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Populus fremontii / Muhlenbergia rigens Riparian Woodland | NatureServe Biotics 2019
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Name: Populus fremontii / Muhlenbergia rigens Riparian Woodland
Reference: NatureServe Biotics 2019
Description: This open riparian woodland is found generally along small, perennial and seasonally intermittent streams in the foothills zone of isolated desert mountain ranges in extreme southwestern New Mexico and possibly southeastern Arizona. These woodlands occur in narrow stream valleys, on gently sloping alluvial terraces, and are periodically inundated during spring runoff. The stand from Gray Ranch in the Animas Mountains was described from an east-facing alluvial terrace at approximately 1700 m elevation. The parent material is gravelly rhyolite alluvium, deposited among boulders. This woodland has an open tree canopy with a grassy understory. The broad-leaved deciduous trees <i>Populus fremontii</i> and <i>Salix gooddingii</i> dominate the canopy layer with 10-20% cover. Scattered <i>Baccharis salicifolia</i> and <i>Dalea</i> spp. may be present in the poorly developed shrub layer. The perennial bunchgrass <i>Muhlenbergia rigens</i> is the only abundant species in the herbaceous layer, with 20% cover. Total herbaceous cover is 25%. 
Accession Code: urn:lsid:vegbank.org:commConcept:30364-{2B68D4BC-0A5C-486D-9086-4C7BAD051B4F}
Plot-observations of this Community Concept: 0
      Party Perspective according to: NatureServe (organization)
Perspective from: 11-May-1993 to: ongoing
      Names:   UID: ELEMENT_GLOBAL.2.687363 NatureServe ExplorerNatureServe Explorer logo
  Code: CEGL001455
  Translated: Fremont Cottonwood / Deergrass Riparian Woodland
  Scientific: Populus fremontii / Muhlenbergia rigens Riparian Woodland
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(similar) Populus fremontii / Muhlenbergia rigens Woodland
(similar) CEGL001455
(similar) Populus fremontii / Muhlenbergia rigens Woodland