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CEGL003687 Paulownia tomentosa Ruderal Woodland

Type Concept Sentence: No Data Available


Common (Translated Scientific) Name: Princess-tree Ruderal Woodland

Colloquial Name: Ruderal Princess-tree Woodland

Hierarchy Level:  Association

Type Concept: This woodland occurs on steep roadcuts, highway rights-of-way, and in other disturbed areas in North Carolina, Virginia and Tennessee.

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 type occurs in North Carolina, Virginia and Tennessee.

Nations: US

States/Provinces:  NC, TN, VA




Confidence Level: Low - Poorly Documented

Confidence Level Comments: No Data Available

Grank: GNA

Greasons: No Data Available


Concept Lineage: No Data Available

Predecessors: No Data Available

Obsolete Names: No Data Available

Obsolete Parents: No Data Available

Synonomy: = Paulownia tomentosa (Burns and Honkala 1990b)
? Empress tree disturbed woodland (CAP pers. comm. 1998)
= naturalized Paulownia tomentosa (Williams 1993)

Concept Author(s): S. Simon, G. Kauffman, and D. Danley

Author of Description: S. Simon, G. Kauffman, D. Danley

Acknowledgements: No Data Available

Version Date: 08-01-94

  • Burns, R. M., and B. H. Honkala, technical coordinators. 1990b. Silvics of North America. Volume 2: Hardwoods. Agriculture Handbook 654. USDA Forest Service, Washington, DC. 877 pp.
  • CAP [Central Appalachian Forest Working Group]. 1998. Central Appalachian Working group discussions. The Nature Conservancy, Boston, MA.
  • Nordman, C., M. Russo, and L. Smart. 2011. Vegetation types of the Natchez Trace Parkway, based on the U.S. National Vegetation Classification. NatureServe Central Databases (International Ecological Classification Standard: Terrestrial Ecological Classifications). Arlington, VA. Data current as of 11 April 2011. 548 pp.
  • Southeastern Ecology Working Group of NatureServe. No date. International Ecological Classification Standard: International Vegetation Classification. Terrestrial Vegetation. NatureServe, Durham, NC.
  • Williams, C. E. 1993. Age structure and importance of naturalized Paulownia tomentosa in a central Virginia streamside forest. Castanea 58:243-249.