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A.1435 | EcoArt 2002
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Name: A.1435
Reference: EcoArt 2002
Description: This alliance includes saline grasslands occurring in the lower Rio Grande Valley, characterized by ~Sporobolus wrightii$. This vegetation occurs at the base of many clay dunes (lomas). It may also form a continuous cover on low-elevation lomas with only scattered emergent shrubs. It often grades downward into vegetation dominated by ~Spartina spartinae, Spartina patens, Batis maritima$, or ~Borrichia frutescens$. Other species occurring in this community may include ~Spartina spartinae$ and emergent ~Yucca treculeana$. This grassland occurs on saline clayey substrates at the wetland/upland boundary, and the hydrology is unclear. These grasslands occur with vegetation in the III.A.1.N.c ~~Ebenopsis ebano - Phaulothamnus spinescens$ Shrubland Alliance (A.723)$$. 
Accession Code: VB.CC.1212.A1435
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.m
  • This Community's Level: Alliance
  • This Community's Children: [none]
Names:   Scientific: SPOROBOLUS WRIGHTII SATURATED HERBACEOUS ALLIANCE
  Common: Big Alkali Sacaton Saturated Herbaceous Alliance
  Code: A.1435
(convergence) and Synonyms:
(undetermined) Sporobolus wrightii Saturated Herbaceous Alliance