Great Plains Cottonwood - Willow Floodplain Forest
| Type: | Group | | Parent classification: | Great Plains Flooded & Swamp Forest | | Scientific Name: | Populus deltoides - Fraxinus pennsylvanica / Pascopyrum smithii Floodplain Forest Group | | Location: | United States (Montana, Wyoming, Oklahoma, North Dakota, Colorado, Nebraska, South Dakota, Kansas, Texas); Canada (Alberta, Manitoba, Saskatchewan) | | Description: | This group is found across the Great Plains on floodplains of medium to small rivers where an open to moderately closed tree canopy is dominated by Populus deltoides or sometimes Fraxinus pennsylvanica, often with Acer negundo, Salix amygdaloides, Salix nigra, and, in the southern portion of the group's range, Celtis laevigata and Platanus occidentalis. | | Website: | View website |
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