Name:
North-Central Interior & Appalachian Alkaline Fen Group
Reference:
NatureServe Biotics 2019
Description:
This group encompasses shrub and herbaceous fen vegetation in the northeastern temperate region, including Allegheny Plateau and much of New York and New England, as well as the tallgrass prairie and southern Great Lakes regions of the north-central Midwest. 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>, and forbs such as <i>Lobelia kalmii, Packera aurea, Symplocarpus foetidus, Rhynchospora</i> spp., and <i>Triantha glutinosa</i>. Less commonly, <i>Cladium mariscoides</i> may be a dominant. 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:40374-{DBAF320E-63FB-4A92-9284-7F23DC3B28D4}
Plot-observations of this Community Concept:
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