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Ammophila breviligulata - (Schizachyrium scoparium) Grassland | NatureServe Biotics 2019
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Name: Ammophila breviligulata - (Schizachyrium scoparium) Grassland Reference: NatureServe Biotics 2019 Description: This beachgrass dune community occurs along the Great Lakes shores region of the United States and Canada on stabilized foredunes. Component plant communities vary from sparsely vegetated, active dunes to communities dominated by grasses, shrubs, and trees, depending on the degree of sand deposition, sand erosion, and distance from the lake. Depositional areas, where Great Lakes beachgrass foredunes are found, are dominated by <i>Ammophila breviligulata</i> (or in the eastern part of the range <i>Ammophila champlainensis</i>); erosional areas, such as slacks in blowouts and dune fields, by <i>Calamovilfa longifolia</i>; and stabilized areas by <i>Schizachyrium scoparium</i>. In dune fields and on the most stable dune ridges, especially around northern Lake Michigan and Lake Huron, low evergreen shrubs (<i>Arctostaphylos uva-ursi, Juniperus communis, Juniperus horizontalis</i>) occupy dune crests and also the ground layer in the savanna edge of dunes; elsewhere, deciduous shrubs are dominant, including <i>Prunus pumila, Salix cordata</i> and <i>Salix myricoides</i>. These two shrubby phases are separated from this open grassland type, but could be treated as phases of this type.  Accession Code: urn:lsid:vegbank.org:commConcept:33863-{7A0627BE-7252-4A79-B863-39BE69EF699F} Plot-observations of this Community Concept: 0
	Party Perspective according to: NatureServe (organization) Perspective from: 29-Sep-1997 to: ongoing
	status: accepted Community's Parent: Ammophila breviligulata - Juniperus spp. Great Lakes Dune Grassland Alliance This Community's Level: Association This Community's Children: [none]		Names:   UID: ELEMENT_GLOBAL.2.688169 NatureServe Explorer   Code: CEGL005098   Translated: American Beachgrass - (Little Bluestem) Grassland   Common: Great Lakes Beachgrass Dune   Scientific: Ammophila breviligulata - (Schizachyrium scoparium) Grassland (convergence) and Synonyms: (similar) Ammophila breviligulata - (Schizachyrium scoparium) Herbaceous Vegetation (similar) CEGL005098 (similar) Ammophila breviligulata - (Schizachyrium scoparium) Herbaceous Vegetation