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Schizachyrium littorale - Schizachyrium scoparium Northern Coastal Plain Grassland Alliance | NatureServe Biotics 2019
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Name: Schizachyrium littorale - Schizachyrium scoparium Northern Coastal Plain Grassland Alliance
Reference: NatureServe Biotics 2019
Description: This alliance comprises vegetation occurring on sandplains or on naturally stabilized backdunes where the substrate is naturally more stabilized than that foredunes. <i>Schizachyrium littorale</i> is characteristic, although stands are highly variable in species composition. <i>Aristida tuberculosa</i> is also characteristic of this vegetation where it occurs. The typical expression of this alliance is characterized by a predominance (25-50% cover) of bunchgrasses, including <i>Ammophila breviligulata, Andropogon virginicus, Deschampsia flexuosa, Dichanthelium acuminatum, Dichanthelium scoparium, Panicum amarum var. amarulum, Panicum virgatum, Schizachyrium littorale</i>, and <i>Schizachyrium scoparium</i>. Occasionally <i>Spartina patens</i> forms the dominant graminoid cover. Shrubs such as <i>Morella pensylvanica</i> are often present at variable cover. Sandplain grasslands usually occur somewhat interior to the coast, and are characterized by additional species such as <i>Asclepias tuberosa, Viola pedata</i>, and <i>Baptisia tinctoria</i>. 
Accession Code: urn:lsid:vegbank.org:commConcept:38858-{7A7B113E-5EF7-443B-A936-279CCEB835DE}
Plot-observations of this Community Concept: 0
      Party Perspective according to: NatureServe (organization)
Perspective from: 18-Dec-2014 to: ongoing
      Names:   UID: ELEMENT_GLOBAL.2.899696 NatureServe ExplorerNatureServe Explorer logo
  Code: A3638
  Translated: Shore Little Bluestem - Little Bluestem Northern Coastal Plain Grassland Alliance
  Common: Northern Coastal Plain Little Bluestem Grassland
  Scientific: Schizachyrium littorale - Schizachyrium scoparium Northern Coastal Plain Grassland Alliance