Features: No Data Available
Classification Comments: Crataegus aestivalis occurs from southern Virginia and southeastern North Carolina through South Carolina and Georgia to northern peninsular and eastern Panhandle Florida, as well as southern Alabama and Mississippi, but the range of the association is apparently more limited. This community is not known from North Carolina (A. Weakley pers. comm.).
Similar NVC Types: No Data Available
note: No Data Available
Physiognomy and Structure: No Data Available
Floristics: This community is strongly dominated by trees and large shrubs of Crataegus aestivalis. There are generally few or no herb species present.
Dynamics: No Data Available
Environmental Description: This community occurs in sinkholes and other isolated upland depressions. These scattered wetland inclusions in predominantly mesic to dry-mesic uplands are typically subjected to intensive forest management practices.
Geographic Range: This mayhaw pond association occurs in the South Atlantic and East Gulf coastal plains of Alabama, Georgia and Florida.
Nations: US
States/Provinces: AL, FL, GA
Plot Analysis Summary:
http://vegbank.org/natureserve/ELEMENT_GLOBAL.2.687549
Confidence Level: Moderate
Confidence Level Comments: No Data Available
Grank: G2G3
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.2 Swamp Tupelo - Swamp Chestnut Oak - Bald-cypress Basin Swamp & Flatwoods Macrogroup | M033 | 1.B.3.Nb.2 |
| Group | 1.B.3.Nb.2.a Swamp Tupelo - Ogeechee Tupelo - Bald-cypress Basin Swamp Group | G038 | 1.B.3.Nb.2.a |
| Alliance | A0320 May Hawthorn - Riverflat Hawthorn - Rusty Hawthorn Swamp Forest Alliance | A0320 | 1.B.3.Nb.2.a |
| Association | CEGL004639 May Hawthorn Swamp Forest | CEGL004639 | 1.B.3.Nb.2.a |
Concept Lineage: No Data Available
Predecessors: No Data Available
Obsolete Names: No Data Available
Obsolete Parents: No Data Available
Synonomy: = May haw pond (Wharton et al. 1982) [cite "May haw ponds" as a dominance type of Zone III which occurs at Fort Stewart, Georgia (page 56), but Crataegus aestivalis is cited as a characteristic plant of Zone II (page 39).]
- ALNHP [Alabama Natural Heritage Program]. 2018. Unpublished data on file. Alabama Natural Heritage Program, Auburn University.
- GNHP [Georgia Natural Heritage Program]. 2018. Unpublished data. Georgia Natural Heritage Program, Wildlife Resources Division, Georgia Department of Natural Resources, Social Circle.
- Southeastern Ecology Working Group of NatureServe. No date. International Ecological Classification Standard: International Vegetation Classification. Terrestrial Vegetation. NatureServe, Durham, NC.
- Weakley, Alan, PhD. Personal communication. Curator, UNC Herbarium, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Formerly Chief Ecologist, NatureServe, Southeast Region, Durham, NC.
- Wharton, C. H., W. M. Kitchens, E. C. Pendleton, and T. W. Sipe. 1982. The ecology of bottomland hardwood swamps of the Southeast: A community profile. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Office of Biological Services. FWS/OBS-81/37. Washington, DC.