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Vaccinium cespitosum - (Salix farriae) / Danthonia intermedia Wet Shrubland | NatureServe Biotics 2019
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Name: Vaccinium cespitosum - (Salix farriae) / Danthonia intermedia Wet Shrubland
Reference: NatureServe Biotics 2019
Description: This short shrubland occurs along the dry transitions of alpine/subalpine wetlands that are associated with meandering streams and fen-shrublands in the western Thompson-Okanogan Plateau (Northeast Cascades). It was sampled at 1784 and 2010 m (5850-6590 feet) elevation in low-gradient, broad and moderately broad valleys. Soils were loamy that dry relatively deep. <i>Vaccinium cespitosum</i> codominates an open short-shrub layer with slightly taller shrubs, either <i>Salix farriae, Salix planifolia</i>, or <i>Betula glandulosa</i>. The ground cover is primarily <i>Danthonia intermedia</i> with scattered <i>Calamagrostis canadensis</i> and <i>Achillea millefolium</i>. Both wet-site species <i>Carex scopulorum var. bracteosa</i> and <i>Carex nigricans</i> and drier-site species <i>Festuca saximontana, Phleum alpinum</i>, or <i>Trisetum spicatum</i> may be present but never abundant. 
Accession Code: urn:lsid:vegbank.org:commConcept:29393-{B1969ABC-5A07-4B4A-8CA8-2E6166710128}
Plot-observations of this Community Concept: 0
      Party Perspective according to: NatureServe (organization)
Perspective from: 17-Oct-2002 to: ongoing
      Names:   UID: ELEMENT_GLOBAL.2.686775 NatureServe ExplorerNatureServe Explorer logo
  Code: CEGL000484
  Translated: Dwarf Bilberry - (Farr's Willow) / Timber Oatgrass Wet Shrubland
  Scientific: Vaccinium cespitosum - (Salix farriae) / Danthonia intermedia Wet Shrubland
(convergence) and Synonyms:
(similar) CEGL000484
(similar) Vaccinium caespitosum - (Salix farriae) / Danthonia intermedia Dwarf-shrubland
(similar) Vaccinium caespitosum - (Salix farriae) / Danthonia intermedia Dwarf-shrubland