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Populus tremuloides - Pinus contorta / Carex geyeri - Calamagrostis rubescens Forest | NatureServe Biotics 2019
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Name: Populus tremuloides - Pinus contorta / Carex geyeri - Calamagrostis rubescens Forest Reference: NatureServe Biotics 2019 Description: This forested association is known only from eastern Idaho, western Wyoming and northern Utah, the Utah -Wyoming Rocky Mountain Ecoregion. This mixed broadleaf deciduous-needleleaf evergreen forest occurs in the mountains between 1900 and 2900 m (6200-9400 feet) elevation, on gentle slopes of all aspects, on soils from sandstone or quartzite rock. It has little structural diversity and is fairly simple compositionally. The tree layer is dominated by both <i>Populus tremuloides</i> and <i>Pinus contorta</i>, with the occasional presence of other conifers, such as <i>Abies lasiocarpa</i> or <i>Pseudotsuga menziesii</i>. A few scattered shrub species may be present, but these do not form a distinct shrub layer. Shrub species may include <i>Juniperus communis, Mahonia repens</i>, or <i>Shepherdia canadensis</i>. The herbaceous layer consists of either <i>Carex geyeri</i> or <i>Calamagrostis rubescens</i>, sometimes with appreciable amounts of forbs such as <i>Lupinus argenteus, Osmorhiza berteroi, Geranium viscosissimum, Chamerion angustifolium, Heracleum maximum</i>, or <i>Thalictrum fendleri</i>.  Accession Code: urn:lsid:vegbank.org:commConcept:29445-{1B6CF45E-FB3C-4099-873A-B6545E77BC40} Plot-observations of this Community Concept: 0
	Party Perspective according to: NatureServe (organization) Perspective from: 07-Jul-2005 to: ongoing
	status: accepted Community's Parent: Pinus contorta - Populus tremuloides Rocky Mountain Forest Alliance This Community's Level: Association This Community's Children: [none]		Names:   UID: ELEMENT_GLOBAL.2.686484 NatureServe Explorer   Code: CEGL000536   Translated: Quaking Aspen - Lodgepole Pine / Geyer's Sedge - Pinegrass Forest   Scientific: Populus tremuloides - Pinus contorta / Carex geyeri - Calamagrostis rubescens Forest (convergence) and Synonyms: (similar) Populus tremuloides - Pinus contorta / Carex geyeri Forest (similar) CEGL000536 (similar) Populus tremuloides - Pinus contorta / Carex geyeri - Calamagrostis rubescens Forest