Well Drained Dense Till Uplands

Description

Representative plant communities are typically dominated by a mixed oak-sugar maple forest. The vegetation is not well described. Dense till sites are considered slightly more mesophytic than ablation till sites, hence contain more sugar maple (Acer saccharum) and white ash (Fraxinus americana).

The reference plant community includes:
• Quercus (alba, rubra, velutina) - Carya spp. / Viburnum acerifolium Forest
Translated Name: (White Oak, Northern Red Oak, Black Oak) / Hickory species / Mapleleaf Viburnum Forest
Common Name: Dry-mesic Oak - Hickory / Viburnum Forest (CEGL006336)

• Acer saccharum - Quercus rubra / Hepatica nobilis var. obtusa Forest
Translated Name: Sugar Maple - Northern Red Oak / Round-lobe Liverleaf Forest
Common Name: Sugar Maple - Ash - Oak - Hickory Mesic Forest (CEGL006046)

Others plant communities can include:


• Quercus rubra - Acer saccharum / Viburnum acerifolium - Lindera benzoin Forest
Translated Name: Northern Red Oak - Sugar Maple / Mapleleaf Viburnum - Northern Spicebush Forest
Common Name: Red Oak - Transitional Northern Hardwood Forest (CEGL006635)

• Quercus rubra - Liriodendron tulipifera - Betula lenta Forest
Translated Name: Northern Red Oak - Tuliptree - Sweet Birch Forest
Common Name: Lower New England Oak - TulipTree Forest (CEGL8573)

• Quercus rubra - Carya (glabra, ovata) / Ostrya virginiana / Carex lucorum Forest
Translated Name: Northern Red Oak - (Pignut Hickory, Shagbark Hickory) / Hophornbeam / Blue Ridge Sedge Forest
Common Name: Oak - Hickory / Hophornbeam / Sedge Forest (CEGL006301)

Submodel

Description

The Semi-natural State would expect plant communities where ecological processes are primarily operating with some land conditioning in the past or present, e.g., managed forests, or plant communities that are an artifact of land management e.g., predominately invasive plants.

Submodel

Description

The Cultural State would expect the ecological site to be very strongly conditioned by land management conversion, by transformation to Cultivated/Pasture/Plantation.

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