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A.1699 | EcoArt 2002
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Name: A.1699
Reference: EcoArt 2002
Description: This alliance is found in and near running water of small streams, seeps, wet meadows, and springs in the mountains of Colorado. Elevations range from 3200-3800 m. The substrate is saturated to the surface for extended periods during the growing season. Soils range from mineral, thin and skeletal to loess with high organic matter accumulation. Occasionally stands are located in small openings of forested creeks, with ~Abies lasiocarpa - Picea engelmannii$ forests on adjacent streambanks. ~Cardamine cordifolia$ dominates the forb layer with at least 60% cover. Other forbs that can codominate include ~Mertensia ciliata, Senecio triangularis, Caltha leptosepala$, or ~Epilobium anagallidifolium$. Other commonly present forbs include ~Saxifraga odontoloma, Mitella pentandra, Oxypolis fendleri, Delphinium barbeyi$, and ~Epilobium hornemannii$. The graminoid layer is not well represented. The nonvascular stratum can include ~Philonotis tomentella$ and ~Bryum$ sp. ~Salix planifolia$ and ~Salix brachycarpa$ shrublands occur above and below, along broader, less steep reaches. 
Accession Code: VB.CC.1447.A1699
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.f
  • This Community's Level: Alliance
  • This Community's Children: [none]
Names:   Scientific: CARDAMINE CORDIFOLIA SATURATED HERBACEOUS ALLIANCE
  Code: A.1699
  Common: Large Mountain Bittercress Saturated Herbaceous Alliance
(convergence) and Synonyms:
(undetermined) Cardamine cordifolia Saturated Herbaceous Alliance