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Spartina alterniflora Carolinian Zone Salt Marsh | NatureServe Biotics 2019
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Name: Spartina alterniflora Carolinian Zone Salt Marsh
Reference: NatureServe Biotics 2019
Description: This vegetation includes various tidal marshes dominated by <i>Spartina alterniflora</i>, from Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, south to the Atlantic Coast of the Florida peninsula. The hydrology is usually regularly tidally flooded. <i>Spartina alterniflora</i> is limited to the low marsh zone by moderate salinity; it can withstand longer submergence than other salt marsh grasses, but still requires periodic exposure of the substrate. It also requires moderately high levels of iron (7-15 ppm). This community is commonly known as "low salt marsh," occurring as a tall grassland strongly dominated by <i>Spartina alterniflora</i>. There is little variation in vascular plant species composition across the range. <i>Spartina alterniflora</i> occurs in nearly pure stands, occasionally with other low-statured species. 
Accession Code: urn:lsid:vegbank.org:commConcept:33033-{472F98F9-7E15-4069-91C6-49C44600900A}
Plot-observations of this Community Concept: 54
      Party Perspective according to: NatureServe (organization)
Perspective from: 01-Aug-1994 to: ongoing
      Names:   UID: ELEMENT_GLOBAL.2.683265 NatureServe ExplorerNatureServe Explorer logo
  Code: CEGL004191
  Translated: Smooth Cordgrass Carolinian Zone Salt Marsh
  Common: Southern Atlantic Coast Salt Marsh
  Scientific: Spartina alterniflora Carolinian Zone Salt Marsh
(convergence) and Synonyms:
(similar) CEGL004191
(similar) Spartina alterniflora Carolinian Zone Herbaceous Vegetation
(similar) Spartina alterniflora Carolinian Zone Herbaceous Vegetation