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CEGL005315 Rosa californica Wet Shrubland
Type Concept Sentence: No Data Available
Common (Translated Scientific) Name: California Wild Rose Wet Shrubland
Colloquial Name: No Data Available
Hierarchy Level: Association
Type Concept: This shrubland is known from the Sacramento River, Suisan Marsh and Pinnacles National Monument, and is expected to occur throughout California. The shrubland is an early-seral community, often found along roads, ditches, edges of drying marshes, riparian areas, washes, and other naturally disturbed or human-impacted areas. This shrubland ranges from less than 0.3 to over 2 m in height. Slopes are low (0-3%), and soils highly variable, from clay, silt loam, to sand. More natural settings are found along riparian areas and around wetlands, where it occurs in narrow strips. Rosa californica is the dominant and characteristic shrub, though Artemisia californica, Baccharis pilularis, Rubus armeniacus, Salix lasiolepis, Salvia mellifera, Sambucus nigra ssp. canadensis, and Symphoricarpos mollis may be equally important. Emergent trees such as Salix laevigata may be present. Herbaceous species may be present as well in an open understory, with many non-natives.
Diagnostic Characteristics: No Data Available
Rationale for Nominal Species or Physiognomic Features: No Data Available
Classification Comments: This is a common but poorly documented type. It is expected to occur throughout California.
Similar NVC Types: No Data Available
note: No Data Available
Physiognomy and Structure: No Data Available
Floristics: Rosa californica is the dominant and characteristic shrub, though Artemisia californica, Baccharis pilularis, Rubus armeniacus (= Rubus discolor), Salix lasiolepis, Salvia mellifera, Sambucus nigra ssp. canadensis, and Symphoricarpos mollis may be equally important. Emergent trees such as Salix laevigata may be present. Herbaceous species may be present as well in an open understory, with many non-natives.
Dynamics: No Data Available
Environmental Description: This is an early-seral community in which Rosa californica is dominant and conspicuous, often forming narrow briar patches along levees and roads, riparian areas, washes, lower-lying (drying) portions of marsh (Keeler-Wolf and Vaghti 2000), and other naturally disturbed or human-impacted areas. This shrubland ranges from less than 0.3 to over 2 m in height. Slopes are low (0-3%), and soils are highly variable, from clay, silt loam, to sand. More natural settings are found along riparian areas and around wetlands, where it occurs in narrow strips.
Geographic Range: This association is known from the Sacramento River, Suisan Marsh and Pinnacles National Monument, and is expected to occur throughout California.
Nations: US
States/Provinces: CA
Plot Analysis Summary:
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Confidence Level: Moderate
Confidence Level Comments: No Data Available
Grank: GNR
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.Nc Southwestern North American Warm Desert Freshwater Marsh & Bosque Division | D032 | 2.C.4.Nc |
| Macrogroup | 2.C.4.Nc.1 Warm Desert Lowland Freshwater Marsh, Wet Meadow & Shrubland Macrogroup | M076 | 2.C.4.Nc.1 |
| Group | 2.C.4.Nc.1.b Honey Mesquite - Velvet Mesquite - False Willow species North American Warm Desert Riparian Low Bosque & Shrubland Group | G533 | 2.C.4.Nc.1.b |
| Alliance | A3875 Common Buttonbush - California Wild Rose Wet Shrubland Alliance | A3875 | 2.C.4.Nc.1.b |
| Association | CEGL005315 California Wild Rose Wet Shrubland | CEGL005315 | 2.C.4.Nc.1.b |
Concept Lineage: No Data Available
Predecessors: No Data Available
Obsolete Names: No Data Available
Obsolete Parents: No Data Available
Synonomy: = Rosa californica (Sawyer et al. 2009) [63.907.02]
< Rosa californica Alliance (Keeler-Wolf and Vaghti 2000)
< Rosa californica Alliance (Hickson and Keeler-Wolf 2007)
= Rosa californica Association (Buck-Diaz et al. 2012)
= Rosa californica Shrubland (Kittel et al. 2012a)
= Rosa californica Shrubland Alliance (Keeler-Wolf and Evens 2006)
< Rosa californica Alliance (Keeler-Wolf and Vaghti 2000)
< Rosa californica Alliance (Hickson and Keeler-Wolf 2007)
= Rosa californica Association (Buck-Diaz et al. 2012)
= Rosa californica Shrubland (Kittel et al. 2012a)
= Rosa californica Shrubland Alliance (Keeler-Wolf and Evens 2006)
- Buck-Diaz, J., S. Batiuk, and J. M. Evens. 2012. Vegetation alliances and associations of the Great Valley ecoregion, California. California Native Society, Sacramento, CA. [http://cnps.org/cnps/vegetation/pdf/great_valley_eco-vegclass2012.pdf]
- Hickson, D., and T. Keeler-Wolf. 2007. Vegetation and land use classification and map of the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta. Prepared for the Bay Delta Region, California Department of Fish and Game by the Vegetation Classification and Mapping Program, California Department of Fish and Game, Sacramento. 152 pp. plus appendices.
- 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.
- Keeler-Wolf, T., and M. Vaghti. 2000. Vegetation mapping of Suisun Marsh, Solano County, California. A report to the California Department of Water Resources. California Department of Fish and Game, California Natural Diversity Database, Sacramento, CA.
- Kittel, G., E. Reyes, J. Evens, J. Buck, and D. Johnson. 2012a. Vegetation classification and mapping project report, Pinnacles National Monument. Natural Resource Report NPS/SFAN/NRR-2012/574. National Park Service, Fort Collins, CO. 428 pp.
- 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.