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Spartina cynosuroides Salt Marsh | NatureServe Biotics 2019
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Name: Spartina cynosuroides Salt Marsh
Reference: NatureServe Biotics 2019
Description: This community includes narrow, almost pure stands of <i>Spartina cynosuroides</i> along tidal creeks and sloughs or on levees of oligohaline tidal marshes along the central Atlantic coast. Some occurrences are nearly monospecific, while others have a diverse component of other graminoids and forbs. Where mixed, associated plants include <i>Schoenoplectus pungens, Bolboschoenus robustus, Schoenoplectus americanus, Kosteletzkya virginica, Hibiscus moscheutos, Amaranthus cannabinus, Panicum virgatum, Peltandra virginica</i>, and <i>Polygonum punctatum</i>. Where more saline, <i>Spartina alterniflora</i> and <i>Iva frutescens</i> can become more frequent. Where less saline, associates can include <i>Schoenoplectus tabernaemontani, Pontederia cordata, Peltandra virginica, Leersia oryzoides, Mikania scandens, Rumex verticillatus, Echinochloa walteri, Polygonum hydropiperoides</i>, and <i>Typha angustifolia</i> (or <i>Typha domingensis</i> in the south), among others. In more disturbed areas, this association can be displaced by <i>Phragmites australis</i>. 
Accession Code: urn:lsid:vegbank.org:commConcept:33037-{2256BD4F-D74B-477C-9157-27C571DAAD70}
Plot-observations of this Community Concept: 52
      Party Perspective according to: NatureServe (organization)
Perspective from: 13-May-2002 to: ongoing
      Names:   UID: ELEMENT_GLOBAL.2.689750 NatureServe ExplorerNatureServe Explorer logo
  Code: CEGL004195
  Translated: Big Cordgrass Salt Marsh
  Common: Atlantic Big Cordgrass Salt Marsh
  Scientific: Spartina cynosuroides Salt Marsh
(convergence) and Synonyms:
(similar) CEGL004195
(similar) Spartina cynosuroides Herbaceous Vegetation
(similar) Spartina cynosuroides Herbaceous Vegetation