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CFO06 Herbaceous Horticultural Crop Cultural Formation

Type Concept Sentence: Agricultural vegetation, including horticultural crops (such as commercial flower operations).

Common (Translated Scientific) Name: Herbaceous Horticultural Crop Cultural Formation

Colloquial Name: Herbaceous Horticultural Crop

Hierarchy Level:  Cultural Formation

Type Concept: Agricultural vegetation, including horticultural crops (such as commercial flower operations).

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 horticultural crops (such as commercial flower operations).

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: AU,CA,US

States/Provinces:  No Data Available

Confidence Level: None

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 CFO06 Herbaceous Horticultural Crop Cultural Formation CFO06 7.B.3
Cultural Subclass CSC02 Herbaceous Agricultural Vegetation Cultural Subclass CSC02 7.B
Cultural Subformation CSF15 Flower Horticultural Crop Cultural Subformation CSF15 7.B.3.1
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.