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Sibbaldia procumbens - Polygonum bistortoides Wet Meadow | NatureServe Biotics 2019
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Name: Sibbaldia procumbens - Polygonum bistortoides Wet Meadow
Reference: NatureServe Biotics 2019
Description: This low-growing subalpine and alpine wet meadow type has been described from the Wind River Mountains of west-central Wyoming and the Medicine Bow Mountains of south-central Wyoming and from the Front Range of north-central Colorado. It is a minor plant association and occurs in areas with late-lying snowbanks and in poorly drained depressions. Because these snowbanks do not melt until late July or mid August, these soils remain moist throughout the growing season. The vegetation is characterized by a moderately dense to dense herbaceous layer dominated by <i>Sibbaldia procumbens</i>, with a number of other associated species usually present, such as <i>Calamagrostis canadensis, Carex nigricans</i> (sometimes a codominant), <i>Deschampsia cespitosa, Erigeron</i> spp., <i>Lewisia pygmaea, Juncus drummondii, Trollius laxus ssp. albiflorus</i>, and especially <i>Polygonum bistortoides</i>, which may be present to codominant. 
Accession Code: urn:lsid:vegbank.org:commConcept:30842-{F9782E0E-FC9E-45FE-9673-0D4EBFBC5524}
Plot-observations of this Community Concept: 0
      Party Perspective according to: NatureServe (organization)
Perspective from: 18-Jan-2005 to: ongoing
      Names:   UID: ELEMENT_GLOBAL.2.689351 NatureServe ExplorerNatureServe Explorer logo
  Code: CEGL001933
  Translated: Creeping Sibbaldia - American Bistort Wet Meadow
  Scientific: Sibbaldia procumbens - Polygonum bistortoides Wet Meadow
(convergence) and Synonyms:
(similar) Sibbaldia procumbens - Polygonum bistortoides Herbaceous Vegetation
(similar) CEGL001933
(similar) Sibbaldia procumbens - Polygonum bistortoides Herbaceous Vegetation