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Eleocharis palustris - Distichlis spicata Marsh | NatureServe Biotics 2019
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Name: Eleocharis palustris - Distichlis spicata Marsh
Reference: NatureServe Biotics 2019
Description: This association is described from the saline meadow communities surrounding Utah Lake in northern Utah. Sites are close to 1372 m (4500 feet) in elevation, on the level former lakebed of Pleistocene Lake Bonneville. Soil texture is typically a sandy clay loam. This association consists entirely of herbaceous species, mostly graminoids, with a total cover typically close to 100%. Diagnostic of this association is a high relative cover of <i>Eleocharis palustris</i> and <i>Distichlis spicata</i>, usually with significant cover of <i>Juncus arcticus ssp. littoralis, Glaux maritima</i>, and other species of <i>Eleocharis</i>. 
Accession Code: urn:lsid:vegbank.org:commConcept:30743-{DCC28E5C-34A4-49FE-8A5E-6BE7F103D950}
Plot-observations of this Community Concept: 0
      Party Perspective according to: NatureServe (organization)
Perspective from: 01-Sep-2004 to: ongoing
      Names:   UID: ELEMENT_GLOBAL.2.684755 NatureServe ExplorerNatureServe Explorer logo
  Code: CEGL001834
  Translated: Common Spikerush - Saltgrass Marsh
  Scientific: Eleocharis palustris - Distichlis spicata Marsh
(convergence) and Synonyms:
(similar) CEGL001834
(similar) Eleocharis palustris - Distichlis spicata Herbaceous Vegetation
(similar) Eleocharis palustris - Distichlis spicata Herbaceous Vegetation