Dry Outwash

Description

As a result of a long history of human activity, the plant associations listed below, may in reality, reflect the current naturalized, minimally-managed state rather than the historic, pre-European settlement condition. Notice transition pathways are not always designated between some of the communities in the reference state because the differences in vegetation are more controlled by landscape position, rather than disturbances or management, or that the relationships are not understood. In addition, undisclosed successional plant community-types following disturbance may be included as community phases.

The reference state is highly varied depending on landscape position and proximity to the coast. For simplicity one modal communities is highlighted, but consider other plant communities that follow:

• Pinus strobus - Pinus resinosa - Pinus rigida Forest
Translated Name: Eastern White Pine - Red Pine - Pitch Pine Forest
Common Name: Northeastern Dry Pine Forest (CEGL006259)

Other communities include:

• Pinus strobus - Pinus resinosa - Pinus rigida Forest
Translated Name: Eastern White Pine - Red Pine - Pitch Pine Forest
Common Name: Northeastern Dry Pine Forest (CEGL006259)

• Pinus rigida / Quercus ilicifolia / Lespedeza capitata Woodland
Translated Name: Pitch Pine / Bear Oak / Round-head Bushclover Woodland
Common Name: Inland Pitch Pine / Bear Oak Barrens (CEGL006025)

• Pinus rigida / Vaccinium spp. - Gaylussacia baccata Woodland
Translated Name: Pitch Pine / Blueberry species - Black Huckleberry Woodland
Common Name: Pitch Pine / Heath Barrens (CEGL005046)

• Pinus rigida - Quercus (velutina, montana) Forest
Translated Name: Pitch Pine - (Black Oak, Chestnut Oak) Forest
Common Name: Inland Pitch Pine - Oak Forest (CEGL 006290)

Other communities include:

• Fagus grandifolia - Quercus alba - Quercus rubra Forest
Translated Name: American Beech - White Oak - Northern Red Oak Forest
Common Name: Northeastern Atlantic Coastal Beech - Oak Forest (CEGL006377)

• Quercus ilicifolia - Quercus prinoides Scrub
Translated Name: Bear Oak - Dwarf Chinkapin Oak Scrub
Common Name: Outwash Bear Oak Barrens (CEGL006111)

Coastal or Maritime plant comminntiies:

• Pinus rigida / Quercus ilicifolia / Morella pensylvanica Woodland
Translated Name: Pitch Pine / Bear Oak / Northern Bayberry Woodland
Common Name: Coastal Pitch Pine / Bear Oak Barrens (CEGL006315)

• Pinus rigida - Quercus coccinea / Vaccinium pallidum - (Morella pensylvanica) Woodland
Translated Name: Pitch Pine - Scarlet Oak / Blue Ridge Blueberry – [Northern Bayberry] Woodland
Common Name: Pitch Pine - Scarlet Oak Woodland (CEGL006381)

• Quercus stellata - Quercus velutina / Morella pensylvanica / Deschampsia flexuosa Forest
Translated Name: Post Oak - Black Oak / Northern Bayberry / Wavy Hairgrass Forest
Common Name: North Atlantic Coast Maritime Post Oak Forest (CEGL006373)

• Juniperus virginiana / Morella pensylvanica Woodland
Translated Name: Eastern Red-cedar / Northern Bayberry Woodland
Common Name: Maritime Red-cedar Woodland (CEGL006212)

• Amelanchier canadensis - Viburnum spp. - Morella pensylvanica Scrub Forest
Translated Name: Canadian Serviceberry - Viburnum species - Northern Bayberry Scrub Forest
Common Name: Northern Tall Maritime Scrub Forest CEGL006379)

(Source: NatureServe 2022)

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 is a completely converted or transformed state, heavily or completely conditioned by land management, e.g., cultivated lands, pasture/haylands, vineyards, and plantations, etc.

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