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CSC03 Herbaceous & Woody Developed Vegetation Cultural Subclass

Type Concept Sentence: Vegetation includes closely cropped vegetation such as lawns, gardens, sports fields, and golf courses, as well as vegetation growing in urban materials, such as pavement, from dry lands to emergent wetlands. Tree canopy varies from 0 to 100% (e.g., open to shaded lawns and gardens).


Common (Translated Scientific) Name: Herbaceous & Woody Developed Vegetation Cultural Subclass

Colloquial Name: Herbaceous & Woody Developed Vegetation

Hierarchy Level:  Cultural Subclass

Type Concept: Vegetation includes closely-cropped vegetation such as lawns, gardens, sports fields, and golf courses, as well as vegetation growing in urban materials, such as pavement, from dry lands to emergent wetlands. Tree canopy varies from 0 to 100% (e.g., open to shaded lawns and gardens).

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: Vegetation includes closely cropped vegetation such as lawns, gardens, sports fields, and golf courses, as well as vegetation growing in urban materials, such as pavement, from dry lands to emergent wetlands. Tree canopy varies from 0 to 100% (e.g., open to shaded lawns and gardens).

Floristics: No Data Available

Dynamics:  No Data Available

Environmental Description:  No Data Available

Geographic Range: Widely distributed across the globe, except in very dry or very cold regions.

Nations: CA,US

States/Provinces:  No Data Available



Confidence Level: Low

Confidence Level Comments: No Data Available

Grank: GNA

Greasons: No Data Available

Type Name Database Code Classification Code
Cultural Class CCL01 Anthromorphic Vegetation Cultural Class CCL01 7
Cultural Formation CFO09 Lawn, Garden & Recreational Vegetation Cultural Formation CFO09 7.C.1
Cultural Formation CFO10 Other Developed Vegetation Cultural Formation CFO10 7.C.2
Cultural Formation CFO11 Developed Wetland Vegetation Cultural Formation CFO11 7.C.3
Cultural Subclass CSC03 Herbaceous & Woody Developed Vegetation Cultural Subclass CSC03 7.C

Concept Lineage: No Data Available

Predecessors: No Data Available

Obsolete Names: No Data Available

Obsolete Parents: No Data Available

Synonomy: No Data Available

Concept Author(s): Hierarchy Revisions Working Group, Federal Geographic Data Committee (Faber-Langendoen et al. 2014)

Author of Description: D. Faber-Langendoen

Acknowledgements: No Data Available

Version Date: 10-17-14

  • Faber-Langendoen, D., T. Keeler-Wolf, D. Meidinger, C. Josse, A. Weakley, D. Tart, G. Navarro, B. Hoagland, S. Ponomarenko, J.-P. Saucier, G. Fults, and E. Helmer. 2015c. Classification and description of world formation types. General Technical Report RMRS-GTR-000. USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, Fort Collins, CO.