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A.1655 | EcoArt 2002
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Name: A.1655
Reference: EcoArt 2002
Description: Stands included in this alliance are limited to seasonally wet subalpine meadows on the northern and western sides of Mount Rainier, Washington. Elevation is approximately 1900 m. Sites are flat and have poor drainage. Soils are wet in early spring after snowmelt and then dry out completely later in the summer. Parent material is andesite. Forbs or a mixture of forbs and dwarf-shrubs dominate the vegetation. ~Tauschia stricklandii$ is always dominant or codominant. ~Vaccinium deliciosum$ is common and typically codominant. ~Ranunculus eschscholtzii, Oreostemma alpigenum (= Aster alpigenus), Carex spectabilis, Claytonia lanceolata$, and ~Antennaria lanata$ are also frequently present. Moss and lichen cover is typically nearly continuous in spaces between vascular plants (70-80%). 
Accession Code: VB.CC.1411.A1655
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: TAUSCHIA STRICKLANDII HERBACEOUS ALLIANCE
  Code: A.1655
  Common: Strickland's Umbrella-wort Herbaceous Alliance
(convergence) and Synonyms:
(undetermined) Tauschia stricklandii Herbaceous Alliance