Name:
Salix orestera Wet Shrubland Alliance
Reference:
NatureServe Biotics 2019
Description:
This vegetation forms a dense shrub canopy between 0.5 and 2 m in height, dominated by the tall willow <i>Salix orestera</i>. Other shrub species that may be present to codominant include <i>Ribes montigenum, Vaccinium cespitosum</i>, and <i>Phyllodoce breweri</i>. The herbaceous understory tends to be light cover dominated by graminoids such as <i>Calamagrostis breweri, Carex exserta, Carex fissuricola, Carex spectabilis, Juncus parryi, Luzula subcongesta, Phleum alpinum, Poa secunda, Poa stebbinsii</i>, and <i>Ptilagrostis kingii</i>. Forbs present may include <i>Achillea millefolium, Allium validum, Antennaria media, Antennaria rosea, Arnica mollis, Castilleja lemmonii, Chamerion angustifolium, Cirsium</i> sp., <i>Lupinus lepidus, Mimulus primuloides, Montia chamissoi, Muhlenbergia filiformis, Oreostemma alpigenum var. alpigenum, Pedicularis attollens, Penstemon rydbergii, Potentilla drummondii, Potentilla gracilis, Senecio scorzonella, Senecio triangularis</i>, and/or <i>Symphyotrichum spathulatum var. spathulatum</i>. This vegetation grows on low-gradient basin floors, streamsides, and wet meadows around 3050-3200 m (10,000-10,500 feet) elevation in the Sierra Nevada of California and in Oregon and Nevada. Soils are silt or clay loams derived from metamorphic parent materials.
Accession Code:
urn:lsid:vegbank.org:commConcept:38360-{4650EDBB-DAB9-4821-8E69-31B86DA92BC8}
Plot-observations of this Community Concept:
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