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CEGL006241 Quercus bicolor / Vaccinium corymbosum / Carex stipata Wet Forest
Type Concept Sentence: No Data Available
Common (Translated Scientific) Name: Swamp White Oak / Highbush Blueberry / Awl-fruit Sedge Wet Forest
Colloquial Name: Perched Swamp White Oak Swamp Forest
Hierarchy Level: Association
Type Concept: This perched swamp white oak swamp community from western New York occurs in shallow depressions on a forested hillside where the water table is locally perched above the surrounding groundwater level. The water level fluctuates seasonally; the swamp may be flooded in spring and nearly dry by late summer. The dominant tree is Quercus bicolor, which varies from nearly pure, open canopy dominance in areas that are more permanently saturated to more closed in seasonally dry areas. The canopy may include Acer rubrum, Pinus rigida, Pinus strobus, Quercus alba, and Quercus coccinea. The shrub layer is fairly open, with scattered Gaylussacia baccata, Rhododendron periclymenoides, Vaccinium corymbosum, and Viburnum recognitum. The herbaceous and moss layers may be sparse under more closed canopy or more extensive in saturated, open canopy, where Sphagnum spp. may form extensive carpets mixed with Carex stipata, Glyceria striata, Scirpus cyperinus, Thelypteris palustris, and the woody vine Toxicodendron radicans.
Diagnostic Characteristics: No Data Available
Rationale for Nominal Species or Physiognomic Features: No Data Available
Classification Comments: No Data Available
Similar NVC Types: No Data Available
note: No Data Available
Physiognomy and Structure: No Data Available
Floristics: No Data Available
Dynamics: No Data Available
Environmental Description: Occurs on seasonally flooded flats, edges of vernal pools/ponds or shallow depressions on hillsides where the water table is locally perched above the surrounding groundwater level. Typically, flooded in spring and nearly dry by late summer.
Geographic Range: Currently described from the Finger Lakes region of New York.
Nations: US
States/Provinces: NY
Plot Analysis Summary:
http://vegbank.org/natureserve/ELEMENT_GLOBAL.2.688464
Confidence Level: Low - Poorly Documented
Confidence Level Comments: No Data Available
Grank: GNR
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.Na Eastern North American-Great Plains Flooded & Swamp Forest Division | D011 | 1.B.3.Na |
| Macrogroup | 1.B.3.Na.2 Pin Oak - Green Ash - Blackgum Swamp Forest Macrogroup | M503 | 1.B.3.Na.2 |
| Group | 1.B.3.Na.2.h <i>Quercus bicolor - Fagus grandifolia - Acer rubrum</i> Swamp Forest Group | G918 | 1.B.3.Na.2.h |
| Alliance | A4476 <i>Quercus palustris - Quercus bicolor - Acer rubrum</i> Appalachian Swamp Forest Group | A4476 | 1.B.3.Na.2.h |
| Association | CEGL006241 Swamp White Oak / Highbush Blueberry / Awl-fruit Sedge Wet Forest | CEGL006241 | 1.B.3.Na.2.h |
Concept Lineage: merged
Predecessors: No Data Available
Obsolete Names: No Data Available
Obsolete Parents: No Data Available
Synonomy: = Perched swamp white oak swamp (Reschke 1990)
- Eastern Ecology Working Group of NatureServe. No date. International Ecological Classification Standard: International Vegetation Classification. Terrestrial Vegetation. NatureServe, Boston, MA.
- Edinger, G. J., D. J. Evans, S. Gebauer, T. G. Howard, D. M. Hunt, and A. M. Olivero, editors. 2014a. Ecological communities of New York state. Second edition. A revised and expanded edition of Carol Reschke''s ecological communities of New York state. New York Natural Heritage Program, New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, Albany, NY.
- Reschke, C. 1990. Ecological communities of New York State. New York Natural Heritage Program, New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, Latham, NY. 96 pp.