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CEGL005103 Cladium mariscoides - Carex cryptolepis - Rhynchospora alba - Juncus canadensis Fen
Type Concept Sentence: No Data Available
Common (Translated Scientific) Name: Smooth Sawgrass - Northeastern Sedge - White Beaksedge - Canadian Rush Fen
Colloquial Name: Smooth Sawgrass Fen
Hierarchy Level: Association
Type Concept: This community is found in northwestern Ohio and possibly in northeastern Indiana and Ontario, where it is found on mineral/peaty soils, and in a disjunct stand in New Jersey. Stands contain Cladium mariscoides, Carex cryptolepis, Juncus canadensis, and Rhynchospora alba. Further characterization is needed. Few sites are known, the largest from Springville Marsh (in Seneca County near the border with Wyandot) is fairly degraded. It was thought to have been a complex of fen, wet meadow and tallgrass prairie, and was over 30 miles long and a few miles wide. Currently, there are at least 8-10 small meadow/fen openings. They are under serious threat from invasive species such as Typha angustifolia, and from woody species such as Cornus amomum. The site may also suffer from a drop in water table due to adjacent agriculture. The New Jersey site occurs in a lake basin and is characterized by Cladium mariscoides, Schoenoplectus acutus, Thelypteris palustris, Proserpinaca palustris, and Juncus canadensis, with low cover of other herbs, including Carex cryptolepis, Eleocharis elliptica, Lobelia kalmii, and others.
Diagnostic Characteristics: No Data Available
Rationale for Nominal Species or Physiognomic Features: No Data Available
Classification Comments: Further characterization of this type is needed before it can become a national type. Currently only one stand is known, from Springville Marsh (in Seneca County near the border with Wyandot), and that site is fairly degraded. It was thought to have been a complex of fen, wet meadow and tallgrass prairie, and was over 30 miles long and a few miles wide. Currently, there are at least 8 to 10 small meadow/fen openings. They are under serious threat from invasive species, such as Typha angustifolia, and from woody species, such as Cornus amomum. The site may also suffer from a drop in water table due to adjacent agriculture (Schneider and Cochrane 1997). Until that stand description can be compared against others the status of this type is indeterminate. A historic description of this type is available in Bonzer (1903) (reference at the Ohio State Natural Heritage Program, G. Schneider pers. comm. 2000). It may be very closely related to the ~Dasiphora fruticosa / Carex sterilis - Andropogon gerardii - Arnoglossum plantagineum Fen (CEGL005139)$$ a more widespread cinquefoil-sedge prairie fen type, and that is the type that Ohio tracks it under (Schneider and Cochrane 1997).
Similar NVC Types: No Data Available
note: No Data Available
Physiognomy and Structure: No Data Available
Floristics: No Data Available
Dynamics: No Data Available
Environmental Description: No Data Available
Geographic Range: This community is found in the southern Great Lakes region of the United States and Canada, particularly in northwest Ohio, and in a disjunct location in northern New Jersey, and possibly elsewhere.
Nations: CA,US
States/Provinces: IN?, MI?, NJ, OH, ON
Plot Analysis Summary:
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Confidence Level: Low - Poorly Documented
Confidence Level Comments: No Data Available
Grank: GNRQ
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.2 Temperate to Polar Bog & Fen Formation | F016 | 2.C.2 |
| Division | 2.C.2.Na North American Bog & Fen Division | D029 | 2.C.2.Na |
| Macrogroup | 2.C.2.Na.2 Shrubby cinquefoil - Woolly-fruit Sedge / Star Campylium Moss Alkaline Fen Macrogroup | M877 | 2.C.2.Na.2 |
| Group | 2.C.2.Na.2.b Shrubby-cinquefoil / Dioecious Sedge - Smooth Sawgrass Alkaline Fen Group | G183 | 2.C.2.Na.2.b |
| Alliance | A3704 Shrubby-cinquefoil / Riddell''s Goldenrod - Big Bluestem Graminoid Fen Alliance | A3704 | 2.C.2.Na.2.b |
| Association | CEGL005103 Smooth Sawgrass - Northeastern Sedge - White Beaksedge - Canadian Rush Fen | CEGL005103 | 2.C.2.Na.2.b |
Concept Lineage: No Data Available
Predecessors: No Data Available
Obsolete Names: No Data Available
Obsolete Parents: No Data Available
Synonomy: = Cladium mariscoides - Carex cryptolepis - Rhynchospora alba - Juncus canadensis Herbaceous Vegetation [Provisional] (Faber-Langendoen 2001)
- Faber-Langendoen, D., editor. 2001. Plant communities of the Midwest: Classification in an ecological context. Association for Biodiversity Information, Arlington, VA. 61 pp. plus appendix (705 pp.).
- Homoya, M. A., J. Aldrich, J. Bacone, L. Casebere, and T. Post. 1988. Indiana natural community classification. Indiana Natural Heritage Program, Indianapolis, IN. Unpublished manuscript.
- Kost, M. A., D. A. Albert, J. G. Cohen, B. S. Slaughter, R. K. Schillo, C. R. Weber, and K. A. Chapman. 2007. Natural communities of Michigan: Classification and description. Report No. 2007-21, Michigan Natural Features Inventory, Lansing. 314 pp. [http://web4.msue.msu.edu/mnfi/reports/2007-21_Natural_Communites_of_Michigan_Classification_and_Description.pdf]
- Midwestern Ecology Working Group of NatureServe. No date. International Ecological Classification Standard: International Vegetation Classification. Terrestrial Vegetation. NatureServe, Minneapolis, MN.
- ONHD [Ohio Natural Heritage Database]. No date. Vegetation classification of Ohio and unpublished data. Ohio Natural Heritage Database, Division of Natural Areas and Preserves, Ohio Department of Natural Resources, Columbus.
- ONHIC [Ontario Natural Heritage Information Centre]. 2018. Unpublished data. Ontario Natural Heritage Information Centre, Ministry of Natural Resources, Ontario, Canada.
- Schneider, G. J., and K. E. Cochrane. 1997. Plant community survey of the Lake Erie drainage. A final report to The Nature Conservancy, Great Lakes Program (Chicago, IL) and The Ohio Chapter (Columbus, OH), and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency - Great Lakes National Program Office (Chicago, IL). 158 pp.