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Carex vernacula - Phippsia algida - Ptilagrostis kingii Wet Meadow Alliance | NatureServe Biotics 2019
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Name: Carex vernacula - Phippsia algida - Ptilagrostis kingii Wet Meadow Alliance
Reference: NatureServe Biotics 2019
Description: <i>Carex vernacula, Phippsia algida</i>, or <i>Ptilagrostis kingii</i> dominates the graminoid layer. <i>Poa fendleriana</i> or <i>Deschampsia cespitosa</i> often codominates. <i>Caltha leptosepala, Monolepis nuttalliana, Phlox</i> spp., and <i>Rhodiola rhodantha</i> can be abundant. <i>Philonotis fontana var. pumila</i> was reported to dominate the moss layer in Colorado stands. Vegetation types within this short alpine or subalpine sod grassland alliance can occur on open, sunny, wet places in spruce-fir or alpine zones. Elevations range 1800-4200 m. Sites can range from moderately wide (25 m), gently sloping, glaciated, snowmelt alpine basins, to moist lakeshores and solifluction terraces below snowpatches and shallow marshes and wet meadows. The soils are skeletal with low organic matter accumulation, low clay content and low available moisture. This alliance has been documented in California, Nevada, Colorado and Wyoming. 
Accession Code: urn:lsid:vegbank.org:commConcept:38204-{C1DF4163-9F11-47CB-8071-466EE8D2F6D0}
Plot-observations of this Community Concept: 0
      Party Perspective according to: NatureServe (organization)
Perspective from: 26-Sep-2014 to: ongoing
      Names:   UID: ELEMENT_GLOBAL.2.899110 NatureServe ExplorerNatureServe Explorer logo
  Code: A1309
  Translated: Native Sedge - Icegrass - Sierra False Needlegrass Wet Meadow Alliance
  Common: Native Sedge - Icegrass - Sierra False Needlegrass Wet Meadow
  Scientific: Carex vernacula - Phippsia algida - Ptilagrostis kingii Wet Meadow Alliance
(convergence) and Synonyms:
(similar) A.1309
(similar) Carex vernacula Herbaceous Alliance