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CEGL003471 Spartina foliosa Salt Marsh
Type Concept Sentence: No Data Available
Common (Translated Scientific) Name: California Cordgrass Salt Marsh
Colloquial Name: No Data Available
Hierarchy Level: Association
Type Concept: This association is known from the Point Reyes National Seashore and from Suisun Marsh in California. Information about its global characteristics is not available without additional inventory. Other anecdotal observations in San Pablo Bay and San Francisco Bay suggest that it regularly occupies the outer edges of tidal mudflats in the areas with deepest tidal water. Salicornia depressa typically occupies the landward edges of the stands. This association is found on flat, linear/even basins/wetlands with no slope. It occurs on medium silt soil textures and silty alluvium parent material. Typically stands are monotypes with Spartina foliosa comprising most or all of the vegetative cover, occasionally with some minor cover of Salicornia depressa and algae.
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: Typically stands are monotypes with Spartina foliosa comprising most or all of the vegetative cover, occasionally with some minor cover of Salicornia depressa (= Salicornia virginica).
Dynamics: No Data Available
Environmental Description: This association is known from the Point Reyes National Seashore and from Suisun Marsh (Keeler-Wolf et al. 2000). Other anecdotal observations in San Pablo Bay and San Francisco Bay suggest that it regularly occupies the outer edges of tidal mudflats in the areas with deepest tidal water. Salicornia depressa typically occupies the landward edges of the stands.
Geographic Range: This association is only known from the Point Reyes National Seashore and from Suisun Marsh, California (Keeler-Wolf et al. 2000). Information about its global characteristics is not available without additional inventory. However, anecdotal information discussing relatively pure stands of Spartina foliosa (e.g., Hickman 1993) suggests that this association occurs throughout coastal salt marshes of California south to the Pacific coast of Mexico.
Nations: US
States/Provinces: CA
Plot Analysis Summary:
http://vegbank.org/natureserve/ELEMENT_GLOBAL.2.687153
Confidence Level: Moderate
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.5 Salt Marsh Formation | F035 | 2.C.5 |
| Division | 2.C.5.Nc Temperate & Boreal Pacific Coastal Salt Marsh Division | D035 | 2.C.5.Nc |
| Macrogroup | 2.C.5.Nc.1 North American Pacific Coastal Salt Marsh Macrogroup | M081 | 2.C.5.Nc.1 |
| Group | 2.C.5.Nc.1.a Lyngbye''s Sedge - Cosmopolitan Bulrush - Sea-milkwort Salt Marsh Group | G499 | 2.C.5.Nc.1.a |
| Alliance | A3902 Pacific Swampfire - California Cordgrass - Sea-milkwort Salt Marsh Alliance | A3902 | 2.C.5.Nc.1.a |
| Association | CEGL003471 California Cordgrass Salt Marsh | CEGL003471 | 2.C.5.Nc.1.a |
Concept Lineage: No Data Available
Predecessors: No Data Available
Obsolete Names: No Data Available
Obsolete Parents: No Data Available
Synonomy: = Spartina foliosa Association (Sproul et al. 2011)
= Spartina foliosa (Sawyer et al. 2009) [52.020.02]
= Spartina foliosa Association (Schirokauer et al. 2003) [pi code 56010]
= Spartina foliosa Herbaceous Vegetation (Keeler-Wolf et al. 2000)
= Spartina foliosa (Sawyer et al. 2009) [52.020.02]
= Spartina foliosa Association (Schirokauer et al. 2003) [pi code 56010]
= Spartina foliosa Herbaceous Vegetation (Keeler-Wolf et al. 2000)
- Hickman, J. C. 1993. The Jepson manual: Higher plants of California. University of California Press, Ltd., Berkeley, CA. 1400 pp.
- Keeler-Wolf, T., M. Vaghti, and A. Kilgore. 2000. Vegetation mapping of Suisun Marsh, Solano County: A report to the California Department of Water Resources. Administrative report on file at California Natural Diversity Database, California Department of Fish and Game, Sacramento.
- Sawyer, J. O., T. Keeler-Wolf, and J. Evens. 2009. A manual of California vegetation. Second edition. California Native Plant Society, Sacramento CA. 1300 pp.
- Schirokauer, D., T. Keeler-Wolf, J. Meinke, and P. van der Leeden. 2003. Plant community classification and mapping project. Point Reyes National Seashore, Golden Gate National Recreation Area, San Francisco Water Department Watershed Lands, Mount Tamalpais, Tomales Bay, and Samuel P. Taylor State Parks. Final report. California State Department of Fish and Game, Wildlife and Habitat Data Analysis Branch, Sacramento, National Park Service, Point Reyes Station, and Aerial Information Systems, Redlands, CA. 82 pp. [http://biology.usgs.gov/npsveg/pore_goga/index.html]
- Sproul, F., T. Keeler-Wolf, P. Gordon-Reedy, J. Dunn, A. Klein, and K. Harper. 2011. Vegetation classification manual for western San Diego County. AECOM, California Department of Fish and Game, San Diego Area Governments.
- Western Ecology Working Group of NatureServe. No date. International Ecological Classification Standard: International Vegetation Classification. Terrestrial Vegetation. NatureServe, Boulder, CO.