Name:
Carex lyngbyei - Bolboschoenus maritimus - Glaux maritima Salt Marsh Group
Reference:
NatureServe Biotics 2019
Description:
This group consists of the intertidal salt marshes and brackish marshes found throughout the North American Pacific coast. Vegetation ranges from very dense thickets to open and sparse. Dominant plant species change from north to south, but communities have many species in common, including <i>Batis maritima, Carex lyngbyei, Carex ramenskii, Distichlis spicata, Eleocharis palustris, Glaux maritima, Hippuris tetraphylla, Honckenya peploides, Jaumea carnosa, Limonium californicum, Monanthochloe littoralis, Puccinellia</i> spp., <i>Salicornia depressa, Salicornia</i> spp., <i>Spergularia canadensis, Suaeda</i> spp., <i>Triglochin maritima</i>, and/or <i>Triglochin</i> spp. Primarily associated with estuaries or coastal lagoons, salt marshes are limited to bays, behind sand spits or other locations protected from wave action. These occur from Kodiak Island and south-central Alaska, south along the coast throughout British Columbia, Washington, Oregon, California, Baja California and the Sonoran coast along the Gulf of California, including coastal marshes along the Colorado River delta and other river deltas such as the Rio Yaqui.
Accession Code:
urn:lsid:vegbank.org:commConcept:40134-{453D4ACF-9999-41C7-823E-A92E03BEF6D3}
Plot-observations of this Community Concept:
0
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