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CEGL004163 Chamaedaphne calyculata / Carex striata - Woodwardia virginica Wet Dwarf-shrubland
Type Concept Sentence: No Data Available
Common (Translated Scientific) Name: Leatherleaf / Walter''s Sedge - Virginia Chainfern Wet Dwarf-shrubland
Colloquial Name: Low Wet Leatherleaf / Sedge - Chainfern Pocosin
Hierarchy Level: Association
Type Concept: This dwarf-shrubland is found in North Carolina in peat-burn openings and other mucky depressions in low, medium, or high pocosins, sometimes forming a mosaic with various shrublands. Individual patches are usually small but sometimes abundantly intermixed with low pocosin shrub vegetation. Vegetation is dominated by Chamaedaphne calyculata, Carex striata, and Woodwardia virginica, but lacks abundant Vaccinium macrocarpon or Sarracenia spp. Other characteristic species include Eriophorum virginicum, Calamovilfa brevipilis, Utricularia subulata, Lysimachia asperulifolia, Peltandra sagittifolia, and other shrubs (scattered).
Diagnostic Characteristics: No Data Available
Rationale for Nominal Species or Physiognomic Features: No Data Available
Classification Comments: This association may be somewhat transient over a period of decades.
Similar NVC Types: No Data Available
note: No Data Available
Physiognomy and Structure: No Data Available
Floristics: Dominance by Chamaedaphne calyculata, Carex striata, and Woodwardia virginica is characteristic. Other characteristic species include Eriophorum virginicum, Calamovilfa brevipilis, Utricularia subulata, Lysimachia asperulifolia, Peltandra sagittifolia, and other shrubs, which are scattered.
Dynamics: This community results from catastrophic fires in large blanket bog pocosins; such fires are not legal as prescribed fire, and now only occur as wildfires which are aggressively suppressed. This community may be considered a "fugitive," one which requires catastrophic disturbance to establish it, and since these disturbances are suppressed, its future is uncertain.
Environmental Description: No Data Available
Geographic Range: This saturated dwarf-shrub herbaceous association is restricted to the Outer Coastal Plain of North Carolina.
Nations: US
States/Provinces: NC
Plot Analysis Summary:
http://vegbank.org/natureserve/ELEMENT_GLOBAL.2.688638
Confidence Level: Low - Poorly Documented
Confidence Level Comments: No Data Available
Grank: G1G2
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.2 Temperate to Polar Bog & Fen Formation | F016 | 2.C.2 |
| Division | 2.C.2.Nb Atlantic & Gulf Coastal Plain Pocosin Division | D324 | 2.C.2.Nb |
| Macrogroup | 2.C.2.Nb.1 Shining Fetterbush - Inkberry - Swamp Titi Bog & Fen Macrogroup | M065 | 2.C.2.Nb.1 |
| Group | 2.C.2.Nb.1.a Shining Fetterbush - Inkberry - Swamp Titi Pocosin & Shrub Bog Group | G186 | 2.C.2.Nb.1.a |
| Alliance | A3441 Leatherleaf / Walter''s Sedge Dwarf-shrub Pocosin Alliance | A3441 | 2.C.2.Nb.1.a |
| Association | CEGL004163 Leatherleaf / Walter''s Sedge - Virginia Chainfern Wet Dwarf-shrubland | CEGL004163 | 2.C.2.Nb.1.a |
Concept Lineage: No Data Available
Predecessors: No Data Available
Obsolete Names: No Data Available
Obsolete Parents: No Data Available
Synonomy: No Data Available
- 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.
- Southeastern Ecology Working Group of NatureServe. No date. International Ecological Classification Standard: International Vegetation Classification. Terrestrial Vegetation. NatureServe, Durham, NC.