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Asplenium ruta-muraria - Pellaea atropurpurea Sparse Vegetation | Southeastern Ecology Working Gro...
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Name: Asplenium ruta-muraria - Pellaea atropurpurea Sparse Vegetation
Reference: Southeastern Ecology Working Gro...
Description: This community includes calcareous cliffs associated with limestone or dolomite geology in Alabama, Kentucky, Maryland, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia, and may possibly range into South Carolina. It has little vegetative cover, often with 90% of the rock surface unvegetated. Mosses and lichens can have moderate coverage, and vascular plants occur on ledges and rooted in cracks. Calciphilic herbs, such as Asplenium ruta-muraria, Pellaea atropurpurea, Pellaea glabella ssp. glabella, Asplenium resiliens, Aquilegia canadensis, are characteristic. Moister microhabitats of the crevice may have mosses such as Anomodon rostratus and Anomodon attenuatus. This community includes dry to rather moist limestone and dolomite outcrops, usually shaded by trees rooted in adjacent forested communities. 
Accession Code: VB.CC.26546.ASPLENIUMRUTAMU
Plot-observations of this Community Concept: 0
      Party Perspective according to: NatureServe (organization)
Perspective from: 01-Jun-1996 to: 17-Nov-2014
      Names:   Translated: Wall-rue - Purple Cliffbrake Sparse Vegetation
  UID: ELEMENT_GLOBAL.2.688984 NatureServe ExplorerNatureServe Explorer logo
  Code: CEGL004476
  Scientific: Asplenium ruta-muraria - Pellaea atropurpurea Sparse Vegetation
  Common: Montane Cliff (Calcareous Type)
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(undetermined) Asplenium ruta-muraria - Pellaea atropurpurea Sparse Vegetation