Code |
Name | Description |
NC Natural Heritage Program Equivalent |
124 | Maritime Scrubs and Tidal Shrublands
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Coastal shrubs including wax-myrtle, swamp rose, alder, yaupon, and greenbriar.
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Maritime Shrubs, Salt Shrub
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371 | Maritime Grasslands
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Dune grass community consisting of sea oats and beach grasses.
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Dune grass, Maritime dry grassland
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121 | Maritime Pinelands
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Loblolly forests and woodlands of the outer coastal plain.
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Estuarine Fringe Loblolly Pine Forest
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17 | Maritime Forests and Hammocks
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Maritime forests and woodlands dominated by live or sand laurel oak. Estuarine Fringe forests dominated by loblolly pine.
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Coastal Fringe Evergreen Forest, Maritime Deciduous Forest, Maritime Deciduous Forest
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126 | Interdune Wooded Depression Swamp
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Includes swamps dominated by sweetbay and swampbay or dogwood dominated forests.
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Maritime Shrub Swamp, Maritime Swamp Forest
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63 | Coastal Plain Mesic Hardwood Forests
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Beech dominated forests with white oak and northern red oak as possible co-dominants. Dry-mesic to mesic forests on slopes and small stream bottoms in the coastal plain.
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Mesic Mixed Hardwood Forest, Basic Mesic Forests
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138 | Coastal Plain Dry to Dry-Mesic Oak Forests
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Oak dominated forests of the coastal plain. Includes white oak forests with water oak or northern red oak and hickories as co-dominants.
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Dry Mesic Oak Hickory Forest, Basic Oak Hickory Forest, Dry Oak Hickory Forest
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97 | Mesic Longleaf Pine
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Longleaf pine woodlands without a major scrub oak component. Slash or loblolly pines may be present as well.
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Mesic Pine Flatwoods
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42 | Xeric Longleaf Pine
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Sandhills including a range of longleaf pine density from predominantly wiregrass, scrub oak dominated to true longleaf pine woodland. This does not include mesic or saturated flatwood types.
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Xeric Sandhill Scrub, Pine/Scrub Oak Sandhill, Coastal Fringe Sandhill
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46 | Xeric Oak - Pine Forests
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Mixed forest dominated by yellow pines with white or northern red oaks co-dominating.
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Pine Oak Heath
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232 | Xeric Pine-Hardwood Woodlands and Forests
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Mixed forest dominated by yellow pines with drier oaks including southern red, post, and chestnut oaks.
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Dry Oak Hickory Forest
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230 | Piedmont Mesic Forest
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American Beech - Red Oak - White Oak Forests.
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Mesic Mixed Hardwood
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383 | Piedmont Mixed Successional Forest
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Generally loblolly mixed with successional hardwoods. Sweetgum, tulip poplar and red maple are common co-dominants in these successional forests.
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No equivalent
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228 | Piedmont Dry-Mesic Oak and Hardwood Forests
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Primarily oak dominated forests, white oak is often dominant, with co-dominants including . Also represented by sweetgum and tulip poplar dominated forests.
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Dry Mesic Oak Hickory Forest, Basic Oak Hickory Forest, Dry Oak Hickory Forest
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222 | Piedmont Dry-Mesic Pine Forests
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Loblolly dominated forests resulting from succession following clearing. This type occurs on all moisture regimes following disturbance with the exception of the extremely xeric sites.
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No equivalent
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382 | Dry Mesic Oak Pine Forests
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Mixed forests of the coastal plain and piedmont. Includes loblolly pine with white, southern red and/or post oak and loblolly with water oak. On basic sites of the piedmont, eastern red cedar may co-occur with post, black, and blackjack oaks.
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Dry Mesic Oak Hickory Forest, Xeric Hard Pan Forest, Chestnut Oak Forest, Dry Mesic Oak Hickory Forest, Dry Oak Hickory Forest
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220 | Piedmont Xeric Pine Forests
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Dry to xeric pine forests dominated by Virginia pine, shortleaf pine or Eastern Red Cedar.
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Pine Oak Heath
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226 | Piedmont Xeric Woodlands
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Generally post and blackjack oak dominated woodlands. White ash and pignut hickory can be found in combination with Eastern red cedar on glades.
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Xeric Hardpan Forest
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20 | Coniferous Regeneration
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Regenerating pine stands. Predominantly loblolly pine, but slash and longleaf stands occur as well.
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No equivalent
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21 | Coniferous Cultivated Plantation (natural / planted)
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Managed pine plantations, densely planted. Most planted stands are loblolly, but slash and longleaf occur as well.
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No equivalent
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51 | Deciduous Cultivated Plantation
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Planted deciduous trees. Includes sweetgum and sycamore plantations.
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No equivalent
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36 | Successional Deciduous Forests
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Regenerating deciduous trees with a shrub stature. Commonly dominated by sweetgum, tulip poplars and maples.
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No equivalent
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180 | Agricultural Crop Fields
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Farm fields used for row crops.
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No equivalent
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205 | Agricultural Pasture/Hay and Natural Herbaceous
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Farm fields used for pasture grass or hay production, as well as old fields dominated by native and exotic grasses.
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No equivalent
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202 | Residential Urban
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Includes vegetation interspersed in residential areas. Includes lawns, mixed species woodlots, and horticultural shrubs. Vegetation accounts for between 20 - 70% of the cover.
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No equivalent
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522 | Northern Hardwoods
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High Elevation forests including yellow birch, American beech, and yellow buckeye. Includes forests with Hemlock and Yellow Birch.
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Northern Hardwoods Forest, Boulderfield Forest
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523 | Grassy Bald
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High Elevation grassy balds including Pennsylvania sedge, mountain oatgrass, as well as shrubby areas dominated by Alleghany and smooth blackberry.
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Grassy Bald
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524 | Shrub Bald
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Variable phenologies, predominantly evergreen balds with rhododendon and Mountain laurels. Deciduous shrubs including green alder and Alleghany and smooth blackberry are included as well. Red Oak - Chestnut Oak Woodlands may be included in cases
where the density of the woodland species is low and the shrub component is dense.
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Heath Bald
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525 | Appalachian Oak Forest
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A variety of oak forest types including Black, White, Scarlet Oaks in dry to mesic situations. Includes forests historically co-dominated by American Chestnut.
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High Elevation Red Oak Forest, Montane White Oak Forest
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526 | Appalachian Cove Forest
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Mixed Mesophytic forests of the mountains. Includes tuliptree, basswood, yellow buckeye and surgar maple. This class is mapped to include cove forests dominated or co-dominated by hemlock.
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Rich Cove Forest, Acidic Cove Forest
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527 | Appalachian Hemlock
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Upland hemlock forests of the moutains region. Vary from side slopes to steep slope positions.
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Canada Hemlock Forest
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528 | Appalachian Xeric Pine Forest
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Pine forests and woodlands on xeric sites. A variety of pines, including Virginia, Shortleaf, Eastern White Pine, Table Mountain and Pitch pine. Often small areas of dense pine within a matrix of Xeric Oak-Pine Forests.
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Pine Oak Heath
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529 | Appalachian Xeric Mixed Forest
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Mixed forests with Virginia, Shortleaf, Eastern White Pine, Table Mountain and Pitch pines in combination with xeric oak species. Oaks include, white, Southern Red, black, and rock chestnut.
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Pine Oak Heath
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530 | Appalachian Xeric Deciduous Forest
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Deciduous forests in the mountains dominated by Xeric Oak species. Species include, white, Southern red, black, and rock chestnut.
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High Elevation Red Oak Forest, Montane White Oak Forest
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