Southern Bald-cypress - Swamp Blackgum Tidal Swamp Forest

Type:Alliance
Parent classification:Bald-cypress - Tupelo Floodplain Forest
Scientific Name:Taxodium distichum - Nyssa biflora Tidal Swamp Forest Alliance
Location:United States (Georgia, Alabama, South Carolina, Maryland, Louisiana, Florida, North Carolina, Mississippi, Delaware, Virginia)
Description:These are tidally flooded forests in lower, estuarine reaches of brownwater and blackwater rivers in the Outer Coastal Plain (tidewater) and also along estuarine shores, dominated by various combinations of Nyssa biflora and Taxodium distichum with Magnolia virginiana, Nyssa aquatica, and/or Pinus taeda in the overstory.
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Child types

Name
Apalachicola River Tidal Swamp Forest
Bald-cypress / Shoreline Sedge Tidal Woodland
Bald-cypress / Wax-myrtle / Eastern Marsh Fern Wooded Marsh
Chesapeake Bay Tidal Bald-cypress - Swamp Tupelo Swamp Forest
East Gulf Coastal Plain Maritime Slash Pine Woodland
Hardwood Tidal Swamp Forest
Lafayette Freshwater Tidal Swamp Forest
Mid-Atlantic Freshwater Pond-cypress Tidal Woodland
Mid-Atlantic Tidal Bald-cypress Woodland
Northern Gulf Tidal Pond-cypress Forest
Northern Gulf Tidal Water Tupelo Swamp Forest
South Atlantic Tidal Bald-cypress Woodland
St. Marks Freshwater Tidal Swamp Forest
Taxodium distichum - Nyssa biflora - Magnolia virginiana - Fraxinus profunda Tidal Forest
Taxodium distichum - Salix nigra / Morella cerifera / Thelypteris palustris Woodland [Park Special]
Wind-Tidal Bald-cypress - Tupelo Swamp Forest

Habitat Vegetation Classification provided by NatureServe Explorer