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Pseudotsuga menziesii - Tsuga heterophylla - Thuja plicata / Chimaphila umbellata / Rhytidiopsis robusta Forest |
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Name: Pseudotsuga menziesii - Tsuga heterophylla - Thuja plicata / Chimaphila umbellata / Rhytidiopsis robusta Forest
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Description: This matrix forest community occurs on a variety of mesic to submesic sites with medium to poor soil-nutrient regimes within submaritime and subcontinental areas of southwestern British Columbia at elevations of 0 to 1350 m. It occurs on gentle to steep slopes on all slope positions and all aspects. This coniferous forest plant community has moderately open to closed forest canopies, a poorly developed shrub layer with scattered regenerating conifers and other shrubs, a poorly developed herb layer with scattered forbs, and a moderately well-developed moss layer dominated by feathermosses, particularly <i>Hylocomium splendens</i>. The moderately open to closed canopy is characterized by a high cover of <i>Pseudotsuga menziesii</i> and <i>Tsuga heterophylla</i> with moderate cover of <i>Thuja plicata</i>. The poorly developed shrub layer has low cover of regenerating <i>Thuja plicata</i> and <i>Tsuga heterophylla</i> with low cover of <i>Paxistima myrsinites</i> and <i>Vaccinium membranaceum</i>. The poorly developed herb layer has low cover of <i>Chimaphila umbellata</i> and <i>Linnaea borealis</i> with very low cover of <i>Goodyera oblongifolia, Pyrola asarifolia</i>, and <i>Orthilia secunda</i>. The moderately well-developed moss layer is characterized by high cover of <i>Hylocomium splendens</i> with low to moderate cover of <i>Rhytidiopsis robusta, Pleurozium schreberi</i>, and <i>Rhytidiadelphus triquetrus</i>. 
Accession Code: VB.CC.37350.CEGL002828
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:   Translated: Douglas-fir - Western Hemlock - Western red-cedar / Pipsissewa / Pipecleaner Moss Forest
  Scientific: Pseudotsuga menziesii - Tsuga heterophylla - Thuja plicata / Chimaphila umbellata / Rhytidiopsis robusta Forest
  Code: CEGL002828
  UID: ELEMENT_GLOBAL.2.787585 NatureServe ExplorerNatureServe Explorer logo