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CEGL004462 Typha latifolia - Pontederia cordata Marsh

Type Concept Sentence: No Data Available

Common (Translated Scientific) Name: Broadleaf Cattail - Pickerelweed Marsh

Colloquial Name: No Data Available

Hierarchy Level:  Association

Type Concept: This is a freshwater marsh association of peat soils of seasonally flooded depressions in the Coastal Plain of Florida. It is dominated almost exclusively by Typha latifolia and Pontederia cordata.

Diagnostic Characteristics: No Data Available

Rationale for Nominal Species or Physiognomic Features: No Data Available

Classification Comments: Examples are known at Paynes Prairie State Preserve, Alachua County, Florida.

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

Floristics: This freshwater marsh association is dominated almost exclusively by Typha latifolia and Pontederia cordata.

Dynamics:  No Data Available
Environmental Description:  This cattail marsh association occurs in seasonally flooded depressions in the Coastal Plain of Florida.
Geographic Range: This type occurs in the Coastal Plain of Florida.

Nations: US

States/Provinces:  FL


Confidence Level: Low

Confidence Level Comments: No Data Available
Grank: G3?

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.a Pickerelweed - Maidencane River & Basin Freshwater Marsh & Wet Meadow Group G188 2.C.4.Ne.2.a
Alliance A3407 Softstem Bulrush - Pickerelweed - Maidencane Basin Marsh Alliance A3407 2.C.4.Ne.2.a
Association CEGL004462 Broadleaf Cattail - Pickerelweed Marsh CEGL004462 2.C.4.Ne.2.a
Concept Lineage: No Data Available

Predecessors: No Data Available

Obsolete Names: No Data Available

Obsolete Parents: No Data Available
Synonomy: < Basin - marshes (Patton and Judd 1986) [There are a couple Basin - marshes associations in this paper.]
Concept Author(s): J. Patton and W. Judd (1986)

Author of Description: A.S. Weakley and H. Summer

Acknowledgements: No Data Available

Version Date: 12-05-07
  • FNAI [Florida Natural Areas Inventory]. 2010a. Guide to the natural communities of Florida: 2010 edition. Florida Natural Areas Inventory, Tallahassee, FL. 228 pp. [https://fnai.org/naturalcommguide.cfm]
  • Patton, J. E., and W. S. Judd. 1986. Vascular flora of Paynes Prairie Basin and Alachua Sink Hammock, Alachua County, Florida. Castanea 51:88-110.
  • Southeastern Ecology Working Group of NatureServe. No date. International Ecological Classification Standard: International Vegetation Classification. Terrestrial Vegetation. NatureServe, Durham, NC.