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Carex lasiocarpa Fen | NatureServe Biotics 2019
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Name: Carex lasiocarpa Fen
Reference: NatureServe Biotics 2019
Description: This herbaceous-dominated peatland is known from the lowlands of Washington's Puget Trough to high subalpine basins in Utah, Montana and Colorado, where it occurs in low-gradient, wide valleys and in topographic depressions. Elevation ranges from below 600 to over 3000 m (1900-9800 feet). Soils are deep organic peat in various degrees of decomposition. Sites are flooded seasonally, are poorly to very poorly drained, and remain saturated for the entire growing season, except in drought years. It occurs both as bogs (no in or outflows) and as fens (some contact with drainage from surrounding mineral soil). Species richness is naturally low in this wet herbaceous association. The indicator species is <i>Carex lasiocarpa</i>, the dominant graminoid, with 30-100% cover. Other sedge species that may be present with 0-30% cover include <i>Carex aquatilis, Carex utriculata, Carex canescens, Carex microptera</i>, and <i>Carex buxbaumii</i>. Forb species are generally in low abundance, but can include species of <i>Nuphar</i> (e.g., <i>Nuphar polysepala, Nuphar variegata</i>), <i>Drosera, Menyanthes, Potentilla</i>, and many others, depending on geographic location. 
Accession Code: urn:lsid:vegbank.org:commConcept:30719-{14A4FFF6-1B13-43CE-AB6A-175BC8488DBA}
Plot-observations of this Community Concept: 6
      Party Perspective according to: NatureServe (organization)
Perspective from: 03-Feb-2004 to: ongoing
      Names:   UID: ELEMENT_GLOBAL.2.688117 NatureServe ExplorerNatureServe Explorer logo
  Code: CEGL001810
  Translated: Woolly-fruit Sedge Fen
  Scientific: Carex lasiocarpa Fen
(convergence) and Synonyms:
(similar) CEGL001810
(similar) Carex lasiocarpa Herbaceous Vegetation
(similar) Carex lasiocarpa Herbaceous Vegetation