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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. This community includes dry to rather moist limestone and dolomite outcrops, usually shaded by trees rooted in adjacent forested communities. It has little vegetative cover, often with 90% of the rock surface unvegetated. Mosses and lichens can have moderate coverage; vascular plants occur on ledges and rooted in cracks. Calciphilic herbs such as <i>Asplenium ruta-muraria, Pellaea atropurpurea, Pellaea glabella ssp. glabella, Asplenium resiliens, Aquilegia canadensis</i> are characteristic. Moister microhabitats of the crevice may have mosses such as <i>Anomodon rostratus</i> and <i>Anomodon attenuatus</i>. 
Accession Code: VB.CC.36168.CEGL004476
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:   Common: Montane Cliff (Calcareous Type)
  Translated: Wall-rue - Purple Cliffbrake Sparse Vegetation
  Scientific: Asplenium ruta-muraria - Pellaea atropurpurea Sparse Vegetation
  Code: CEGL004476
  UID: ELEMENT_GLOBAL.2.688984 NatureServe ExplorerNatureServe Explorer logo