Well Drained Shallow Till Uplands

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.

Within the reference state, the plant communities are quite variable. The reference plant community includes:

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

• Juniperus virginiana - Fraxinus americana / Danthonia spicata Woodland (CEGL006002)
Translated Name: Eastern Red-cedar - White Ash / Poverty Oatgrass Woodland
Common Name: Northeast Red Cedar Circumneutral Rocky Summit

Others plant communities can include:

• Quercus montana - Quercus (rubra, velutina) / Vaccinium (angustifolium, pallidum) Forest (CEGL006282)
Translated Name: Chestnut Oak - (Northern Red Oak, Black Oak) / Lowbush Blueberry, Blue Ridge Blueberry Forest
Common Name: Lower New England High Slope Chestnut Oak Forest

• Quercus rubra - (Quercus montana) / Vaccinium spp. / Deschampsia flexuosa Woodland (CEGL006134)
Translated Name: Northern Red Oak - (Chestnut Oak) / Blueberry species / Wavy Hairgrass Woodland
Common Name: Red Oak / Heath Woodland Rocky Summit


(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 would expect the ecological site to be very strongly conditioned by land management, i.e., transformed/converted to cultivated, pasture, or plantation.

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