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Carex duriuscula Herbaceous Vegetation | Western Ecology Working Group of...
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Name: Carex duriuscula Herbaceous Vegetation Reference: Western Ecology Working Group of... Description: This herbaceous association is abundant in foothills and mountain slopes of the southern Rocky Mountains, on mesatops in adjacent dry plains, and may be more widespread in the Great Plains and western North America. Elevation ranges from 1200 to 2500 m (occasionally up to 3000 m). Stands occur in open parks on mesas in plains near mountain fronts and in foothill and montane zones on flat or gentle slopes with coarse-textured soil. This is also one of the early communities to develop on "rock-wash" alluvial fans that exit from canyons. Substrates are rapidly drained silty clay loams to coarse sandy and gravelly soil (granitic) lacking humus, often with moderate to high cover of large and small rocks and low cover of bare ground. Vegetation is characterized by an open to moderately dense graminoid layer dominated by <i>Carex duriuscula</i>. <i>Poa secunda</i> may codominate in the graminoid layer. Other associated graminoids can include <i>Elymus elymoides, Festuca saximontana, Hesperostipa comata, Koeleria macrantha, Poa fendleriana</i>, and the introduced species <i>Poa palustris</i>. Commonly occurring forbs include <i>Achillea millefolium, Artemisia campestris, Artemisia frigida, Cryptantha virgata, Gaillardia aristata</i>, and <i>Tetraneuris torreyana</i>, and the cacti <i>Opuntia polyacantha</i>. Scattered dwarf-shrub <i>Krascheninnikovia lanata</i> may provide low cover. <i>Selaginella densa</i> is common, and lichens are important on the soil surface, sometimes providing abundant cover (about 25%).  Accession Code: VB.CC.33964.CEGL001874 Plot-observations of this Community Concept: 0
	Party Perspective according to: NatureServe (organization) Perspective from: 17-Nov-2014 to: 01-May-2019
	status: accepted This Community's Level: association This Community's Children: [none]		Names:   UID: ELEMENT_GLOBAL.2.683190 NatureServe Explorer   Translated: Needleleaf Sedge Herbaceous Vegetation   Scientific: Carex duriuscula Herbaceous Vegetation   Code: CEGL001874   Common: Sedge Wet Meadow