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Sullivantia hapemanii - Mimulus spp. Wet Rock Alliance | NatureServe Biotics 2019
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Name: Sullivantia hapemanii - Mimulus spp. Wet Rock Alliance
Reference: NatureServe Biotics 2019
Description: These are seepage areas along vertical rockfaces, vertical to sloped rockwalls at the base of waterfalls, and large rocks and boulders kept wet by spray from nearby turbulent waterflow (e.g., cascading streamflow or churning of plunge pools at the base of waterfalls). They have a water regime ranging from seasonally to perennially wet but a minimum duration of wetness is needed to maintain these communities. Generally they are freshwater but water chemistry and pH can vary according to local bedrock. These are wet surfaces that range from nearly unvegetated to supporting mats of mosses and liverworts that in turn may support vascular plants and invertebrates. These areas are sometimes called "hanging gardens," or "vertical wetlands." This alliance is found in montane to alpine regions of the Rocky Mountain cordillera, from southern New Mexico north into Montana, Idaho, northeast Washington, Alberta and British Columbia, and west into the lower elevations and mountain ranges within the Intermountain West region. 
Accession Code: urn:lsid:vegbank.org:commConcept:39345-{E48D82D5-F371-48A5-B982-A1C5AB3E1785}
Plot-observations of this Community Concept: 0
      Party Perspective according to: NatureServe (organization)
Perspective from: 13-Dec-2014 to: ongoing
      Names:   UID: ELEMENT_GLOBAL.2.934875 NatureServe ExplorerNatureServe Explorer logo
  Code: A4146
  Translated: Hapeman's Coolwort - Monkeyflower species Wet Rock Alliance
  Common: Rocky Mountain-Great Basin Wet Cliff & Spray Zone
  Scientific: Sullivantia hapemanii - Mimulus spp. Wet Rock Alliance