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Name: Picea sitchensis / Trisetum canescens Forest
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Description: This linear floodplain community occurs on middle fluvial benches along rivers of coastal British Columbia. These sites may occur at elevations from 0 to 600 m along rivers that flood annually and have prolonged elevated water tables during the growing season. This plant community has a moderately open canopy dominated by <i>Picea sitchensis</i>, poorly developed shrub layer dominated by regenerating conifers, a species-rich herb layer, and a well-developed moss layer with mixed feathermosses and leafy mosses. <i>Tsuga heterophylla</i> commonly occurs with moderate cover, and <i>Alnus rubra</i> is consistently present, usually with low cover. Regenerating conifers, such as <i>Tsuga heterophylla</i> and <i>Picea sitchensis</i>, are typically in the shrub layer as are <i>Rubus spectabilis</i> and sometimes <i>Vaccinium parvifolium</i> at low cover. The herb layer is species-rich with numerous fern, graminoid and lily species but none with very high constancy. A moderate to high cover of <i>Elymus hirsutus</i> with moderate cover of <i>Trisetum canescens</i> are usually present, with low to moderate cover of <i>Athyrium filix-femina, Osmorhiza purpurea</i>, and <i>Gymnocarpium dryopteris</i>. <i>Hylocomium splendens</i> dominates the high bryophyte cover, along with low to moderate amounts of <i>Rhytidiadelphus loreus</i> and <i>Conocephalum salebrosum (= Conocephalum conicum)</i>. 
Accession Code: VB.CC.37352.CEGL002824
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: Sitka Spruce / Tall Trisetum Forest
  Scientific: Picea sitchensis / Trisetum canescens Forest
  Code: CEGL002824
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