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Juniperus communis - Mixed Scrub / Danthonia spicata Acidic Bedrock Alliance | NatureServe Biotics 2019
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Name: Juniperus communis - Mixed Scrub / Danthonia spicata Acidic Bedrock Alliance
Reference: NatureServe Biotics 2019
Description: This alliance is characterized by abundant acidic bedrock outcrops with patchy vegetation characterized by sparsely distributed trees, shrubs, graminoids, and lichens. A northern but subboreal flora consisting of <i>Pinus banksiana, Pinus strobus, Pinus resinosa, Quercus rubra, Juniperus communis, Sibbaldiopsis tridentata, Danthonia spicata</i>, and <i>Poa compressa</i> is most frequently found in this alliance. This alliance ranges from the upper Midwest and Canada east to Quebec and Ontario and south to northern New York. Stands of this alliance occur on rock outcrops on ridgetops and upper slopes. The sandy and coarse loamy soils are found only in cracks and depressions in the bedrock. Aspect and slope are variable, although this alliance does not occur on steep slopes. 
Accession Code: urn:lsid:vegbank.org:commConcept:39118-{98E6C3E6-5E22-413E-A60F-B70AF5C321BA}
Plot-observations of this Community Concept: 0
      Party Perspective according to: NatureServe (organization)
Perspective from: 08-Jan-2014 to: ongoing
      Names:   UID: ELEMENT_GLOBAL.2.899959 NatureServe ExplorerNatureServe Explorer logo
  Code: A3908
  Translated: Common Juniper - Mixed Scrub / Poverty Oatgrass Acidic Bedrock Alliance
  Common: Common Juniper - Mixed Scrub Acidic Bedrock
  Scientific: Juniperus communis - Mixed Scrub / Danthonia spicata Acidic Bedrock Alliance