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Carex interior - Carex pellita Central Plains Graminoid Fen Alliance | NatureServe Biotics 2019
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Name: Carex interior - Carex pellita Central Plains Graminoid Fen Alliance
Reference: NatureServe Biotics 2019
Description: These fens are found in the Central Tallgrass Prairie and Sandhills region of the United States and contain locally distinctive sedge-, fern- and willow-dominated peatlands. Diagnostic features include the shrub <i>Salix petiolaris</i>, the sedges <i>Carex interior, Carex lacustris, Carex lasiocarpa, Carex pellita</i>, and <i>Carex prairea</i>, the ferns <i>Onoclea sensibilis, Ophioglossum pusillum</i>, and <i>Thelypteris palustris</i>, and diagnostic forbs of <i>Doellingeria umbellata, Menyanthes trifoliata, Pedicularis lanceolata, Symphyotrichum boreale</i>, and <i>Triadenum fraseri</i>. This fen type occurs on mid to lower slopes of hillsides and terraces in ravines or canyons. Soils are deep and consist of peat or muck, sometimes intermixed with sand, overlying an impervious clay layer. 
Accession Code: urn:lsid:vegbank.org:commConcept:39338-{5BDE6AE1-B31C-4BB8-B650-B20825B308C1}
Plot-observations of this Community Concept: 0
      Party Perspective according to: NatureServe (organization)
Perspective from: 18-Dec-2014 to: ongoing
      Names:   UID: ELEMENT_GLOBAL.2.934599 NatureServe ExplorerNatureServe Explorer logo
  Code: A4129
  Translated: Inland Sedge - Woolly Sedge Central Plains Graminoid Fen Alliance
  Common: Central Plains Graminoid Fen
  Scientific: Carex interior - Carex pellita Central Plains Graminoid Fen Alliance