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A.1769 | EcoArt 2002
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Name: A.1769
Reference: EcoArt 2002
Description: This alliance includes communities of submerged, rooted aquatic vegetation occurring in tidal creeks, pools, and coves with brackish waters. The substrate is often mud-bottomed but may also include sand. Characteristic species include ~Ruppia maritima, Vallisneria americana$, and ~Stuckenia pectinata (= Potamogeton pectinatus)$. This is the most widely distributed seagrass alliance in eastern North America. It ranges around the entire Atlantic and Gulf coasts, from New England to Texas. This vegetation is patchily distributed along the Texas coast, where ~Ruppia maritima$ often occurs mixed with ~Halodule beaudettei$. ~Ruppia maritima$ is the only seagrass capable of growing in freshwater and is therefore often found in the oligohaline to mesohaline upper reaches of estuaries and lower reaches of tidal creeks, bayous and rivers. Because it often behaves as an annual, the distribution and abundance of ~Ruppia maritima$ is often shifting both spatially and temporally. 
Accession Code: VB.CC.1505.A1769
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.2.N.b
  • This Community's Level: Alliance
  • This Community's Children: [none]
Names:   Scientific: RUPPIA MARITIMA PERMANENTLY FLOODED - TIDAL TEMPERATE HERBACEOUS ALLIANCE
  Common: Beaked Ditch-grass Permanently Flooded - Tidal Temperate Herbaceous Alliance
  Code: A.1769
(convergence) and Synonyms:
(undetermined) Ruppia maritima Permanently Flooded - Tidal Temperate Herbaceous Alliance