Name:
A.1880
Reference:
EcoArt 2002
Description:
This alliance includes mostly montane, non-alluvial, palustrine vegetation dominated by shrubs and often, but not always, with substantial ~Sphagnum$ cover. Occurrences of this alliance can have small to moderately large herbaceous openings, as well, but where open herbaceous patches are large and well-developed, communities in V.A.5.N.m. should be considered. Communities in this alliance are saturated shrublands with ~Alnus serrulata$ as a nearly constant component, but many other shrub species are typical and may dominate or codominate, including ~Salix sericea, Salix humilis, Spiraea alba, Spiraea tomentosa, Ilex verticillata, Ilex collina, Ilex montana, Rhododendron catawbiense, Rhododendron maximum, Rhododendron viscosum, Rhododendron arborescens, Lyonia ligustrina var. ligustrina, Kalmia latifolia, Menziesia pilosa, Kalmia carolina, Viburnum nudum var. nudum, Viburnum nudum var. cassinoides, Lonicera canadensis$, and ~Lonicera dioica$. This alliance includes shrub bogs and bogs with well-developed shrub zones, scattered in the southern Blue Ridge, and may possibly extend to the Cumberland Mountains and northern Ridge and Valley.
Accession Code:
VB.CC.1580.A1880
Plot-observations of this Community Concept:
0
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