Name:
Carex aquatilis - Carex spp. - Eriophorum angustifolium Sedge Meadow Alliance
Reference:
NatureServe Biotics 2019
Description:
This wetland alliance is dominated wider-leaved sedges, with a mixture of forbs. Dominant species include <i>Carex aquatilis, Carex lacustris, Carex rostrata, Carex stricta, Carex utriculata, Carex vesicaria</i>, and <i>Equisetum fluviatile</i>. Other species such as <i>Alopecurus aequalis, Eleocharis palustris, Glyceria grandis, Polygonum amphibium, Scirpus</i> and/or <i>Schoenoplectus</i> spp., <i>Typha</i> spp., and the forbs <i>Bidens cernua, Epilobium leptophyllum, Galium trifidum, Mentha arvensis</i>, and <i>Scutellaria galericulata</i> may be present. <i>Scolochloa festucacea</i> may be found in drier stands. Woody species are rare. It is found in the boreal and boreal transition of Alaska, British Columbia, extending east into Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba, and south into northern Idaho, Montana, North Dakota and Minnesota. Stands typically occur in depressions, around ponds or lakes, and adjacent to streams or rivers. Sites are flooded for some time during the growing season in most years. Stands are found on mostly mineral soils in fresh or slightly saline shallow marshes. These marshes occur on wave-washed lakeshores, stream floodplains and back-levees where waterflow prevents peat accumulation and provides for high nutrients.
Accession Code:
urn:lsid:vegbank.org:commConcept:39035-{2A64713F-332D-4A1C-A362-3FB0F5601826}
Plot-observations of this Community Concept:
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