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Carex pellita Wet Meadow | NatureServe Biotics 2019
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Name: Carex pellita Wet Meadow
Reference: NatureServe Biotics 2019
Description: This groundwater-supported plant association occurs in small patches along stream channels and in seasonally wet depressions and swales at low to moderate elevations in the western U.S. from Washington to Montana south to Oregon, Utah, Wyoming and Colorado. It has also been reported from British Columbia, Canada. These wetlands form small to medium-sized meadows. <i>Carex pellita</i>, a distinctive wetland-indicator species, clearly dominates stands with 30-80% cover. Low species diversity, with few associates having high constancy, is characteristic. <i>Deschampsia cespitosa, Carex microptera, Carex nebrascensis, Carex simulata, Carex praegracilis, Elymus glaucus, Juncus arcticus ssp. littoralis, Schoenoplectus pungens, Equisetum arvense</i>, and <i>Equisetum hyemale</i> are sometimes present with low cover. Scattered shrubs and small trees may also be present. On the eastern plains of Colorado, it can occur under a canopy of cottonwood trees forming ~<i>Populus deltoides / Carex pellita</i> Floodplain Woodland (CEGL002649)$$. 
Accession Code: urn:lsid:vegbank.org:commConcept:30718-{930BFB07-1B53-4FE4-94EB-10D68673D774}
Plot-observations of this Community Concept: 3
      Party Perspective according to: NatureServe (organization)
Perspective from: 13-Oct-2005 to: ongoing
      Names:   UID: ELEMENT_GLOBAL.2.688116 NatureServe ExplorerNatureServe Explorer logo
  Code: CEGL001809
  Translated: Woolly Sedge Wet Meadow
  Scientific: Carex pellita Wet Meadow
(convergence) and Synonyms:
(similar) Carex pellita Herbaceous Vegetation
(similar) Carex pellita Herbaceous Vegetation
(similar) CEGL001809