Appalachian-Northeast Alder - Willow - Dogwood Shrub Swamp
| Type: | Alliance | | Parent classification: | Appalachian-Northeast Wet Meadow & Shrub Swamp | | Scientific Name: | Alnus spp. - Salix spp. - Cornus sericea Shrub Swamp Alliance | | Location: | United States (New York, New Jersey, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Vermont, Delaware, Connecticut, Virginia, Georgia, Pennsylvania, Maine, Ohio, West Virginia); Canada (Ontario) | | Description: | This alliance contains tall-shrub swamps in the northeastern and north-central United States and eastern temperate Canada in a variety of non-alluvial topographic depressions, and dominated by Alnus incana, Alnus serrulata, Salix sericea, or Hypericum densiflorum. Associates may include Cornus sericea, Rosa palustris, Spiraea alba var. latifolia, Spiraea alba, Viburnum nudum var. cassinoides, and others. | | Website: | View website |
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