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A.1309 | EcoArt 2002
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Name: A.1309
Reference: EcoArt 2002
Description: Vegetation types within this short alpine or subalpine sod grassland alliance can occur on open, sunny, wet places in spruce-fir or alpine zones. Elevations range 1800-4200 m. Sites can range from moderately wide (25 m), gently sloping, glaciated, snowmelt alpine basins, to moist lakeshores and solifluction terraces below snowpatches and shallow marshes in the Indian Peaks Wilderness, to wet meadows in Nevada. The soils are skeletal with low organic matter accumulation, low clay content and low available moisture. ~Carex vernacula$ dominates the graminoid layer with up to 45% cover. ~Poa fendleriana$ or ~Deschampsia caespitosa$ often codominate. ~Caltha leptosepala$ and ~Rhodiola rhodantha (= Sedum rhodanthum)$ are the only forbs of significance in the Colorado stands. ~Monolepis nuttalliana$ and ~Phlox$ sp. exhibit fair cover (18%). ~Philonotis fontana var. pumila (= Philonotis tomentella)$ dominates the moss layer in the Indian Peak Wilderness stands. 
Accession Code: VB.CC.1081.A1309
Plot-observations of this Community Concept: 0
      Party Perspective according to: NatureServe (organization)
Perspective from: 26-Nov-1997 to: 17-Mar-2005
     
  • status: accepted
  • Community's Parent: V.A.5.N.g
  • This Community's Level: Alliance
  • This Community's Children: [none]
Names:   Scientific: CAREX VERNACULA HERBACEOUS ALLIANCE
  Code: A.1309
  Common: Native Sedge Herbaceous Alliance
(convergence) and Synonyms:
(undetermined) Carex vernacula Herbaceous Alliance