Chestnut Oak Woodland These Plants Are Frequently Found in This Community Type

Characteristic Plants Chestnut Oak Woodland These plants are frequently found in this community type. Those with an asterisk are State Rank S1 often diagnostic of this community. Diagnostics Canopy Community Description These woodlands (25 to 65% canopy Black cherry This partial canopy woodland type cover) are dominated by chestnut oak. Chestnut oak* is dominated by chestnut oak in Red maple association with other oak species, Similar Types Red oak white pine, and rarely shagbark Other hardwood forest types are White oak hickory. The sapling layer typically dominated by trees other than chestnut White pine includes small oaks as well as various oak. Chestnut Oak Woodland Sapling/shrub shrub species. Beneath the trees, a Black huckleberry hardwood trees and shrubs. The mixture of low heath shrubs and herbs Conservation, Wildlife, and Maple-leaved viburnum suppression of fire could therefore covers much of the ground surface, Management Considerations Meadowsweet result in the gradual conversion of these with some bare rock patches. Bracken The single documented site in Maine Shadbush woodlands to a more mesic oak-pine fern and lowbush blueberry are most is in public ownership, with attention Witch-hazel type. In Maine, chestnut oak does not common. Bryoids are virtually absent. given to conserving this rare type. In Dwarf Shrub seem to regenerate well under its own Chestnut Oak Woodland other parts of the range of this type, Lowbush blueberry* canopy. Soil and Site Characteristics fire appears to have played a role in Velvet-leaf blueberry These woodlands occupy dry ridges preventing the invasion of fire sensitive Herb Mature occurrences of this type offer and south facing slopes on thin, Bracken fern* excellent potential sites for cavity excessively well drained and stony Common hairgrass Location Map dwellers such as the southern flying soils. Known sites are in extreme Partridgeberry squirrel. southern Maine only, on granite- Rough-leaved ricegrass Wild-oats syenite bedrock. Distribution Wintergreen Characteristic of the Eastern Broadleaf Woodland sedge Forest Province, extending southward and southwestward from Maine and Bryoid only barely reaching into the state. Hair cap moss Associated Rare Plants Landscape Pattern: Small to Large Patch in Maine; matrix-forming further south. Chestnut oak Flowering dogwood

Examples on Conservation Associated Rare Animals Lands You Can Visit Red-winged sallow • Mt Agamenticus – York Co. Whip-poor-will

Red Oak Twig with Acorns Maine Natural Areas Program