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CEGL007052 Salix caroliniana Coastal Plain Wet Shrubland
Type Concept Sentence: No Data Available
Common (Translated Scientific) Name: Coastal Plain Willow Coastal Plain Wet Shrubland
Colloquial Name: Coastal Plain Willow Wet Shrubland
Hierarchy Level: Association
Type Concept: This Carolina willow shrubland is found widely throughout parts of the Atlantic and eastern Gulf coastal plains of the southeastern United States. This is a broadly defined type for riverside and streamside thickets dominated by Salix caroliniana with temporarily flooded hydrology. Further information is needed to characterize this type. This vegetation is often found along blackwater streams and on riverbanks, sand bars, and other wet sites. This association is a biogeographic segregate of a formerly more widespread association (CEGL003899).
Diagnostic Characteristics: No Data Available
Rationale for Nominal Species or Physiognomic Features: No Data Available
Classification Comments: This association was developed as a biogeographic split from former CEGL003899, which had a very broad distribution and which was originally described from the Ozarks of Arkansas, with the coastal plain observations and literature references added to it later. There are scattered populations of Salix caroliniana in parts of Maryland and Pennsylvania that may need to be accommodated elsewhere if they are recognized there.
Similar NVC Types: No Data Available
note: No Data Available
Physiognomy and Structure: No Data Available
Floristics: These riverside and streamside thickets are dominated by Salix caroliniana. A number of other shrub species may also be present, with some variability between geographic location and specific habitat type. In north-central Florida other shrubs include Sambucus nigra ssp. canadensis (= Sambucus canadensis), Baccharis halimifolia, and Morella cerifera (= Myrica cerifera) (Patton and Judd 1986). Further information is needed to characterize this type.
Dynamics: No Data Available
Environmental Description: This broadly defined type accommodates Salix caroliniana stands in a variety of temporarily flooded habitats in the southeastern United States, including riverside and streamside thickets, and on sandbars. Some examples may be somewhat ruderal or successional, e.g., where Salix caroliniana thickets develop along streams in pastures or other wet areas where the natural forest canopy has been removed.
Geographic Range: This Carolina willow shrubland type is found throughout parts of the Atlantic and eastern Gulf coastal plains of the southeastern United States, from North Carolina south and west to Florida and Alabama, and possibly north into the interior provinces of Alabama; also possibly the adjacent Piedmont in the Carolinas.
Nations: US
States/Provinces: AL?, FL, GA, NC, SC
Plot Analysis Summary:
http://vegbank.org/natureserve/ELEMENT_GLOBAL.2.867410
Confidence Level: Low - Poorly Documented
Confidence Level Comments: No Data Available
Grank: G4?
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.4 Temperate to Polar Freshwater Marsh, Wet Meadow & Shrubland Formation | F013 | 2.C.4 |
| Division | 2.C.4.Ne Atlantic & Gulf Coastal Marsh, Wet Meadow & Shrubland Division | D322 | 2.C.4.Ne |
| Macrogroup | 2.C.4.Ne.2 Beaksedge species - Spikerush species - Panicgrass species Atlantic & Gulf Coastal Plain Wet Prairie & Marsh Macrogroup | M067 | 2.C.4.Ne.2 |
| Group | 2.C.4.Ne.2.a Pickerelweed - Maidencane River & Basin Freshwater Marsh & Wet Meadow Group | G188 | 2.C.4.Ne.2.a |
| Alliance | A3405 Redtop Panicgrass - Swamp Smartweed - Dotted Smartweed Southeastern Sandbar Alliance | A3405 | 2.C.4.Ne.2.a |
| Association | CEGL007052 Coastal Plain Willow Coastal Plain Wet Shrubland | CEGL007052 | 2.C.4.Ne.2.a |
Concept Lineage: CEGL003899 split into CEGL007064 and CEGL007052.
Predecessors: No Data Available
Obsolete Names: No Data Available
Obsolete Parents: No Data Available
Synonomy: No Data Available
- GNHP [Georgia Natural Heritage Program]. 2018. Unpublished data. Georgia Natural Heritage Program, Wildlife Resources Division, Georgia Department of Natural Resources, Social Circle.
- NatureServe Ecology - Southeastern United States. No date. Unpublished data. NatureServe, Durham, NC.
- Patton, J. E., and W. S. Judd. 1986. Vascular flora of Paynes Prairie Basin and Alachua Sink Hammock, Alachua County, Florida. Castanea 51:88-110.
- 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.