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CEGL002125 Juniperus ashei / Bouteloua (curtipendula, hirsuta) Woodland

Type Concept Sentence: No Data Available


Common (Translated Scientific) Name: Ashe''s Juniper / (Sideoats Grama, Hairy Grama) Woodland

Colloquial Name: No Data Available

Hierarchy Level:  Association

Type Concept: Juniperus ashei woodlands in the Arbuckle Mountains of Oklahoma (Johnston, Marshall, Murray, and Pontotoc counties). Other characteristic species include Bouteloua curtipendula, Bouteloua hirsuta, Bouteloua rigidiseta, Engelmannia peristenia, Forestiera pubescens, and Fraxinus albicans.

Diagnostic Characteristics: No Data Available

Rationale for Nominal Species or Physiognomic Features: No Data Available

Classification Comments: This type is only in the Arbuckle Mountains of Oklahoma. All the pure Juniperus ashei Ozark stands are moved to ~Juniperus ashei Ozark Clifftop Woodland (CEGL004672)$$.

Similar NVC Types: No Data Available
note: No Data Available

Physiognomy and Structure: No Data Available

Floristics: Juniperus ashei dominates the tree canopy. Other characteristic species include Bouteloua curtipendula, Bouteloua hirsuta, Bouteloua rigidiseta, Engelmannia peristenia (= Engelmannia pinnatifida), Forestiera pubescens, and Fraxinus albicans (= Fraxinus texensis).

Dynamics:  No Data Available

Environmental Description:  No Data Available

Geographic Range: This community occurs in the Arbuckle Mountains of Oklahoma (Johnston, Marshall, Murray, and Pontotoc counties).

Nations: US

States/Provinces:  OK




Confidence Level: Low - Poorly Documented

Confidence Level Comments: No Data Available

Grank: G2G3

Greasons: No Data Available


Concept Lineage: merged

Predecessors: No Data Available

Obsolete Names: No Data Available

Obsolete Parents: No Data Available

Synonomy: No Data Available

Concept Author(s): Great Plains Program

Author of Description: B. Hoagland

Acknowledgements: No Data Available

Version Date: 01-01-95

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  • Hopkins, M. 1938. Notes from the herbarium of the University of Oklahoma--I. Rhodora 40:425-434.
  • Little, E. L., Jr. 1975. Rare and local conifers in the United States. Conservation Research Report No. 19. U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Washington, DC. 25 pp.
  • Little, E. L., Jr. 1996. Forest trees of Oklahoma: How to know them. Oklahoma Forestry Services, State Department of Agriculture. Publication No. 1, Revised Edition No. 14. Oklahoma City. 205 pp.
  • Salas, D. E., T. Folts-Zettner, R. W. Sanders, and J. Drake. 2010c. Vegetation classification and mapping at Chickasaw National Recreation Area. Natural Resource Technical Report NPS/SOPN/NRTR--2010/286. National Park Service, Fort Collins, CO. 176 pp.
  • Southeastern Ecology Working Group of NatureServe. No date. International Ecological Classification Standard: International Vegetation Classification. Terrestrial Vegetation. NatureServe, Durham, NC.