Name:
Pinus contorta var. murrayana / Ceanothus megacarpus - Cercocarpus montanus var. minutiflorus Cliff, Scree & Rock Vegetation Group
Reference:
NatureServe Biotics 2019
Description:
This group is scattered across California's Coast, Transverse, and Peninsular ranges, Klamath Mountains, southern Sierra Nevada, and the northern coast of Baja California. Sites include barren and sparsely vegetated areas of steep cliff faces, narrow canyons, smaller rock outcrops of various igneous, sedimentary, serpentinite, and metamorphic bedrock. This group also includes unstable scree and talus slopes typically occurring below cliff faces. Scattered vegetation may include trees such as <i>Pseudotsuga menziesii, Pinus contorta var. murrayana, Pinus ponderosa</i>, and <i>Pinus jeffreyi</i>. Shrubs may include <i>Ceanothus megacarpus, Ceanothus leucodermis, Cercocarpus montanus var. glaber, Cercocarpus montanus var. minutiflorus, Arctostaphylos glauca</i>, and <i>Xylococcus bicolor</i>. Soil development is limited as is herbaceous cover, but may include <i>Allium falcifolium, Allium cratericola, Streptanthus</i> spp., <i>Hesperolinon</i> spp., <i>Asclepias solanoana, Eriogonum ursinum, Eriogonum nudum, Eriogonum luteolum, Erigeron</i> spp., <i>Dudleya cymosa, Dudleya lanceolata, Lewisia rediviva, Pentagramma triangularis, Selaginella bigelovii, Bromus rubens, Vulpia</i> spp., and others. Moss and lichen can be well-developed, and needs better characterization.
Accession Code:
urn:lsid:vegbank.org:commConcept:40233-{A379A7CA-BD7A-4D2B-A7AC-541076BB898B}
Plot-observations of this Community Concept:
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