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Ruppia maritima Permanently Flooded - Tidal Temperate Herbaceous Alliance | Southeastern Ecology Working Gro...
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Name: Ruppia maritima Permanently Flooded - Tidal Temperate Herbaceous Alliance Reference: Southeastern Ecology Working Gro... 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.21009.RUPPIAMARITIMAP Plot-observations of this Community Concept: 0
	Party Perspective according to: NatureServe (organization) Perspective from: 26-Nov-1997 to: 01-May-2019
	status: accepted This Community's Level: Alliance This Community's Children: [none]		Names:   Scientific: Ruppia maritima Permanently Flooded - Tidal Temperate Herbaceous Alliance   Translated: Beaked Ditch-grass Permanently Flooded - Tidal Temperate Herbaceous Alliance   Code: A.1769   UID: HIGHER_CLASS_UNIT.2.126584 NatureServe Explorer