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A.1716 | EcoArt 2002
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Name: A.1716
Reference: EcoArt 2002
Description: This alliance contains aquatic ruderal vegetation dominated by the exotic pest plant ~Eichhornia crassipes$, which can withstand brief periods of freezing. This alliance is primarily limited to tropical Florida, but extends northwards into temperate peninsular and Panhandle Florida. It also occurs sparadically along the Texas coast. The hydrology of these sites is usually permanently or semipermanently flooded, although periodic drying can occur. Other species sometimes occur intermixed with ~Eichhornia$. The more permanent mats may develop a substantial additional flora, including ~Habenaria repens$. Growth rates are very high, and mats can double in size in 11-18 days. Floating or rooted (by stranding) aquatic vegetation in slow-moving or stagnant, usually eutrophic water of lakes, ponds and rivers, dominated by ~Eichhornia crassipes$, and often essentially monospecific. 
Accession Code: VB.CC.1464.A1716
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.C.1.N.a
  • This Community's Level: Alliance
  • This Community's Children: [none]
Names:   Scientific: EICHHORNIA CRASSIPES PERMANENTLY FLOODED HERBACEOUS ALLIANCE
  Code: A.1716
  Common: Common Water-hyacinth Permanently Flooded Herbaceous Alliance
(convergence) and Synonyms:
(undetermined) Eichhornia crassipes Permanently Flooded Herbaceous Alliance