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Salix boothii - Salix lemmonii Wet Shrubland | NatureServe Biotics 2019
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Name: Salix boothii - Salix lemmonii Wet Shrubland Reference: NatureServe Biotics 2019 Description: This shrubland association is currently only described from Oregon and may also occur in California and Nevada. Additional global information will be added as it becomes available. It was sampled in the southeastern East Cascades (Warmer Mountains) and in the Blue Mountains ecoregions. It may also occur in the Basin and Range ecoregion. Valleys are V-, trough- and flat-shaped and moderately wide to wide, with low to very high gradients and gentle to steep sideslopes. Sites are floodplains and wet meadows. Soils are deep, fine-textured loams. <i>Salix boothii</i> or <i>Salix lemmonii</i> dominant the overstory shrub layer, which averages 3.9 m in height (ranging from 2.5 to 6.2 m). Many other shrubs are present at low to high cover in the shrub over- and understories, including <i>Betula nana, Alnus incana, Salix geyeriana, Ribes lacustre, Ribes hudsonianum</i>, and <i>Lonicera involucrata</i>. The herbaceous layer (averaging 68 cm in height, ranging from 51-91 cm) comprises a great variety of forbs and grasses and graminoids, including <i>Glyceria striata, Bromus carinatus, Epilobium ciliatum, Galium triflorum, Urtica dioica, Aconitum columbianum</i>, and <i>Mitella pentandra</i>. Herbaceous biomass averages 2155 lbs/acre (ranging from 433 to 4600 lbs/acre).  Accession Code: urn:lsid:vegbank.org:commConcept:30095-{12DF5458-F01A-45E7-A286-D86DFF992AD9} Plot-observations of this Community Concept: 0
	Party Perspective according to: NatureServe (organization) Perspective from: 16-Jul-2018 to: ongoing
	status: accepted Community's Parent: Salix boothii - Salix geyeriana - Salix lutea Montane Wet Shrubland Alliance This Community's Level: Association This Community's Children: [none]		Names:   UID: ELEMENT_GLOBAL.2.685344 NatureServe Explorer   Code: CEGL001186   Translated: Booth's Willow - Lemmon's Willow Wet Shrubland   Scientific: Salix boothii - Salix lemmonii Wet Shrubland (convergence) and Synonyms: (similar) CEGL001186 (similar) Salix boothii - Salix lemmonii Shrubland (similar) Salix boothii - Salix lemmonii Shrubland