Name:
Rhynchospora oligantha - Sarracenia spp. - Ctenium aromaticum Seep Alliance
Reference:
NatureServe Biotics 2019
Description:
This alliance includes herbaceous bogs and seepage slope wetlands of the southern Atlantic Coastal Plain or Gulf Coastal Plain ranging from Texas east to North Carolina. Such communities have been variously called seepage slopes, hillside seepage bogs, muck bogs, poor fens, sandhill seeps, and other names. Sites are dominated or codominated by wetland herbaceous plants, such as <i>Aristida</i> spp., <i>Ctenium aromaticum, Rhynchospora</i> spp., or <i>Sarracenia</i> spp. <i>Rhynchospora</i> spp. are especially prominent and diverse in most examples; with as many as ten taxa of <i>Rhynchospora</i> spp. present. Carnivorous plants are also usually present, especially <i>Sarracenia</i> spp. which are codominant to sparse but diagnostic. Several species of <i>Sarracenia</i> spp. may be present at a site, including <i>Sarracenia alata, Sarracenia flava, Sarracenia leucophylla, Sarracenia psittacina, Sarracenia rosea</i>, and <i>Sarracenia rubra</i>. Woody species are <i>Arundinaria tecta, Clethra alnifolia, Cliftonia monophylla, Cyrilla racemiflora, Magnolia virginiana, Morella caroliniensis, Morella cerifera, Morella inodora, Smilax laurifolia</i>, and <i>Toxicodendron vernix</i>. Woody species are low if burned recently, but may occur in scattered clumps and patches, with shrub cover dependent largely on fire frequency and seasonality. In some seeps shrubs can be very prominent, even when fire is relatively frequent. Examples are influenced by groundwater seepage and/or seasonally high water tables.
Accession Code:
urn:lsid:vegbank.org:commConcept:38235-{8924C7DD-54BE-40CF-8437-C597BA0F2028}
Plot-observations of this Community Concept:
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