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Spartina pectinata - Carex spp. Wet Meadow | NatureServe Biotics 2019
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Name: Spartina pectinata - Carex spp. Wet Meadow
Reference: NatureServe Biotics 2019
Description: This cordgrass wet prairie type is found in the northwestern Great Plains of the United States. Stands occur in drainage bottoms where the soil is wet for at least part of the growing season, or in poorly drained depressions within floodplains of major rivers. At Wind Cave National Park in South Dakota, this type has dense herbaceous cover, greater than 75%. Species dominance is patchy within stands, with various graminoids locally abundant, often to the exclusion of other species. In the single sampled stand, <i>Spartina pectinata, Carex nebrascensis</i>, and <i>Eleocharis palustris</i> were locally dominant. <i>Epilobium ciliatum</i> was common in shallow water. At Theodore Roosevelt National Park in North Dakota, <i>Spartina pectinata</i> is the dominant species. Species richness is generally low. <i>Hordeum jubatum</i> and <i>Pascopyrum smithii</i> are the most prominent secondary species. Elsewhere <i>Carex pellita</i> may be dominant. 
Accession Code: urn:lsid:vegbank.org:commConcept:30386-{AF973E6D-0769-40DC-8AA0-BF26AABBEAD6}
Plot-observations of this Community Concept: 6
      Party Perspective according to: NatureServe (organization)
Perspective from: 12-Jul-2013 to: ongoing
      Names:   UID: ELEMENT_GLOBAL.2.684622 NatureServe ExplorerNatureServe Explorer logo
  Code: CEGL001477
  Translated: Prairie Cordgrass - Sedge species Wet Meadow
  Common: Prairie Cordgrass - Sedge Wet Meadow
  Scientific: Spartina pectinata - Carex spp. Wet Meadow
(convergence) and Synonyms:
(similar) CEGL001477
(similar) Spartina pectinata - Carex spp. Herbaceous Vegetation
(similar) Spartina pectinata - Carex spp. Herbaceous Vegetation