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CEGL003732 Salvia mellifera - Rhus ovata Shrubland
Type Concept Sentence: No Data Available
Common (Translated Scientific) Name: Black Sage - Sugar Sumac Shrubland
Colloquial Name: No Data Available
Hierarchy Level: Association
Type Concept: This shrubland association occurs on gentle to steep northeast- and southeast-facing slopes at low elevations between 140 and 618 m. It is characterized a dominance of Salvia mellifera and a subdominance of Rhus ovata in the shrub layer. The herbaceous and tree layers are insignificant.
Diagnostic Characteristics: No Data Available
Rationale for Nominal Species or Physiognomic Features: No Data Available
Classification Comments: Heteromeles arbutifolia is a less common associate of this type in western Riverside County than in the Santa Monica Mountains.
Similar NVC Types: No Data Available
note: No Data Available
Physiognomy and Structure: No Data Available
Floristics: Vegetation is characterized a dominance of Salvia mellifera and a subdominance of Rhus ovata in the shrub layer. The herbaceous and tree layers are insignificant. Samples from western Riverside County (Klein and Evens 2006) add the following information: In this association, Rhus ovata is consistently present as a codominant or subdominant shrub. Eriogonum fasciculatum, Artemisia californica, Encelia farinosa, Adenostoma fasciculatum, and Ceanothus crassifolius are occasionally to often present as subdominant shrubs.
Dynamics: No Data Available
Environmental Description: This association has only been described from the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area. Until further inventory is completed, there is no global information.
Geographic Range: This association is known from the Santa Monica Mountains and western Riverside County (Klein and Evens 2005). Information about its global distribution is not available without additional inventory, but it is likely to include much of interior southern coastal California inland from the immediate coast.
Nations: US
States/Provinces: CA
Plot Analysis Summary:
http://vegbank.org/natureserve/ELEMENT_GLOBAL.2.790240
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.B Temperate & Boreal Grassland & Shrubland Subclass | S18 | 2.B |
| Formation | 2.B.1 Mediterranean Scrub & Grassland Formation | F038 | 2.B.1 |
| Division | 2.B.1.Na Californian Scrub & Grassland Division | D327 | 2.B.1.Na |
| Macrogroup | 2.B.1.Na.2 Coastal Sagebrush - Black Sage - Coyotebrush Coastal Scrub Macrogroup | M044 | 2.B.1.Na.2 |
| Group | 2.B.1.Na.2.b Coastal Sagebrush - Black Sage - White Sage Coastal Scrub Group | G264 | 2.B.1.Na.2.b |
| Alliance | A3883 Coastal Sagebrush - San Luis Purple Sage Mesic Scrub Alliance | A3883 | 2.B.1.Na.2.b |
| Association | CEGL003732 Black Sage - Sugar Sumac Shrubland | CEGL003732 | 2.B.1.Na.2.b |
Concept Lineage: The provisional/placeholder CEGL003105 has been replaced with several new types: CEGL003727, CEGL003728, CEGL003730, and CEGL003732.
Predecessors: No Data Available
Obsolete Names: No Data Available
Obsolete Parents: No Data Available
Synonomy: = Salvia mellifera - Rhus ovata (Sawyer et al. 2009) [32.020.11]
= Salvia mellifera-Rhus ovata Shrubland Association (Keeler-Wolf and Evens 2006)
< Salvia mellifera (Klein and Evens 2006)
= Salvia mellifera-Rhus ovata Shrubland Association (Keeler-Wolf and Evens 2006)
< Salvia mellifera (Klein and Evens 2006)
- Keeler-Wolf, T., and J. Evens. 2006. Vegetation classification of the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area and environs in Ventura and Los Angeles counties, California. A report submitted to National Park Service, Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area by California Department of Fish and Game, Wildlife and Habitat Data Analysis Branch and The California Native Plant Society, Vegetation Program, Sacramento, CA.
- Klein, A., and J. Evens. 2006. Vegetation alliances of western Riverside County, California. Contract Number: P0185404. Final report prepared for The California Department of Fish and Game, Habitat Conservation Division. California Native Plant Society, Sacramento, CA. 332 pp. [http://www.dfg.ca.gov/biogeodata/vegcamp/pdfs/VegMappingRpt_Western_Riverside.pdf]
- 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.
- Western Ecology Working Group of NatureServe. No date. International Ecological Classification Standard: International Vegetation Classification. Terrestrial Vegetation. NatureServe, Boulder, CO.