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A.1627 | EcoArt 2002
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Name: A.1627
Reference: EcoArt 2002
Description: These herbaceous communities are found scattered in alpine fell-field environments in the mountains of central Idaho. They are typically found on small, gently sloped ridgecrest sites between approximately 3170-3355 m elevation. Some sites resemble stabilized talus more than fell-field. Substrates are rocky, poorly developed with little soil development. Stands have a sparse herbaceous layer of low-growing, prostrate, mat-forming forb species and a few graminoids that grow between the exposed rocks. ~Ivesia gordonii$ is dominant or codominant with ~Eriogonum caespitosum$ or ~Minuartia obtusiloba$. Associated species may include ~Agoseris glauca, Minuartia obtusiloba (= Arenaria obtusiloba), Eriogonum ovalifolium, Oxytropis parryi, Poa cusickii ssp. epilis (= Poa epilis), Potentilla diversifolia, Phlox pulvinata, Smelowskia calycina$, and ~Trisetum spicatum$. The moss ~Selaginella densa$ is often present. 
Accession Code: VB.CC.1380.A1627
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.B.2.N.b
  • This Community's Level: Alliance
  • This Community's Children: [none]
Names:   Code: A.1627
  Scientific: IVESIA GORDONII HERBACEOUS ALLIANCE
  Common: Alpine Mousetail Herbaceous Alliance
(convergence) and Synonyms:
(undetermined) Ivesia gordonii Herbaceous Alliance