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Ruppia maritima Louisianian Zone Aquatic Vegetation | NatureServe Biotics 2019
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Name: Ruppia maritima Louisianian Zone Aquatic Vegetation
Reference: NatureServe Biotics 2019
Description: This association represents estuarine non-emergent aquatic beds dominated by <i>Ruppia maritima</i> in the Gulf of Mexico. Although <i>Ruppia maritima</i> is widely distributed along the Atlantic Coast of North America, it attains its greatest abundance in the northern Gulf of Mexico from Florida to Texas where it is found in shallow waters from a few inches to 3 feet deep along muddy shores of shallow bays, sounds, and bayous, as well as in low salinity lagoons and ponds on barrier islands. <i>Ruppia maritima</i> is the only seagrass capable of growing in freshwater and is therefore often found in the oligohaline to mesohaline upper reaches of estuaries and lower reaches of tidal creeks, bayous and rivers. Because it often behaves as an annual, the distribution and abundance of <i>Ruppia maritima</i> is often shifting both spatially and temporally. This vegetation is patchily distributed along the upper and middle Texas coast, where <i>Ruppia maritima</i> often occurs mixed with <i>Halodule wrightii</i>. 
Accession Code: urn:lsid:vegbank.org:commConcept:33238-{C8E158A7-120F-4202-8BC8-1A42069A32D5}
Plot-observations of this Community Concept: 0
      Party Perspective according to: NatureServe (organization)
Perspective from: 12-Apr-2001 to: ongoing
      Names:   UID: ELEMENT_GLOBAL.2.685310 NatureServe ExplorerNatureServe Explorer logo
  Code: CEGL004450
  Translated: Widgeongrass Louisianian Zone Aquatic Vegetation
  Common: Gulf Coast Widgeongrass Bed
  Scientific: Ruppia maritima Louisianian Zone Aquatic Vegetation
(convergence) and Synonyms:
(similar) Ruppia maritima Louisianian Zone Herbaceous Vegetation
(similar) Ruppia maritima Louisianian Zone Herbaceous Vegetation
(similar) CEGL004450