Northern Piedmont-Central Appalachian Maple - Ash Swamp Forest
| Type: | Association | | Parent classification: | Central Appalachian-Piedmont Sycamore - Green Ash Floodplain Forest | | Scientific Name: | Acer (rubrum, saccharinum) - Fraxinus pennsylvanica - Ulmus americana / Boehmeria cylindrica Floodplain Forest | | Location: | United States (Pennsylvania, New Jersey, District of Columbia, Virginia, Maryland, Kentucky, West Virginia) | | Description: | This maple - ash swamp forest is found in poorly drained areas in floodplains, such as backswamps, abandoned oxbows, sloughs, and depressions, in the northern Piedmont and Central Appalachians; examples are dominated by variable combinations of the trees Fraxinus pennsylvanica, Acer rubrum, and Acer saccharinum, with Ulmus americana. | | Website: | View website |
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