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A.1651 | EcoArt 2002
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Name: A.1651
Reference: EcoArt 2002
Description: This vegetation occurs in alpine fell-fields in the Medicine Bow Mountains of Wyoming. Elevation is approximately 3300 m. Stands occur on ridges, and are exposed to extreme, desiccating winds. Snow cover is mostly scoured away by these winds resulting in a very dry habitat. Substrates are rocky, shallow sandy loams derived from parent materials of a complex of gneiss, schist, and granitic rocks. The plants grow in between the exposed surface rocks forming a sparse herbaceous layer dominated by the cushion plants ~Phlox pulvinata, Paronychia pulvinata, Trifolium dasyphyllum, Minuartia obtusiloba$, and the graminoids ~Carex rupestris var. drummondiana$ and ~Festuca campestris$. 
Accession Code: VB.CC.1407.A1651
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:   Scientific: PHLOX PULVINATA HERBACEOUS ALLIANCE
  Code: A.1651
  Common: Cushion Phlox Herbaceous Alliance
(convergence) and Synonyms:
(undetermined) Phlox pulvinata Herbaceous Alliance