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Pinus contorta - Chamaecyparis nootkatensis / Racomitrium lanuginosum Woodland |
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Name: Pinus contorta - Chamaecyparis nootkatensis / Racomitrium lanuginosum Woodland
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Description: Located within the Very Wet Hypermaritime Coastal Western Hemlock Subzone (CWHvh) along the windward outer coast from 0 to 600 m above sea level, this community may be found from western and northern Vancouver Island and the mainland coast adjacent to the northern tip of Vancouver Island northward to Portland Canal. Site conditions are very poor upper slopes and crests on granitic or similar nutritionally very poor (acidic) rocky knolls. This is a very low productivity, scrubby, open coniferous woodland community with mainly uneven-aged older successional stages. The leading tree species are <i>Pinus contorta var. contorta</i> and <i>Chamaecyparis nootkatensis (= Callitropsis nootkatensis)</i>, which typically are little more than 10 m tall, and are also distributed throughout the understory shrub layers with some <i>Tsuga heterophylla</i> and <i>Thuja plicata</i>. Characteristic species in the moderately developed low-shrub layer include <i>Juniperus communis, Gaultheria shallon, Vaccinium</i> spp., <i>Menziesia ferruginea, Ledum groenlandicum, Kalmia microphylla</i>, and <i>Elliottia pyroliflorus</i>. The diverse but poorly developed herb layer includes <i>Blechnum spicant, Cornus canadensis, Maianthemum dilatatum, Coptis aspleniifolia, Coptis trifolia, Nephrophyllidium crista-galli (= Fauria crista-galli)</i>, and <i>Trichophorum caespitosum</i>. The diverse, moderately developed moss layer features the ever-present <i>Rhytidiadelphus loreus</i> and <i>Hylocomium splendens</i>, along with <i>Racomitrium lanuginosum, Cladina</i> spp., and <i>Cladonia</i> spp. The distinctive upland rocky knoll habitat with scrubby open woodland and relatively driest soil conditions should be enough to distinguish this community from all others in the CWHvh Subzone. 
Accession Code: VB.CC.37359.CEGL002791
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Perspective from: 17-Nov-2014 to: 01-May-2019
     
  • status: accepted
  • This Community's Level: association
  • This Community's Children: [none]
Names:   Translated: Lodgepole Pine - Alaska-cedar / Woolly Moss Woodland
  Scientific: Pinus contorta - Chamaecyparis nootkatensis / Racomitrium lanuginosum Woodland
  Code: CEGL002791
  UID: ELEMENT_GLOBAL.2.783956 NatureServe ExplorerNatureServe Explorer logo