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Pascopyrum smithii Wet Meadow Alliance | NatureServe Biotics 2019
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Name: Pascopyrum smithii Wet Meadow Alliance
Reference: NatureServe Biotics 2019
Description: This herbaceous alliance is found in the southern Great Plains from Nebraska to Oklahoma and northern Texas. Overall, grasses, and especially mid grasses, dominate stands of this alliance. Forbs can be abundant or even dominant in some stands, and short grasses become more abundant under grazing pressure. <i>Pascopyrum smithii</i> is the typical dominant species and can be strongly dominant, sometimes with <i>Panicum virgatum</i> as a codominant. Associated species vary with amount of flooding and grazing. <i>Agrostis hyemalis, Eleocharis macrostachya, Eleocharis palustris, Elymus virginicus</i>, and <i>Hordeum jubatum</i> are often present. <i>Bouteloua dactyloides</i> can be common on grazed sites. Stands occur in depressions or along streams. These sites retain water from snowmelt and rains and may flood for short periods but dry out for most of the growing season, and this type may overlap with moist mixedgrass prairie types. 
Accession Code: urn:lsid:vegbank.org:commConcept:38817-{C61FDE6B-3262-4350-9855-2AEF9FA1DBB1}
Plot-observations of this Community Concept: 0
      Party Perspective according to: NatureServe (organization)
Perspective from: 28-Apr-2014 to: ongoing
      Names:   UID: ELEMENT_GLOBAL.2.899655 NatureServe ExplorerNatureServe Explorer logo
  Code: A3597
  Translated: Western Wheatgrass Wet Meadow Alliance
  Common: Western Wheatgrass Wet Meadow
  Scientific: Pascopyrum smithii Wet Meadow Alliance