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CSC02 Herbaceous Agricultural Vegetation Cultural Subclass

Type Concept Sentence: Agricultural vegetation, including row crops, planted grain crops, pastures, hayfields, horticultural crops (such as commercial flower operations), fallow fields and early-successional weed fields, and wetland rice and taro crop fields.


Common (Translated Scientific) Name: Herbaceous Agricultural Vegetation Cultural Subclass

Colloquial Name: Herbaceous Agricultural Vegetation

Hierarchy Level:  Cultural Subclass

Type Concept: Agricultural vegetation, including row crops, planted grain crops, pastures, hayfields, horticultural crops (such as commercial flower operations), fallow fields and early-successional weed fields, and wetland rice and taro crop fields.

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: Agricultural vegetation, including row crops, planted grain crops, pastures, hayfields, horticultural crops (such as commercial flower operations), fallow fields and early-successional weed fields, and wetland rice and taro crop fields.

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 CFO04 Row & Close Grain Crop Cultural Formation CFO04 7.B.1
Cultural Formation CFO05 Pasture & Hay Field Crop Cultural Formation CFO05 7.B.2
Cultural Formation CFO06 Herbaceous Horticultural Crop Cultural Formation CFO06 7.B.3
Cultural Formation CFO07 Fallow Field & Weed Vegetation Cultural Formation CFO07 7.B.4
Cultural Formation CFO08 Herbaceous Wetland Crop Cultural Formation CFO08 7.B.5
Cultural Subclass CSC02 Herbaceous Agricultural Vegetation Cultural Subclass CSC02 7.B

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.