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Arctic Herb Tundra Alliance | NatureServe Biotics 2019
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Name: Arctic Herb Tundra Alliance
Reference: NatureServe Biotics 2019
Description: This mesic herbaceous group is most common in western Alaska but occurs throughout arctic and subarctic Alaska, and Canada, possibly extending to Greenland. It occurs as small patches in the alpine zones of hill and mountain slopes, upper drainages, and lowlands including drained lake basins. This group occurs on mesic sites with &gt;25% cover of herbaceous species. Species include <i>Carex microchaeta ssp. nesophila</i> (the dominant sedge in higher elevations), <i>Alopecurus magellanicus, Artemisia arctica, Polygonum bistorta, Valeriana capitata, Pedicularis</i> spp., <i>Polemonium acutiflorum, Salix rotundifolia</i>, and <i>Salix reticulata</i>. Collapsed acidic lowland snowbeds that support <i>Phippsia algida</i> and <i>Alopecurus magellanicus</i> and drained lake basins dominated by <i>Calamagrostis canadensis</i> (western Alaska) are also included in this group. 
Accession Code: urn:lsid:vegbank.org:commConcept:39525-{8D76D67E-EB30-4AC8-A879-CB318289C56A}
Plot-observations of this Community Concept: 0
      Party Perspective according to: NatureServe (organization)
Perspective from: 19-Jan-2016 to: ongoing
      Names:   UID: ELEMENT_GLOBAL.2.1042143
  Code: A4340
  Translated: Arctic Herb Tundra Alliance
  Common: Arctic Herb Tundra
  Scientific: Arctic Herb Tundra Alliance