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CFO04 Row & Close Grain Crop Cultural Formation

Type Concept Sentence: Agricultural vegetation, including row crops, such as corn, soybeans, cotton, tobacco, sunflowers, a wide variety of vegetables, and some planted grain crops (annual rye, wheat).


Common (Translated Scientific) Name: Row & Close Grain Crop Cultural Formation

Colloquial Name: Row & Close Grain Crop

Hierarchy Level:  Cultural Formation

Type Concept: Agricultural vegetation, including row crops, such as corn, soybeans, cotton, tobacco, sunflowers, a wide variety of vegetables, and some planted grain crops (annual rye, wheat).

Diagnostic Characteristics: No Data Available

Rationale for Nominal Species or Physiognomic Features: No Data Available

Classification Comments: Some planted grain crops, such as annual rye or wheat are more akin to row crops than to hay or pasture and so they are placed here, rather than in 7.B.2 ~Pasture & Hay Field Crop Cultural Formation (CFO05)$$.

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

Physiognomy and Structure: Agricultural vegetation, including row crops, such as corn, soybeans, cotton, tobacco, sunflowers, a wide variety of vegetables, and some planted grain crops (annual rye, wheat).

Floristics: No Data Available

Dynamics:  No Data Available

Environmental Description:  No Data Available

Geographic Range: Widely distributed across the globe, except in very dry or very cold regions.

Nations: AU,CA,US

States/Provinces:  No Data Available



Confidence Level: None

Confidence Level Comments: No Data Available

Grank: GNA

Greasons: No Data Available

Type Name Database Code Classification Code
Cultural Class CCL01 Anthromorphic Vegetation Cultural Class CCL01 7
Cultural Formation CFO04 Row & Close Grain Crop Cultural Formation CFO04 7.B.1
Cultural Subclass CSC02 Herbaceous Agricultural Vegetation Cultural Subclass CSC02 7.B
Cultural Subformation CSF09 Graminoid Row Crop Cultural Subformation CSF09 7.B.1.1
Cultural Subformation CSF10 Forb Row Crop Cultural Subformation CSF10 7.B.1.2
Cultural Subformation CSF11 Close Grain Crop Cultural Subformation CSF11 7.B.1.3

Concept Lineage: No Data Available

Predecessors: No Data Available

Obsolete Names: No Data Available

Obsolete Parents: No Data Available

Synonomy: No Data Available

Concept Author(s): Hierarchy Revisions Working Group, Federal Geographic Data Committee (Faber-Langendoen et al. 2014)

Author of Description: D. Faber-Langendoen

Acknowledgements: No Data Available

Version Date: 10-17-14

  • Faber-Langendoen, D., T. Keeler-Wolf, D. Meidinger, C. Josse, A. Weakley, D. Tart, G. Navarro, B. Hoagland, S. Ponomarenko, J.-P. Saucier, G. Fults, and E. Helmer. 2015c. Classification and description of world formation types. General Technical Report RMRS-GTR-000. USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, Fort Collins, CO.