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Dasiphora fruticosa / Carex sterilis - Cladium mariscoides Alkaline Fen Group | NatureServe Biotics 2019
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Name: Dasiphora fruticosa / Carex sterilis - Cladium mariscoides Alkaline Fen Group
Reference: NatureServe Biotics 2019
Description: This group encompasses shrub and herbaceous fen vegetation in the Midwest prairie region. Associations may be shrub-dominated, a mixture of shrubs and herbs, or herb-dominated. Characteristic species include the shrubs <i>Dasiphora fruticosa ssp. floribunda, Cornus amomum, Cornus racemosa, Cornus sericea</i>, prairie grasses such as <i>Andropogon gerardii</i> and <i>Spartina pectinata</i>, sedges including <i>Carex flava, Carex sterilis, Carex prairea, Carex stricta</i>, and other graminoids such as <i>Trichophorum alpinum</i>. Vegetation develops on shallow to deep peat over a gently sloping or level substrate, where the groundwater, typically minerotrophic and slightly alkaline, provides nutrients. In glaciated areas, they are characteristically in pitted outwash or in kettle lakes associated with kettle-kame-moraine topography. 
Accession Code: urn:lsid:vegbank.org:commConcept:39986-{2080B75E-AD0E-475B-AF7B-0F13962E5BC3}
Plot-observations of this Community Concept: 0
      Party Perspective according to: NatureServe (organization)
Perspective from: 02-Jun-2015 to: ongoing
      Names:   UID: ELEMENT_GLOBAL.2.835830 NatureServe ExplorerNatureServe Explorer logo
  Code: G183
  Scientific: Dasiphora fruticosa / Carex sterilis - Cladium mariscoides Alkaline Fen Group