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CEGL006016 Cladium mariscoides - Eleocharis equisetoides Marsh

Type Concept Sentence: No Data Available

Common (Translated Scientific) Name: Smooth Sawgrass - Horsetail Spikerush Marsh

Colloquial Name: Coastal Plain Horsetail Spikerush Peatland

Hierarchy Level:  Association

Type Concept: This wetland community of southern New England and the mid-Atlantic occurs on deep mucky soils of shallow depressions and is influenced by a long hydroperiod. Sedges and rushes are predominant, admixed with floating-leaved aquatics. No single species is dominant, but characteristically present are Cladium mariscoides, Rhynchospora alba, Rhynchospora inundata, Xyris smalliana, Eleocharis equisetoides, Schoenoplectus pungens, and Juncus canadensis. Nymphaea odorata also occurs, particularly where water is deeper.

Diagnostic Characteristics: No Data Available

Rationale for Nominal Species or Physiognomic Features: No Data Available

Classification Comments: No Data Available

Similar NVC Types: No Data Available
note: No Data Available
Physiognomy and Structure: No Data Available

Floristics: Sedges and rushes are predominant, admixed with floating-leaved aquatics. No single species is dominant, but characteristically present are Cladium mariscoides, Rhynchospora alba, Rhynchospora inundata, Xyris smalliana, Eleocharis equisetoides, Schoenoplectus pungens (= Scirpus pungens), and Juncus canadensis. Nymphaea odorata also occurs, particularly where water is deeper.

Dynamics:  No Data Available
Environmental Description:  Occurs in zones of Coastal Plain ponds in areas with permanent flooding over bottom substrates with loose cover of organic debris.
Geographic Range: Currently known from New Jersey, New York and Rhode Island, and possibly elsewhere.

Nations: US

States/Provinces:  NJ?, NY, RI


Confidence Level: Low - Poorly Documented

Confidence Level Comments: No Data Available
Grank: GNR

Greasons: No Data Available
Type Name Database Code Classification Code
Class 2 Shrub & Herb Vegetation Class C02 2
Subclass 2.C Shrub & Herb Wetland Subclass S44 2.C
Formation 2.C.4 Temperate to Polar Freshwater Marsh, Wet Meadow & Shrubland Formation F013 2.C.4
Division 2.C.4.Ne Atlantic & Gulf Coastal Marsh, Wet Meadow & Shrubland Division D322 2.C.4.Ne
Macrogroup 2.C.4.Ne.2 Beaksedge species - Spikerush species - Panicgrass species Atlantic & Gulf Coastal Plain Wet Prairie & Marsh Macrogroup M067 2.C.4.Ne.2
Group 2.C.4.Ne.2.h beaksedge spp. - spikerush spp. - meadowbeauty spp. Pondshore Group G916 2.C.4.Ne.2.h
Alliance A3397 Beaksedge species - Bluejoint - Virginia Meadowbeauty Coastal Plain Pondshore Marsh Alliance A3397 2.C.4.Ne.2.h
Association CEGL006016 Smooth Sawgrass - Horsetail Spikerush Marsh CEGL006016 2.C.4.Ne.2.h
Concept Lineage: No Data Available

Predecessors: No Data Available

Obsolete Names: No Data Available

Obsolete Parents: No Data Available
Synonomy: = Cladium mariscoides - Eleocharis equisetoides Herbaceous Vegetation (Walz et al. 2006b)
Concept Author(s): Eastern Ecology Group

Author of Description: S.L. Neid and L.A. Sneddon

Acknowledgements: No Data Available

Version Date: 06-26-12
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  • Walz, K. S., S. Stanford, N. L. Adamson, L. Kelly, K. Anderson, K. Laidig, and J. Bonnell. 2006b. Coastal Plain intermittent pondshore communities of New Jersey. New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection, Division of Parks and Forestry, Office of Natural Lands Management, Natural Heritage Program, Trenton, NJ. 50 pp.
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