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CEGL007919 Pinus echinata Crowley''s Ridge Forest

Type Concept Sentence: No Data Available


Common (Translated Scientific) Name: Shortleaf Pine Crowley''s Ridge Forest

Colloquial Name: Crowley''s Ridge Shortleaf Pine Forest

Hierarchy Level:  Association

Type Concept: This shortleaf pine forest is found in the United States on the northern parts of Crowley''s Ridge in Arkansas and possibly Missouri. Stands are dominated by Pinus echinata. Further characterization is needed (to be provided by Tom Foti).

Diagnostic Characteristics: No Data Available

Rationale for Nominal Species or Physiognomic Features: No Data Available

Classification Comments: Further characterization is needed to characterize this type and to distinguish it from other shortleaf pine communities (to be provided by Tom Foti).

Similar NVC Types: No Data Available
note: No Data Available

Physiognomy and Structure: No Data Available

Floristics: Stands are dominated by Pinus echinata. Further characterization is needed.

Dynamics:  No Data Available

Environmental Description:  Stands occur on the northern parts of Crowley''s Ridge.

Geographic Range: This shortleaf pine forest is found in the United States on the northern parts of Crowley''s Ridge in Arkansas and possibly Missouri.

Nations: US

States/Provinces:  AR, MO




Confidence Level: Low - Poorly Documented

Confidence Level Comments: No Data Available

Grank: G3G4

Greasons: No Data Available


Concept Lineage: No Data Available

Predecessors: No Data Available

Obsolete Names: No Data Available

Obsolete Parents: No Data Available

Synonomy: = Pinus echinata Crowley''s Ridge Forest [Provisional] (Faber-Langendoen 2001)

Concept Author(s): S. Landaal and T. Foti

Author of Description: T. Foti

Acknowledgements: No Data Available

Version Date: 09-07-99

  • Faber-Langendoen, D., editor. 2001. Plant communities of the Midwest: Classification in an ecological context. Association for Biodiversity Information, Arlington, VA. 61 pp. plus appendix (705 pp.).
  • Southeastern Ecology Working Group of NatureServe. No date. International Ecological Classification Standard: International Vegetation Classification. Terrestrial Vegetation. NatureServe, Durham, NC.