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Borrichia frutescens / (Spartina patens, Juncus roemerianus) Shrubland | Southeastern Ecology Working Gro...
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Name: Borrichia frutescens / (Spartina patens, Juncus roemerianus) Shrubland
Reference: Southeastern Ecology Working Gro...
Description: This association includes upper marsh edges and flats strongly dominated by <i>Borrichia frutescens</i>, ranging in size from narrow bands to flats in excess of 500 ha. It is broadly described to include vegetation ranging from the Mid- and South Atlantic Coast to the West Gulf Coast of the United States.Other characteristic species may include <i>Spartina patens, Iva frutescens</i>, and <i>Limonium carolinianum</i>. In Texas, the composition of this low-diversity, irregularly tidally flooded shrubland is variable and can include <i>Distichlis spicata, Schoenoplectus robustus, Sporobolus virginicus, Monanthochloe littoralis, Atriplex matamorensis</i> (in south Texas), <i>Sarcocornia pacifica, Limonium carolinianum, Lycium carolinianum var. quadrifidum, Rayjacksonia phyllocephala, Prosopis reptans</i> (in south Texas), and <i>Batis maritima</i>. Here, this community often occurs just above the lower tidal flat communities ~<i>Batis maritima - Sarcocornia pacifica</i> Dwarf-shrubland (CEGL003956)$$ or ~<i>Sarcocornia pacifica - (Batis maritima, Distichlis spicata)</i> Dwarf-shrubland (CEGL002278)$$.<br /><br />This shrubland usually occurs as a very narrow band adjacent and below tidal shrublands. Two large examples of this association at Fort Pulaski, Georgia, are extensive enough to map and occur on tidal flats adjacent the extensive salt marsh communities of eastern Cockspur Island. Typically this community is monospecific, being made up almost exclusively of <i>Borrichia frutescens</i>. 
Accession Code: VB.CC.36295.CEGL003924
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: Seaside-tansy Tidal Shrub Flat
  Translated: Bushy Seaside-tansy / (Saltmeadow Cordgrass, Black Needlerush) Shrubland
  Scientific: Borrichia frutescens / (Spartina patens, Juncus roemerianus) Shrubland
  Code: CEGL003924
  UID: ELEMENT_GLOBAL.2.687750 NatureServe ExplorerNatureServe Explorer logo