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A.1447 | EcoArt 2002
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Name: A.1447
Reference: EcoArt 2002
Description: This alliance currently includes a variety of palustrine herbaceous vegetation dominated by ~Cladium mariscoides$ in combination with other grasses and sedges; shrubs typically account for less than 25% cover in these communities. This alliance contains a diversity of vegetation types, with variable species composition. Associations in this alliance include sea-level fens of the mid-Atlantic coast, high-elevation (4200 feet) fens over mafic geology in the Southern Blue Ridge, communities of floodplains, streams, and stream channels in the New Jersey Pine Barrens, certain Coastal Plain pondshore communities in Delaware, and Coastal Plain poor fens in Rhode Island and New York. 
Accession Code: VB.CC.1222.A1447
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: CLADIUM MARISCOIDES SATURATED HERBACEOUS ALLIANCE
  Common: Twig-rush Saturated Herbaceous Alliance
  Code: A.1447
(convergence) and Synonyms:
(undetermined) Cladium mariscoides Saturated Herbaceous Alliance