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Borrichia frutescens / (Spartina patens, Juncus roemerianus) Saline Shrubland | NatureServe Biotics 2019
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Name: Borrichia frutescens / (Spartina patens, Juncus roemerianus) Saline Shrubland
Reference: NatureServe Biotics 2019
Description: This association includes upper marsh edges and flats strongly dominated by <i>Borrichia frutescens</i>, ranging in size from narrow bands to flats in excess of 500 ha. It is broadly described to include vegetation ranging from the Mid- and South Atlantic Coast to the West Gulf Coast of the United States. Other characteristic species may include <i>Spartina patens, Iva frutescens</i>, and <i>Limonium carolinianum</i>. In Texas, the composition of this low-diversity, irregularly tidally flooded shrubland is variable and can include <i>Distichlis spicata, Bolboschoenus robustus, Sporobolus virginicus, Monanthochloe littoralis, Atriplex matamorensis</i> (in south Texas), <i>Sarcocornia pacifica, Limonium carolinianum, Lycium carolinianum var. quadrifidum, Rayjacksonia phyllocephala, Prosopis reptans</i> (in south Texas), and <i>Batis maritima</i>. Here, this community often occurs just above the lower tidal flat communities ~<i>Batis maritima - Sarcocornia pacifica</i> Saline Dwarf-shrubland (CEGL003956)$$ or ~<i>Sarcocornia pacifica - (Batis maritima, Distichlis spicata)</i> Saline Dwarf-shrubland (CEGL002278)$$.<br /><br />This shrubland usually occurs as a very narrow band adjacent and below tidal shrublands. Two large examples of this association at Fort Pulaski, Georgia, are extensive enough to map and occur on tidal flats adjacent the extensive salt marsh communities of eastern Cockspur Island. Typically this community is monospecific, being made up almost exclusively of <i>Borrichia frutescens</i>. 
Accession Code: urn:lsid:vegbank.org:commConcept:32779-{19053A97-5AC5-4695-BA10-693FA1A044DD}
Plot-observations of this Community Concept: 47
      Party Perspective according to: NatureServe (organization)
Perspective from: 21-Apr-2008 to: ongoing
      Names:   UID: ELEMENT_GLOBAL.2.687750 NatureServe ExplorerNatureServe Explorer logo
  Code: CEGL003924
  Translated: Bushy Seaside-tansy / (Saltmeadow Cordgrass, Black Needlerush) Saline Shrubland
  Common: Seaside-tansy Tidal Shrub Flat
  Scientific: Borrichia frutescens / (Spartina patens, Juncus roemerianus) Saline Shrubland
(convergence) and Synonyms:
(similar) CEGL003924
(similar) Borrichia frutescens / (Spartina patens, Juncus roemerianus) Shrubland
(similar) Borrichia frutescens / (Spartina patens, Juncus roemerianus) Shrubland