Login | Datasets | Logout
 

View Community Concepts - Detail

Populus tremuloides / Carex aquatilis var. aquatilis Forest | Western Ecology Working Group of...
  click to update datacart
Name: Populus tremuloides / Carex aquatilis var. aquatilis Forest
Reference: Western Ecology Working Group of...
Description: This is a local wetland forest reported only from northwestern Oregon. It is known from moist, flat basins at moderate elevations in the mountains. Stands have seasonally wet, fine-textured mineral soils with evident mottling in a layer 29 inches below the soil surface. Populus tremuloides is the dominant tree. Picea engelmannii can be a codominant. Pinus contorta may be present with low cover. The understory, which has no shrubs, is dominated by graminoids, with Carex aquatilis var. aquatilis and Calamagrostis canadensis codominant, and Deschampsia caespitosa, Elymus glaucus, Glyceria striata (= Glyceria elata), Carex jonesii, Carex deweyana, and Juncus nevadensis present. Exotics include Phleum pratense and Poa pratensis. Forbs present include Veratrum viride, Pedicularis groenlandica, Symphyotrichum foliaceum (= Aster foliaceus), Canadanthus modestus (= Aster modestus), Senecio serra, and Geum macrophyllum. 
Accession Code: VB.CC.24552.POPULUSTREMULOI
Plot-observations of this Community Concept: 0
      Party Perspective according to: NatureServe (organization)
Perspective from: 21-Oct-2002 to: 17-Nov-2014
      Names:   Translated: Quaking Aspen / Aquatic Sedge Forest
  UID: ELEMENT_GLOBAL.2.688327 NatureServe ExplorerNatureServe Explorer logo
  Code: CEGL003442
  Scientific: Populus tremuloides / Carex aquatilis var. aquatilis Forest
(convergence) and Synonyms:
(undetermined) Populus tremuloides / Carex aquatilis var. aquatilis Forest