Name:
Interior Warm & Cool Desert Riparian Forest Macrogroup
Reference:
NatureServe Biotics 2019
Description:
This macrogroup is of riparian, floodplain, seep and oases dominated by trees. Dominant include <i>Vachellia farnesiana, Acer negundo, Celtis laevigata, Celtis ehrenbergiana, Cordia boissieri, Diospyros texana, Ebenopsis ebano, Ehretia anacua, Fraxinus velutina, Haematoxylum brasiletto, Juglans major, Leucaena pulverulenta, Parkinsonia aculeata, Platanus racemosa, Platanus wrightii, Populus deltoides ssp. wislizeni, Populus deltoides ssp. monilifera, Populus fremontii, Prosopis glandulosa, Quercus lobata, Sabal mexicana, Salix amygdaloides, Salix gooddingii, Salix laevigata, Sapindus saponaria, Sideroxylon celastrinum, Tecoma stans, Ulmus crassifolia</i>, and <i>Washingtonia filifera</i>. It occurs from sea level to 2300 m (7500 feet) along foothill and mountain canyons and valleys where riparian corridors follow stream courses and spring-fed depressions along canyon waterways and tectonic faultlines. Most of the dominant woody species found in this macrogroup are phreatophytes and require the presence of a seasonally shallow water table. This macrogroup occurs from Central Valley of California south and east through the Sonoran and Chihuahuan deserts to the Rio Grande River, north into valleys of the lower Colorado Plateau, the San Luis Valley of Colorado and east into the western Great Plains and the Tamaulipan region of southern Texas. The Tamaulipan area is floristically variable with some components better classified with subtropical vegetation and others with temperate vegetation, so it is a transitional zone and is included within this macrogroup because of shared habitat, dynamics, physiognomic structure and tree genera.
Accession Code:
urn:lsid:vegbank.org:commConcept:40461-{AABDC51E-9262-4C6A-8B14-B82511ACB48A}
Plot-observations of this Community Concept:
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