Name:
Carex aquatilis - Eriophorum angustifolium Arctic Wet Meadow Group
Reference:
NatureServe Biotics 2019
Description:
This group is found in arctic and subarctic Canada and in arctic Alaska, from the Bristol Bay lowlands in southwestern Alaska to the North Slope on the Arctic Ocean in valley bottoms, basins, low-center polygons, oxbows, wet depressions, low-lying areas, abandoned channels, watertracks and adjacent to streams. This group also includes patterned wetlands such as ribbed fens. Soils range from acidic to non-acidic, are saturated during the summer, and have an organic horizon over silt with permafrost, although on floodplains, permafrost is absent. Sites are typically sedge-dominated, and species include <i>Carex aquatilis, Eriophorum angustifolium, Carex glareosa, Carex rotundata, Carex rariflora, Carex chordorrhiza, Carex rostrata, Carex saxatilis, Carex utriculata, Eriophorum russeolum</i>, and <i>Eriophorum scheuchzeri</i>. More elevated perimeters support low shrubs and tussocks. Common shrubs include <i>Betula nana, Salix fuscescens, Salix pulchra, Ledum palustre ssp. decumbens, Andromeda polifolia, Vaccinium vitis-idaea, Vaccinium uliginosum</i>, and <i>Empetrum nigrum</i>.
Accession Code:
urn:lsid:vegbank.org:commConcept:40278-{0B2EA302-890C-4AE3-8D93-1DBEA5E1696B}
Plot-observations of this Community Concept:
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