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Schizachyrium littorale - Paspalum monostachyum - Panicum amarum Texas Coastal Grassland Alliance | NatureServe Biotics 2019
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Name: Schizachyrium littorale - Paspalum monostachyum - Panicum amarum Texas Coastal Grassland Alliance
Reference: NatureServe Biotics 2019
Description: Stands are typically dominated or codominated by <i>Panicum amarum, Paspalum monostachyum, Paspalum plicatulum</i>, or <i>Schizachyrium littorale</i>. Other associates include <i>Dichanthelium</i> spp., <i>Heteropogon contortus, Paspalum vaginatum</i>, and <i>Spartina patens</i>. There is some variation in composition across the moisture gradient at these sites. More poorly drained (wetter) areas tend to have high cover of <i>Spartina patens</i> and may support inclusions of <i>Spartina spartinae</i>. This alliance includes the predominant grasslands of the South Texas Sand Sheet, the Ingleside barrier-strandplain in the Coastal Bend of Texas, as well as barrier islands and other coastal situations of Texas and adjacent western Louisiana. On barrier islands, these grasslands occur on stabilized secondary dunes, low primary dunes, and relatively elevated backshore ridges above intertidal beaches. 
Accession Code: urn:lsid:vegbank.org:commConcept:38177-{E61A03E2-EDC3-4530-AB20-ABB5E0825B11}
Plot-observations of this Community Concept: 0
      Party Perspective according to: NatureServe (organization)
Perspective from: 06-Oct-2014 to: ongoing
      Names:   UID: ELEMENT_GLOBAL.2.899085 NatureServe ExplorerNatureServe Explorer logo
  Code: A1200
  Translated: Shore Little Bluestem - Gulfdune Crowngrass - Bitter Panicgrass Texas Coastal Grassland Alliance
  Common: Texas-Louisiana Coastal Grassland
  Scientific: Schizachyrium littorale - Paspalum monostachyum - Panicum amarum Texas Coastal Grassland Alliance
(convergence) and Synonyms:
(similar) Paspalum monostachyum - (Panicum amarum, Schizachyrium littorale) Herbaceous Alliance
(similar) A.1200