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Eastern North America Inland Beach & Rocky Shore Group | NatureServe Biotics 2019
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Name: Eastern North America Inland Beach & Rocky Shore Group
Reference: NatureServe Biotics 2019
Description: This heterogeneous group encompasses primarily upland vegetation along lakeshores or rivershores in the upper midwestern United States and Canada, exclusive of the Great Lakes. Some areas may be briefly inundated during high water periods. The substrate is gravelly, cobbly, or consolidated rock. Soils are shallow or confined to crevices. Substrate is igneous and metamorphic bedrock, cobble, or gravel. These shores may be narrow zones of shrubs and/or sparse vegetation on rocky or gravelly shores. Little rangewide information from this group is available. Zonation in vegetation may be evident as a result of differential degree of overwash by waves or ice-scour. Shrubs may include <i>Alnus</i> spp., <i>Chamaedaphne calyculata, Myrica gale</i>, and <i>Spiraea alba</i>. Forbs and graminoids include <i>Agrostis</i> spp., <i>Campanula rotundifolia, Danthonia spicata, Iris versicolor, Lysimachia terrestris</i>, and <i>Sibbaldiopsis tridentata</i>. 
Accession Code: urn:lsid:vegbank.org:commConcept:40089-{DFED2FD4-FBC4-42DA-8DFC-80313D6269B6}
Plot-observations of this Community Concept: 0
      Party Perspective according to: NatureServe (organization)
Perspective from: 06-May-2015 to: ongoing
      Names:   UID: ELEMENT_GLOBAL.2.858054 NatureServe ExplorerNatureServe Explorer logo
  Code: G342
  Scientific: Eastern North America Inland Beach & Rocky Shore Group