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Carex interior - Carex lurida - Andropogon gerardii - Parnassia grandifolia Herbaceous Vegetation | Midwestern Ecology Working Group...
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Name: Carex interior - Carex lurida - Andropogon gerardii - Parnassia grandifolia Herbaceous Vegetation Reference: Midwestern Ecology Working Group... Description: This prairie fen community type is found in the Ozarks region of the United States. Stands occur on the valley terraces of larger streams and rivers. Soils are moist to wet, and seasonally saturated by calcareous internal groundwater seepage. Soils are muck or mucky peat, alkaline (pH above 6.5), and shallow (40-100 cm), or, locally, very shallow with gravel at the surface. The parent material is a gravelly alluvium or colluvium over dolomite bedrock. The bedrock strata are detectable. Fires are possible in some of the larger fens. A mix of tallgrass and herbaceous calciphiles dominate the vegetation. Scattered shrubs may occur. Dominant graminoids include Andropogon gerardii, Sorghastrum nutans, and Spartina pectinata. Other characteristic graminoids include Carex interior, Carex lurida and Panicum virgatum. Characteristic forbs include Castilleja coccinea, Helianthus grosseserratus, Helianthus mollis, Lysimachia quadriflora, Lythrum alatum, Oxypolis rigidior, Pycnanthemum tenuifolium, Pycnanthemum virginianum, Rudbeckia fulgida var. umbrosa, Silphium integrifolium, Silphium terebinthinaceum, and Veronicastrum virginicum. More rarely, Platanthera leucophaea may occur.  Accession Code: VB.CC.24264.CAREXINTERIORCA Plot-observations of this Community Concept: 0
	Party Perspective according to: NatureServe (organization) Perspective from: 26-Nov-1997 to: 17-Nov-2014
	status: accepted Community's Parent: Carex lurida - Carex leptalea - (Carex atlantica, Carex interior, Parnassia grandifolia) Saturated Herbaceous Alliance This Community's Level: Association This Community's Children: [none]		Names:   Translated: Inland Sedge - Sallow Sedge - Big Bluestem - Largeleaf Grass-of-Parnassus Herbaceous Vegetation   UID: ELEMENT_GLOBAL.2.687700 NatureServe Explorer   Code: CEGL002416   Scientific: Carex interior - Carex lurida - Andropogon gerardii - Parnassia grandifolia Herbaceous Vegetation   Common: Ozark Prairie Fen (convergence) and Synonyms: (undetermined) Carex interior - Carex lurida - Andropogon gerardii - Parnassia grandifolia Herbaceous Vegetation