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A.963 | EcoArt 2002
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Name: A.963
Reference: EcoArt 2002
Description: Vegetation types within this alliance occur in dry areas in the lower alpine and upper subalpine habitats. They occupy a narrow belt immediately above timberline with a range of elevation from 2590-3810 m. Landforms can include dry, rocky slopes to mesic meadows, typically of early-melting snowpatches. The plant associations within this alliance are specific to well-drained, mineral soils of mesic environments. They occur primarily on protected, low slopes of moderately inclined (20-45%), non-southerly exposed terrain. Sites representing these associations are found on alluvial and colluvial parent materials of granitic, gneiss, and schist origins. The soils originating from these parent materials are Inceptisols. Communities within this alliance are characterized as cold-deciduous, temporarily flooded shrublands. The short-shrub layer is dominated by ~Salix glauca$ with 60-100% cover. The graminoid layer is typically continuous with 25-60% cover and dominated by ~Deschampsia caespitosa$. Other graminoids can include ~Carex heteroneura var. chalciolepis, Festuca brachyphylla$, and ~Trisetum spicatum$. The forb layer is sparse (10-25% cover), consisting of ~Artemisia scopulorum, Castilleja occidentalis, Geum rossii$, and ~Polygonum bistortoides$. Adjacent upslope communities are typically subalpine fir/Engelmann spruce. 
Accession Code: VB.CC.2590.A963
Plot-observations of this Community Concept: 0
      Party Perspective according to: NatureServe (organization)
Perspective from: 26-Nov-1997 to: 17-Mar-2005
     
  • status: accepted
  • Community's Parent: III.B.2.N.d
  • This Community's Level: Alliance
  • This Community's Children: [none]
Names:   Scientific: SALIX GLAUCA TEMPORARILY FLOODED SHRUBLAND ALLIANCE
  Code: A.963
  Common: Gray-leaf Willow Temporarily Flooded Shrubland Alliance
(convergence) and Synonyms:
(undetermined) Salix glauca Temporarily Flooded Shrubland Alliance