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Carex aquatilis - Dulichium arundinaceum Herbaceous Vegetation | Fleming, G. P., and P. P. Coulli...
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Name: Carex aquatilis - Dulichium arundinaceum Herbaceous Vegetation
Reference: Fleming, G. P., and P. P. Coulli...
Description: This community is known from a single site (Green Pond) at Big Levels in Augusta County, Virginia. Green Pond is a 0.4-hectare (one acre) natural ridge crest depression located at 976 m (3203 feet) elevation on the summit of the Blue Ridge. It is situated where the local, ridge-forming Antietam quartzite has weathered through to the predominantly carbonate Shady Formation. The pond retains shallow water continuously in most years and has a dense substrate of reddish, poorly-decomposed, root-rich peat. The vegetation of Green Pond is a floristically depauperate herbaceous wetland dominated by Carex aquatilis and, to a lesser extent, by Dulichium arundinaceum. The only other species occurring here are Vaccinium macrocarpon, Juncus canadensis, Triadenum virginicum, a few seedlings of Cephalanthus occidentalis, and an unidentified Utricularia sp. 
Accession Code: VB.CC.25020.CAREXAQUATILISD
Plot-observations of this Community Concept: 0
      Party Perspective according to: NatureServe (organization)
Perspective from: 01-Jun-2001 to: 17-Nov-2014
      Names:   Translated: Aquatic Sedge - Threeway Sedge Herbaceous Vegetation
  UID: ELEMENT_GLOBAL.2.687830 NatureServe ExplorerNatureServe Explorer logo
  Code: CEGL008542
  Scientific: Carex aquatilis - Dulichium arundinaceum Herbaceous Vegetation
  Common: Montane Herbaceous Pond (Water Sedge - Threeway Sedge Type)
(convergence) and Synonyms:
(undetermined) Carex aquatilis - Dulichium arundinaceum Herbaceous Vegetation