| Code |
Name | Description |
NC Natural Heritage Program Equivalent |
| 3 | Tidal Marsh
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Fresh and brackish tidal marshes, including cord grass, wild rice, sawgrass and needlerush alliances.
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Brackish Marsh, Interdune pond, Maritime wet grassland
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| 372 | Interdune Herbaceous Wetlands
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Dune swales with permanently flooded to intermittently exposed hydrology. Species composition depends on salinity and can include cut grass, spike-rush, mosquito fern, and hornwort.
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Interdune Pond, Maritime Wet Grasslands
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| 75 | Tidal Swamp Forest
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Swamp tupelo dominated forest with or without black tupelo and/or cypress trees. Restricted to the tidal zones in the coastal plain. May have inclusions of coastal red cedar woodlands.
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Tidal cypress - gum swamp
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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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| 380 | Coastal Plain Fresh Water Emergent
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Emergent vegetation in fresh water seepage bogs, ponds and riverbeds of the coastal plain. Includes alliances dominated by sedges, eelgrass, as well as cane found in unforested cane-brakes.
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Small Depression Pond, Sandhill Seep, Floodplain Pool, Unforested Floodplain Canebrake, Riverscour Prairies, Vernal Pools
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| 173 | Coastal Plain Riverbank Shrubs
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Shrub dominated riverbanks, commonly dominated by willows and/or alders.
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Sand and Mud Bar
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| 50 | Coastal Plain Mixed Bottomland Forests
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Includes forests dominated by a variety of hardwood species, including sweetgum, cottonwood, red maple.
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Coastal Plain Bottomland Hardwood (in part), Coastal Plain Levee Forest
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| 49 | Coastal Plain Oak Bottomland Forest
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Bottomland forests dominated by deciduous oak alliances. Oaks represented can include swamp chestnut, cherrybark, willow, and/or overcup oak. Inclusions of loblolly pine temporarily flooded forests occur in patches. Hydrology is temporarily to seasonally flooded.
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Coastal Plain Bottomland Hardwoods (in part) blackwater subtype, brownwater subtype
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| 158 | Coastal Plain Nonriverine Wet Flat Forests
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Loblolly pine - Atlantic white-cedar - red maple - swamp tupelo saturated forests as well as forests dominated by loblolly, sweetgum, and red maple in non-riverine flats.
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Non-riverine Wet Hardwood Forest
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| 41 | Peatland Atlantic White-Cedar Forest
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Dense stands of Atlantic white cedar with saturated hydrology. Can include swamp tupelo, red maple, and pond pines with a moderate shrub and herb layer.
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Peatland Atlantic White-Cedar Forest
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| 15 | Seepage and Streamhead Swamps
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Includes extensive peat flats in the coastal plain, dominated by swamp tupelo, maples, and Atlantic white cedar alliances. In the sandhills includes streamhead pond pine and bay forests alliances. Saturated hydrology.
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Bay Forest, Small Depression Pocosin, Streamhead Atlantic White Cedar Forest, Streamhead Pocosins
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| 30 | Cypress-Gum Floodplain Forests
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Swamps dominated by black or swamp tupelo with or without Taxodium. Seasonally to semi-permanently flooded hydrology.
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Cypress-Gum Swamps
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| 78 | Pond-Cypress - Gum Swamps, Savannas and Lakeshores
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Cypress dominated swamps and lakeshores. Can include bays dominated by pond cypress or shorelines of coastal plain lakes with a narrow band of cypress.
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Non-riverine Swamp Forest, Natural Lakeshores (in part)
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| 385 | Oak Bottomland Forest and Swamp Forest
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The swamp chestnut oak, cherrybark oak, shumard oak and sweetgum alliance is one representative. Other alliances are dominated by water, willow, and overcup oaks. Swamp forests can be dominated by sweetgum, red maple, and black gum being dominant.
Loblolly can occur in combination with sweetgum and red maple, or with tulip poplar. Includes saturated and semi- to permanently flooded forests in the mountains.
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Piedmont/Mountain Bottomland Forest, Piedmont/Mountain Swamp Forest
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| 87 | Pocosin Woodlands and Shrublands
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Includes pond pine woodland, low pocosin and high pocosin shrub dominated areas. Canebrakes and bay forests may be present.
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Pond Pine Woodlands, Peatland Canebrake, Small Depression Pocosin
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| 67 | Wet Longleaf or Slash Pine Savanna
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Wet flatwoods and pine savannas, typically dominated by longleaf pines, but slash or pond pines may be the dominant pines.
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Wet Pine Flatwoods
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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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| 238 | Piedmont/Mountain Submerged Aquatic Vegetation
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Seasonally to permanently flooded areas with aquatic vegetation. Waterlily, pondweed, hydrilla smartweed are a few of the species that can occur.
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Piedmont/Mountain Semipermanent Impoundment (in part)
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| 239 | Piedmont/Mountain Emergent Vegetation
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Emergent vegetation of all wetland hydrologies. Sites would commonly support species such as tussock sedge, rushs, and cattail alliances.
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Rocky Bar and Shore (in part)
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| 267 | Riverbank Shrublands
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Riverside shrubs with temporarily flooded hydrologies. Found in the both the Mountains and Piedmont. Containing dominants such as smooth alder and a Carolina or black willows.
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Sand and Mud Bar
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| 269 | Floodplain Wet Shrublands
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Saturated shrublands of the Piedmont, includes buttonbush, swamp-loosestrife, decodon and alders.
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Piedmont/mountain Semipermanent Impoundment
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| 384 | Piedmont/Mountain Mixed Bottomland Hardwood Forests
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Includes temporarily to seasonally forests dominated by hardwood species. Hardwoods include sweetgum, red maple, sycamore which co-occur in a mosaic of bottomland and levee positions. Includes alluvial hardwood forests in the mountains. Hemlock and white pine may occur as inclusions, but are generally mapped separately.
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Piedmont/Mountain Alluvial Forest, Piedmont/Mountain Levee Forest
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| 8 | Open water
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Open water without aquatic vegetation.
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No equivalent
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