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CEGL005292 Equisetum fluviatile Western Boreal Marsh

Type Concept Sentence: No Data Available


Common (Translated Scientific) Name: Water Horsetail Western Boreal Marsh

Colloquial Name: No Data Available

Hierarchy Level:  Association

Type Concept: No Data Available

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
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: No Data Available

Nations: CA,US

States/Provinces:  AB, AK, BC, SK?




Confidence Level: Low

Confidence Level Comments: No Data Available

Grank: GNR

Greasons: No Data Available


Concept Lineage: Upgraded to Standard during screening.

Predecessors: No Data Available

Obsolete Names: No Data Available

Obsolete Parents: No Data Available

Synonomy: = Equisetum fluviatile - Carex utriculata (MacKenzie and Moran 2004) [Carex utriculata sometimes codominates; throughout the interior of BC]
= Equisetum fluviatile (Viereck et al. 1992) [III.B.3.a. Fresh Herb Marsh, citing Craighead et al. (1988), Racine (1976), Ritchie et al. (1981).]

Concept Author(s): Western Ecology Group

Author of Description: No Data Available

Acknowledgements: No Data Available

Version Date: 04-06-12

  • Craighead, J. J., F. L. Craighead, D. J. Craighead, and R. L. Redmond. 1988. Mapping arctic vegetation in northwest Alaska using Landsat MSS Imagery. National Geographic Research 4(4):496-527.
  • MacKenzie, W. H., and J. R. Moran. 2004. Wetlands of British Columbia: A guide to identification. Land Management Handbook No. 52. Research Branch, British Columbia Ministry of Forests and Lands, Victoria, BC. 287 pp.
  • Racine, C. H. 1976. Flora and vegetation. Pages 39-139 in: H. R. Melchior, editor. Biological survey of the proposed Kobuk Valley National Monument. Final report. USDI National Park Service, Fairbanks, AK, and Alaska Cooperative Park Studies Unit, Biological and Resource Management Program, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, AK.
  • Ritchie, R., J. Curatolo, and A. Batten. 1981. Knik Arm wetland study. Final report. Alaska Biological Research, Fairbanks. 195 pp.
  • Viereck, L. A., C. T. Dyrness, A. R. Batten, and K. J. Wenzlick. 1992. The Alaska vegetation classification. General Technical Report PNW-GTR286. USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station, Portland, OR. 278 pp.
  • Western Ecology Working Group of NatureServe. No date. International Ecological Classification Standard: International Vegetation Classification. Terrestrial Vegetation. NatureServe, Boulder, CO.