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Festuca viridula - Carex hoodii - Lupinus spp. Subalpine Mesic Meadow Alliance | NatureServe Biotics 2019
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Name: Festuca viridula - Carex hoodii - Lupinus spp. Subalpine Mesic Meadow Alliance
Reference: NatureServe Biotics 2019
Description: Vegetation of this high-elevation grassland alliance is dominated or codominated by <i>Festuca viridula</i> with <i>Carex hoodii, Eucephalus ledophyllus, Festuca idahoensis, Lupinus argenteus var. laxiflorus</i>, or <i>Lupinus latifolius</i>. These diagnostic species form dense, continuous stands in pristine situations. Dwarf-shrub and subshrub species include <i>Paxistima myrsinites</i> and <i>Phlox diffusa</i>. Adjacent vegetation is often subalpine forests of <i>Tsuga mertensiana</i> or <i>Abies lasiocarpa</i>, and at wetter sites, <i>Carex</i> spp. meadows or <i>Phyllodoce - Cassiope</i> shrublands are typical. This alliance occurs in cold, dry sites throughout the Pacific Northwest extending east to the central Rocky Mountains in northern Idaho. Stands occur from 1370 m in the northern Cascade Range and Olympic Mountains to 1586-1769 m in northern Idaho to over 2400 m in the mountains of northeastern Oregon. They are typically associated with south-facing or exposed slopes where snow cover is blown or melted off relatively early. Soils are usually well-drained and vary in texture from coarse colluvium on steep slopes to fine-textured loams in low-gradient subalpine meadows. 
Accession Code: urn:lsid:vegbank.org:commConcept:38188-{63C59954-E9A1-4E3D-9ADC-21C861C02182}
Plot-observations of this Community Concept: 0
      Party Perspective according to: NatureServe (organization)
Perspective from: 14-Mar-2014 to: ongoing
      Names:   UID: ELEMENT_GLOBAL.2.899096 NatureServe ExplorerNatureServe Explorer logo
  Code: A1257
  Translated: Greenleaf Fescue - Hood's Sedge - Lupine species Subalpine Mesic Meadow Alliance
  Common: Subalpine Greenleaf Fescue Mesic Meadow
  Scientific: Festuca viridula - Carex hoodii - Lupinus spp. Subalpine Mesic Meadow Alliance
(convergence) and Synonyms:
(similar) A.1257
(similar) Festuca viridula Herbaceous Alliance