Editing Nyssa sylvatica (section)

==Distribution and habitat==
''Nyssa sylvatica'' grows in various uplands and in alluvial stream bottoms from southwestern [[Maine]] and [[New York (state)|New York]], to extreme southern [[Ontario]], central [[Michigan]], [[Illinois]], and central [[Missouri]], south to southern Florida, eastern [[Texas]], and eastern [[Oklahoma]].<ref>[http://www.fs.fed.us/database/feis/plants/tree/nyssyl/all.html Coladonato, Milo 1992. ''Nyssa sylvatica''. In: Fire Effects Information System, &#91;Online&#93;. U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, Fire Sciences Laboratory.] Retrieved 2012-09-30.</ref> Optimum development is made on lower slopes and terraces in the [[Southeastern United States]].<ref name="Black Tupelo">[http://www.na.fs.fed.us/pubs/silvics_manual/volume_2/nyssa/silvatica.htm “Black Tupelo”] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101207005620/http://www.na.fs.fed.us/pubs/silvics_manual/volume_2/nyssa/silvatica.htm |date=2010-12-07 }} US Forest Service. Retrieved 2012-09-30.</ref> It also occurs locally in the mountains of eastern and southern [[Mexico]], where it is found in the southern [[Sierra Madre Oriental]] and [[Sierra Madre de Oaxaca]] of Hidalgo, Puebla, and Veracruz states and the [[Chiapas Highlands]] of Chiapas.<ref name="redlist">Mario González-Espinosa, Jorge A. Meave, Francisco G. Lorea-Hernández, Guillermo Ibarra-Manríquez and Adrian C. Newton, eds (2011). ''The Red List of Mexican Cloud Forest Trees''. Fauna & Flora International, Cambridge, UK. 2011. {{ISBN|9781903703281}}</ref>

''Nyssa sylvatica'' is found in a wide range of climates, including [[Highland|upland]] and [[wetland]] [[habitat]]s, in its extensive range. It commonly grows in both the creek bottoms of the southern coastal plains, to altitudes of about {{convert|900|m|ft|abbr=on}} in the [[Appalachian Mountains|Southern Appalachians]].<!---Elevation range in Mexico?---> These trees grow best on well-drained, light-textured soils on the low ridges of second bottoms and on the high flats of silty alluvium. In the uplands it grows best on the loams and clay loams of lower slopes and coves.

The species occurs in 35 different forest cover types.<ref name="Black Tupelo" /> When found on drier upper slopes and ridges, it is seldom of log size or quality.<ref name="Black Tupelo" /><!---But of log size in richer habitats?--->

In Mexico it is a common species in montane [[cloud forest]]s, particularly in moist or riparian habitats, between {{Convert|1,000 and 2,200|m|abbr=on}} in elevation.<ref name="redlist" />