Pond-cypress Mixed Shrub Basin Swamp
Type: | Alliance | Parent classification: | Pond-cypress Basin Swamp | Scientific Name: | Taxodium ascendens / Cyrilla racemiflora Swamp Forest Alliance | Location: | United States (Louisiana, Maryland, Georgia, North Carolina, Florida, South Carolina, Mississippi, Alabama) | Description: | Woodland or forest vegetation of depression ponds, Carolina bays, and other non-alluvial wetlands of the Southeastern Coastal Plain with stands dominated by an open to closed canopy of Taxodium ascendens or sometimes Nyssa biflora, with a dense shrub layer of Cyrilla racemiflora, Ilex myrtifolia, and other shrubs (especially of the heath family), and the herbaceous flora dominated by graminoids, such as Rhynchospora spp. | Website: | View website |
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