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Great Plains Saline Wet Meadow & Marsh Macrogroup | NatureServe Biotics 2019
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Name: Great Plains Saline Wet Meadow & Marsh Macrogroup
Reference: NatureServe Biotics 2019
Description: This macrogroup covers graminoid-dominated saline shallow depressions and mudflats found throughout the Great Plains. The most abundant species at a site typically include <i>Distichlis spicata</i> or <i>Hordeum jubatum</i>. Other common associates or dominants are <i>Atriplex patula, Eleocharis</i> spp., <i>Iva annua, Pascopyrum smithii, Poa arida, Puccinellia nuttalliana, Salicornia rubra, Bolboschoenus maritimus, Sporobolus airoides</i>, and <i>Suaeda calceoliformis</i>. Soils are saline and any standing water is brackish. This macrogroup occurs throughout the Great Plains from southern Canada to the panhandle of Texas and west into the plains of Montana, Wyoming and Colorado. 
Accession Code: urn:lsid:vegbank.org:commConcept:40490-{D445ACDD-B91B-490C-8FDA-030C6C93C017}
Plot-observations of this Community Concept: 0
      Party Perspective according to: NatureServe (organization)
Perspective from: 15-Oct-2014 to: ongoing
      Names:   UID: ELEMENT_GLOBAL.2.860569 NatureServe ExplorerNatureServe Explorer logo
  Code: M077
  Scientific: Great Plains Saline Wet Meadow & Marsh Macrogroup