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A.1483 | EcoArt 2002
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Name: A.1483
Reference: EcoArt 2002
Description: This alliance consists of irregularly tidally flooded marshes dominated by ~Spartina spartinae$. Examples of this alliance are known from the Gulf Coast of Texas to the Florida Keys, with the exception of Louisiana. It could extend south into Mexico, and could possibly exist in the Chenier Plain of Louisiana. It occurs in areas that are generally somewhat hypersaline from evaporation of seawater after storm surges or exceptionally high tides. It is distinguished from non-tidal (and usually taller) inland ~Spartina spartinae$ marshes, placed in V.A.5.N.k ~~Spartina spartinae$ Seasonally Flooded Herbaceous Alliance (A.1391)$$. Other species present can include ~Monanthochloe littoralis, Sporobolus virginicus, Suaeda linearis, Batis maritima, Borrichia frutescens$, and ~Distichlis spicata$. 
Accession Code: VB.CC.1256.A1483
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.n
  • This Community's Level: Alliance
  • This Community's Children: [none]
Names:   Scientific: SPARTINA SPARTINAE TIDAL HERBACEOUS ALLIANCE
  Code: A.1483
  Common: Gulf Cordgrass Tidal Herbaceous Alliance
(convergence) and Synonyms:
(undetermined) Spartina spartinae Tidal Herbaceous Alliance