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Eichhornia crassipes Permanently Flooded Herbaceous Alliance | Southeastern Ecology Working Gro...
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Name: Eichhornia crassipes Permanently Flooded Herbaceous Alliance Reference: Southeastern Ecology Working Gro... Description: This alliance contains aquatic ruderal vegetation dominated by the exotic pest plant Eichhornia crassipes, which can withstand brief periods of freezing. This alliance is primarily limited to tropical Florida, but extends northwards into temperate peninsular and Panhandle Florida. It also occurs sporadically along the Texas coast. The hydrology of these sites is usually permanently or semipermanently flooded, although periodic drying can occur. Other species sometimes occur intermixed with Eichhornia. The more permanent mats may develop a substantial additional flora, including Habenaria repens. Growth rates are very high, and mats can double in size in 11-18 days. Floating or rooted (by stranding) aquatic vegetation in slow-moving or stagnant, usually eutrophic water of lakes, ponds and rivers, dominated by Eichhornia crassipes, and often essentially monospecific.  Accession Code: VB.CC.28461.EICHHORNIACRASS Plot-observations of this Community Concept: 0
	Party Perspective according to: NatureServe (organization) Perspective from: 26-Nov-1997 to: 01-May-2019
	status: accepted This Community's Level: Alliance This Community's Children: [none]		Names:   Scientific: Eichhornia crassipes Permanently Flooded Herbaceous Alliance   Translated: Common Water-hyacinth Permanently Flooded Herbaceous Alliance   UID: HIGHER_CLASS_UNIT.2.125096 NatureServe Explorer   Code: A.1716