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Picea sitchensis - Tsuga heterophylla / Eurhynchium oreganum Forest | NatureServe Biotics 2019
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Name: Picea sitchensis - Tsuga heterophylla / Eurhynchium oreganum Forest
Reference: NatureServe Biotics 2019
Description: This linear forest plant community occurs on rich, moist high-bench floodplains of rivers that flood every five or more years in coastal British Columbia. The range of this plant community occurs along rivers at lower elevations of the Queen Charlotte Ranges and the outer coast of British Columbia from Smith Inlet to Portland Canal. Large well-spaced trees are characteristic, as is a moderately developed understory and well-developed moss layer. The overstory is dominated by <i>Tsuga heterophylla</i> and <i>Picea sitchensis</i>. The sparse shrub layer consists primarily of regenerating <i>Tsuga heterophylla</i>, and the sparse herb layer is characterized by low cover of <i>Blechnum spicant</i> and <i>Dryopteris expansa</i>. The well-developed moss layer is dominated by <i>Rhytidiadelphus loreus</i> and <i>Hylocomium splendens</i>. 
Accession Code: urn:lsid:vegbank.org:commConcept:31693-{BDE3B575-FA15-4163-A310-485FB4DE7689}
Plot-observations of this Community Concept: 0
      Party Perspective according to: NatureServe (organization)
Perspective from: 24-May-2005 to: ongoing
      Names:   UID: ELEMENT_GLOBAL.2.783950 NatureServe ExplorerNatureServe Explorer logo
  Code: CEGL002789
  Translated: Sitka Spruce - Western Hemlock / Oregon Beaked Moss Forest
  Scientific: Picea sitchensis - Tsuga heterophylla / Eurhynchium oreganum Forest
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(similar) Picea sitchensis - Tsuga heterophylla / Eurhynchium oreganum Forest