Print Report

CEGL002096 Populus deltoides - Ulmus americana - Celtis laevigata Floodplain Forest

Type Concept Sentence: No Data Available


Common (Translated Scientific) Name: Eastern Cottonwood - American Elm - Sugarberry Floodplain Forest

Colloquial Name: No Data Available

Hierarchy Level:  Association

Type Concept: In Oklahoma, this association occurs along streams throughout the state, except the panhandle. Characteristic species include Acer negundo, Carya illinoinensis, Elymus villosus, Fraxinus pennsylvanica, Symphoricarpos orbiculatus, and 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:  No Data Available

Geographic Range: This association is found in Oklahoma.

Nations: US

States/Provinces:  OK, TX?




Confidence Level: Low - Poorly Documented

Confidence Level Comments: No Data Available

Grank: G3

Greasons: No Data Available


Concept Lineage: No Data Available

Predecessors: No Data Available

Obsolete Names: No Data Available

Obsolete Parents: No Data Available

Synonomy: < Sugarberry - American Elm - Green Ash: 93 (Eyre 1980)

Concept Author(s): Great Plains Program

Author of Description: Great Plains Program

Acknowledgements: No Data Available

Version Date: 01-01-95

  • Duck, L. G., and J. B. Fletcher. 1945. A survey of the game and furbearing animals of Oklahoma; chapter 2, The game types of Oklahoma. Oklahoma Game and Fish Commission, Division of Wildlife Restoration and Research, Oklahoma City.
  • Eyre, F. H., editor. 1980. Forest cover types of the United States and Canada. Society of American Foresters, Washington, DC. 148 pp.
  • Hoagland, B. 2000. The vegetation of Oklahoma: A classification for landscape mapping and conservation planning. The Southwestern Naturalist 45(4):385-420.
  • Southeastern Ecology Working Group of NatureServe. No date. International Ecological Classification Standard: International Vegetation Classification. Terrestrial Vegetation. NatureServe, Durham, NC.
  • Taylor, R. J. 1967. The relation of forest vegetation to soils and geology in the Gulf Coastal Plain in Oklahoma. Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, University of Oklahoma, Norman.