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Bothriochloa barbinodis - Chloris pluriflora Herbaceous Vegetation | Southeastern Ecology Working Gro...
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Name: Bothriochloa barbinodis - Chloris pluriflora Herbaceous Vegetation
Reference: Southeastern Ecology Working Gro...
Description: This community, found in the southern Gulf Coast Prairies and Marshes and Tamaulipan Thornscrub ecoregions, is a midgrass grassland dominated by <i>Chloris pluriflora</i> and <i>Bothriochloa barbinodis</i>. Other herbaceous species include <i>Bouteloua</i> spp., <i>Setaria</i> spp., <i>Pappophorum bicolor, Buchloe dactyloides, Hilaria belangeri, Chloris crinita</i>, and <i>Heteropogon contortus</i>. Most examples of this community type have become shrub-dominated due to lack of prescribed burning. This community naturally occurred as an open matrix of midgrass species within native mesquite - acacia shrublands dominated by <i>Prosopis glandulosa, Acacia farnesiana</i>, and <i>Acacia rigidula</i>. This community once occupied uplands in the South Texas Plains and ranged into Mexico. It has been virtually eliminated due to conversion to tame pasture or cropland, or due to lack of burning. The few remaining examples are in private ownership and are highly disturbed because of overgrazing and brush clearing. 
Accession Code: VB.CC.36326.CEGL002236
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: Cane Bluestem - Rhodesgrass Mixedgrass Prairie
  Translated: Cane Bluestem - Multi-flower Rhodesgrass Herbaceous Vegetation
  Scientific: Bothriochloa barbinodis - Chloris pluriflora Herbaceous Vegetation
  Code: CEGL002236
  UID: ELEMENT_GLOBAL.2.689966 NatureServe ExplorerNatureServe Explorer logo