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CEGL007384 Cornus foemina / Berchemia scandens Scrub Swamp
Type Concept Sentence: No Data Available
Common (Translated Scientific) Name: Stiff Dogwood / Alabama Supplejack Scrub Swamp
Colloquial Name: Mid-Atlantic Maritime Shrub Swamp (Dogwood Type)
Hierarchy Level: Association
Type Concept: This association represents peaty wetlands developed in old interdune swales along the North Carolina coast. Examples are dominated by a 4- to 10-m canopy of Cornus foemina, generally with dense thickets of Berchemia scandens. A sparse, emergent supercanopy of Pinus taeda is often present. Various marsh grasses and forbs can occur in the herb stratum, including Cladium mariscus ssp. jamaicense, Pluchea sp., Bidens sp., and others.
Diagnostic Characteristics: No Data Available
Rationale for Nominal Species or Physiognomic Features: No Data Available
Classification Comments: This community type appears to occur only at Buxton Woods, Dare County, North Carolina, where it occurs as a recurring community in a series of wetland interdune swales locally called "sedges." It forms complexes with freshwater marsh vegetation (not yet defined). Revisions and refinement can be based on North Carolina Vegetation Survey data.
Similar NVC Types: No Data Available
note: No Data Available
Physiognomy and Structure: No Data Available
Floristics: Examples are dominated by a 4- to 10-m canopy of Cornus foemina, generally with dense thickets of Berchemia scandens. A sparse, emergent supercanopy of Pinus taeda is often present. Various marsh grasses and forbs can occur in the herb stratum, including Cladium mariscus ssp. jamaicense, Pluchea sp., Bidens sp., and others.
Dynamics: No Data Available
Environmental Description: This vegetation type occurs in peaty wetlands in old interdune swales along the North Carolina coast. These swales retain surface water in winter, and are located within a matrix of forests largely removed from direct maritime influences (M. Schafale pers. comm.).
Geographic Range: This association occurs in old interdune swales along the North Carolina coast.
Nations: US
States/Provinces: NC
Plot Analysis Summary:
http://vegbank.org/natureserve/ELEMENT_GLOBAL.2.688412
Confidence Level: Moderate
Confidence Level Comments: No Data Available
Grank: G1
Greasons: No Data Available
| Type | Name | Database Code | Classification Code |
|---|---|---|---|
| Class | 2 Shrub & Herb Vegetation Class | C02 | 2 |
| Subclass | 2.C Shrub & Herb Wetland Subclass | S44 | 2.C |
| Formation | 2.C.4 Temperate to Polar Freshwater Marsh, Wet Meadow & Shrubland Formation | F013 | 2.C.4 |
| Division | 2.C.4.Ne Atlantic & Gulf Coastal Marsh, Wet Meadow & Shrubland Division | D322 | 2.C.4.Ne |
| Macrogroup | 2.C.4.Ne.2 Beaksedge species - Spikerush species - Panicgrass species Atlantic & Gulf Coastal Plain Wet Prairie & Marsh Macrogroup | M067 | 2.C.4.Ne.2 |
| Group | 2.C.4.Ne.2.f Northern & Mid-Atlantic Coastal Wetland Group | G752 | 2.C.4.Ne.2.f |
| Alliance | A3649 <i>Morella cerifera - Persea palustris - Salix caroliniana</i> Maritime Scrub Swamp Alliance | A3649 | 2.C.4.Ne.2.f |
| Association | CEGL007384 Stiff Dogwood / Alabama Supplejack Scrub Swamp | CEGL007384 | 2.C.4.Ne.2.f |
Concept Lineage: No Data Available
Predecessors: No Data Available
Obsolete Names: No Data Available
Obsolete Parents: No Data Available
Synonomy: = Maritime Shrub Swamp, Dogwood Variant (Schafale and Weakley 1990)
= Type 7 (dogwood shrub swamp) (Wentworth et al. 1993)
= Type 7 (dogwood shrub swamp) (Wentworth et al. 1993)
- Peet, R. K., T. R. Wentworth, M. P. Schafale, and A.S. Weakley. No date. Unpublished data of the North Carolina Vegetation Survey. University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
- Schafale, M. P. 2012. Classification of the natural communities of North Carolina, 4th Approximation. North Carolina Department of Environment, Health, and Natural Resources, Division of Parks and Recreation, Natural Heritage Program, Raleigh.
- 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.
- Schafale, Mike P. Personal communication. Ecologist, North Carolina Department of Environment, Health, and Natural Resources, Division of Parks and Recreation, Natural Heritage Program, Raleigh.
- Southeastern Ecology Working Group of NatureServe. No date. International Ecological Classification Standard: International Vegetation Classification. Terrestrial Vegetation. NatureServe, Durham, NC.
- Wentworth, T. R., M. P. Schafale, A. S. Weakley, R. K. Peet, P. S. White, and C. C. Frost. 1993. A preliminary classification of North Carolina barrier island forests. Pages 31-46 in: C. A. Cole and F. K. Turner, editors. Barrier island ecology of the mid-Atlantic coast: A symposium. Technical Report NPS/SERCAHA/NRTR-93/04. National Park Service, Atlanta, GA.