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Dry-Mesic Inland Mixed Oak Forest (Terrestrial - Closed Canopy)
This plant community, further categorized into two subtypes, occurs in both the Highlands and the Piedmont.
The mixed oak forest provides us with an example of the devastating change in character wrought by a single
source, in this case the Chestnut blight. At one time the largest deciduous tree of the northeast, the American
Chestnut no longer dominates this plant community but rather exists for an abbreviated time as a young
sapling.
MIXED OAK-HARDWOOD FOREST SUBTYPE - (COOL/MOIST) e.g., northern and eastern facing
slopes and ravines.
Dominant Trees:
Oak, Black
Oak, Red
Oak, White
Tulip tree
Common Trees:
Ash, White Cherry, Black Maple, Sugar
Basswood Linden, American Sourgum
Beech, American Maple, Red Tupelo, Black
Birch, Sweet
Common Shrubs/Vines:
Blueberry Hornbeam, American Spicebush
Dogwood, Flowering Mountain Laurel Viburnum, Maple-leaved
Greenbrier Pinxter-Flower Virginia Creeper
Hophornbeam Poison Ivy Wild Grape
MIXED OAK FOREST SUBTYPE - (DRY) e.g., southern and western facing slopes and on level areas
overlying the shallow soils of the red-shaled Piedmont.
Dominant Trees:
Oak, Black
Oak, Scarlet
Oak, White
Common Trees: Birch, Sweet Hickory, Mockernut Maple, Sugar
Ash, White Dogwood, Flowering Hickory, Shagbark Chestnut Oak
Beech, American Hickory, Bitternut Hophornbeam Sassafras
Maple, Red
Tulip Tree
Common Shrubs/Vines:
Dogwood, Flowering
Mountain Laurel
Viburnum, Maple-leaved
Virginia Creeper
Common Herbs: Fern, Lady Jack-in-the Pulpit
False Solomon's Seal Fern, Marginal Wood Mayapple
Fern, Christmas Fern, Wood Violets
* Allegheny-Vine
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