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Ammophila breviligulata - (Schizachyrium scoparium) Herbaceous Vegetation | Midwestern Ecology Working Group...
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Name: Ammophila breviligulata - (Schizachyrium scoparium) Herbaceous Vegetation Reference: Midwestern Ecology Working Group... Description: This beachgrass dune community occurs along the Great Lakes shores region of the United States and Canada on stabilized foredunes. Component plant communities vary from sparsely vegetated, active dunes to communities dominated by grasses, shrubs, and trees, depending on the degree of sand deposition, sand erosion, and distance from the lake. Depositional areas, where Great Lakes beachgrass foredunes are found, are dominated by Ammophila breviligulata (or in the eastern part of the range Ammophila champlainensis); erosional areas, such as slacks in blowouts and dune fields, by Calamovilfa longifolia; and stabilized areas by Schizachyrium scoparium. In dune fields and on the most stable dune ridges, especially around northern Lake Michigan and Lake Huron, low evergreen shrubs (Arctostaphylos uva-ursi, Juniperus communis, Juniperus horizontalis) occupy dune crests and also the ground layer in the savanna edge of dunes; elsewhere, deciduous shrubs are dominant, including Prunus pumila, Salix cordata and Salix myricoides (= Salix glaucophylloides). These two shrubby phases are separated from this open grassland type, but could be treated as phases of this type.  Accession Code: VB.CC.25394.AMMOPHILABREVIL 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: Ammophila breviligulata Herbaceous Alliance This Community's Level: Association This Community's Children: [none]		Names:   Translated: American Beachgrass - (Little Bluestem) Herbaceous Vegetation   UID: ELEMENT_GLOBAL.2.688169 NatureServe Explorer   Code: CEGL005098   Scientific: Ammophila breviligulata - (Schizachyrium scoparium) Herbaceous Vegetation   Common: Great Lakes Beachgrass Dune (convergence) and Synonyms: (undetermined) Ammophila breviligulata - (Schizachyrium scoparium) Herbaceous Vegetation