Login | Datasets | Logout
 

View Community Concepts - Detail

Vitis arizonica / Cladium californicum Wet Shrubland | NatureServe Biotics 2019
  click to update datacart
Name: Vitis arizonica / Cladium californicum Wet Shrubland
Reference: NatureServe Biotics 2019
Description: This association is currently described only from the Mojave Desert Network. Additional global information will be added as it becomes available. It is found rarely in Lake Mead National Recreation Area in Nevada, where it was sampled along riparian channels at low to upper elevations in Echo Bay area, such as at Rogers Spring/Wash complex. Elevation ranges from approximately 450 to 1600 m, and averages 695 m. Soils are primarily derived from sandstone. Vegetation forms an open to dense shrub canopy in which the shrub cover ranges from 26 to 67%. An emergent tree layer is typically absent and the herb understory is variable and ranges from 26 to 40% cover. <i>Vitis arizonica</i> is the dominant shrub in the shrub canopy and <i>Allenrolfea occidentalis</i> is characteristic. Other shrubs often present include <i>Pluchea sericea</i> and <i>Suaeda moquinii</i>. <i>Cladium californicum</i> is the dominant herb and other commonly associated herbs include <i>Phragmites australis</i> and <i>Schismus</i> spp. Sometimes non-native herbs, such as <i>Arundo donax</i>, may be present and competing in the herb layer. 
Accession Code: urn:lsid:vegbank.org:commConcept:37525-{416E5B73-51AD-4211-9FE1-5DB5165542B2}
Plot-observations of this Community Concept: 0
      Party Perspective according to: NatureServe (organization)
Perspective from: 20-Jul-2018 to: ongoing
      Names:   UID: ELEMENT_GLOBAL.2.972216
  Code: CEPP006832
  Translated: Canyon Grape / California Sawgrass Wet Shrubland
  Scientific: Vitis arizonica / Cladium californicum Wet Shrubland