Login | Datasets | Logout
Jump to... Home PLOT search PLANT search COMMUNITY search Simple search Manage datasets Tutorial About FAQ ------- Site map VegBranch Data dictionary ERD

stdcommconcept2100821008

View Community Concepts - Detail

Ruppia maritima Louisianian Zone Herbaceous Vegetation | Southeastern Ecology Working Gro...
click to update datacart
Name: Ruppia maritima Louisianian Zone Herbaceous Vegetation Reference: Southeastern Ecology Working Gro... Description: This association represents estuarine non-emergent aquatic beds dominated by Ruppia maritima in the Gulf of Mexico. Although Ruppia maritima is widely distributed along the Atlantic Coast of North America, it attains its greatest abundance in the northern Gulf of Mexico from Florida to Texas where it is found in shallow waters from a few inches to 3 feet deep along muddy shores of shallow bays, sounds, and bayous, as well as in low salinity lagoons and ponds on barrier islands. 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. This vegetation is patchily distributed along the upper and middle Texas coast, where Ruppia maritima often occurs mixed with Halodule beaudettei.  Accession Code: VB.CC.21008.RUPPIAMARITIMAL Plot-observations of this Community Concept: 0
	Party Perspective according to: NatureServe (organization) Perspective from: 01-Aug-1996 to: 17-Nov-2014
	status: accepted Community's Parent: Ruppia maritima Permanently Flooded - Tidal Temperate Herbaceous Alliance This Community's Level: Association This Community's Children: [none]		Names:   Translated: Beaked Ditch-grass Louisianian Zone Herbaceous Vegetation   UID: ELEMENT_GLOBAL.2.685310 NatureServe Explorer   Code: CEGL004450   Scientific: Ruppia maritima Louisianian Zone Herbaceous Vegetation   Common: Gulf Coast Beaked Ditch-grass Beds (convergence) and Synonyms: (undetermined) Ruppia maritima Louisianian Zone Herbaceous Vegetation