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A.1331 | EcoArt 2002
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Name: A.1331
Reference: EcoArt 2002
Description: This alliance includes vegetation characterized by ~Sporobolus airoides$, typically in saline or alkaline habitats. In western Texas, communities of this alliance are found in depressions among gypsum ridges and on salt flats at elevations around 1100 m (3600 feet). Associates known from western Texas occurrences include ~Allenrolfea occidentalis, Suaeda suffrutescens, Atriplex canescens, Tamarix ramosissima, Isocoma pluriflora, Hoffmannseggia glauca, Cressa truxillensis, Frankenia jamesii, Tiquilia hispidissima, Dicranocarpus parviflorus, Brickellia eupatorioides var. chlorolepis, Lepidium montanum$, and ~Sphaeralcea hastulata$. The main distribution of this alliance is west of Texas, with associations in Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, Kansas, Montana, and possibly in California. 
Accession Code: VB.CC.1104.A1331
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.i
  • This Community's Level: Alliance
  • This Community's Children: [none]
Names:   Scientific: SPOROBOLUS AIROIDES INTERMITTENTLY FLOODED HERBACEOUS ALLIANCE
  Code: A.1331
  Common: Alkali Sacaton Intermittently Flooded Herbaceous Alliance
(convergence) and Synonyms:
(undetermined) Sporobolus airoides Intermittently Flooded Herbaceous Alliance