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Deschampsia cespitosa - Polygonum bistortoides Wet Meadow | NatureServe Biotics 2019
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Name: Deschampsia cespitosa - Polygonum bistortoides Wet Meadow
Reference: NatureServe Biotics 2019
Description: This association is known from the vicinity of Yosemite National Park, Sequoia National Park, and elsewhere in the Sierra Nevada. It occupies wet and moist meadows, streamsides, and lake margins in the montane and subalpine zone of the Sierra Nevada. This perennial bunchgrass vegetation is variable depending on the elevation. It usually forms a dense cover from 60-90% dominated by <i>Deschampsia cespitosa</i> with forbs including <i>Senecio scorzonella, Solidago multiradiata, Lupinus lepidus, Achillea millefolium, Oreostemma alpigenum var. alpigenum, Polygonum bistortoides, Trifolium monanthum</i>, and <i>Potentilla drummondii</i>. The most frequent graminoid associates include <i>Calamagrostis breweri, Phleum alpinum, Poa fendleriana, Carex luzulifolia, Trisetum wolfii, Eleocharis quinqueflora, Phleum alpinum, Carex scopulorum, Juncus mexicanus, Muhlenbergia richardsonis, Calamagrostis breweri</i>, and/or <i>Trisetum spicatum</i>. <i>Polygonum bistortoides</i> is the only species other than <i>Deschampsia</i> that occurs on all of the plots sampled at Yosemite National Park. 
Accession Code: urn:lsid:vegbank.org:commConcept:32367-{593E6455-1278-4ED5-962A-2779188CF688}
Plot-observations of this Community Concept: 0
      Party Perspective according to: NatureServe (organization)
Perspective from: 24-Feb-2012 to: ongoing
      Names:   UID: ELEMENT_GLOBAL.2.685767
  Code: CEGL003485
  Translated: Tufted Hairgrass - American Bistort Wet Meadow
  Scientific: Deschampsia cespitosa - Polygonum bistortoides Wet Meadow
(convergence) and Synonyms:
(similar) Deschampsia caespitosa - Polygonum bistortoides Herbaceous Vegetation
(similar) Deschampsia caespitosa - Polygonum bistortoides Herbaceous Vegetation