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Asplenium ruta-muraria - Pellaea atropurpurea Cliff Sparse Vegetation | NatureServe Biotics 2019
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Name: Asplenium ruta-muraria - Pellaea atropurpurea Cliff Sparse Vegetation
Reference: NatureServe Biotics 2019
Description: This community includes calcareous cliffs associated with limestone or dolomite geology in Alabama, Kentucky, Maryland, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia. This community includes dry to rather moist limestone and dolomite outcrops, usually shaded by trees rooted in adjacent forested communities. It has little vegetative cover, often with 90% of the rock surface unvegetated. Mosses and lichens can have moderate coverage; vascular plants occur on ledges and rooted in cracks. Calciphilic herbs such as <i>Asplenium ruta-muraria, Pellaea atropurpurea, Pellaea glabella ssp. glabella, Asplenium resiliens, Aquilegia canadensis</i> are characteristic. Moister microhabitats of the crevice may have mosses such as <i>Anomodon rostratus</i> and <i>Anomodon attenuatus</i>. 
Accession Code: urn:lsid:vegbank.org:commConcept:33264-{8EF6FB38-2258-490C-836C-A9131865E15E}
Plot-observations of this Community Concept: 0
      Party Perspective according to: NatureServe (organization)
Perspective from: 03-Oct-2006 to: ongoing
      Names:   UID: ELEMENT_GLOBAL.2.688984 NatureServe ExplorerNatureServe Explorer logo
  Code: CEGL004476
  Translated: Wall-rue - Purple Cliffbrake Cliff Sparse Vegetation
  Common: Montane Cliff (Calcareous Type)
  Scientific: Asplenium ruta-muraria - Pellaea atropurpurea Cliff Sparse Vegetation
(convergence) and Synonyms:
(similar) Asplenium ruta-muraria - Pellaea atropurpurea Sparse Vegetation
(similar) CEGL004476
(similar) Asplenium ruta-muraria - Pellaea atropurpurea Sparse Vegetation