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CEGL001552 Artemisia cana ssp. viscidula / Festuca idahoensis Shrub Wet Meadow

Type Concept Sentence: No Data Available


Common (Translated Scientific) Name: Mountain Silver Sagebrush / Idaho Fescue Shrub Wet Meadow

Colloquial Name: Silver Sagebrush / Idaho Fescue Wet Shrubland

Hierarchy Level:  Association

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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
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Physiognomy and Structure: No Data Available

Floristics: No Data Available

Dynamics:  No Data Available

Environmental Description:  No Data Available

Geographic Range: No Data Available

Nations: US

States/Provinces:  CO, ID, MT




Confidence Level: Low - Poorly Documented

Confidence Level Comments: No Data Available

Grank: G3?

Greasons: No Data Available


Concept Lineage: No Data Available

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Obsolete Names: No Data Available

Obsolete Parents: No Data Available

Synonomy: No Data Available

Concept Author(s): Western Ecology Group

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