La vegetacion asociada estuvo compuesta principalmente por hierbas compuestas y gramineas como: Hypochaeris taraxacoides, Paranephelius ovatus, Misbrookea strigosissima,
Calamagrostis rigida,
Calamagrostis macrophylla, Nassella pubiflora y Jarava ichu; ademas de especies arbustivas de porte bajo como: Chuquiraga spinosa, Baccharis odorata, Senecio collinus y Lupinus condensiflorus.
Calamagrostis purpurascens (purple reedgrass), Hesperostipa comata (needle-and-thread grass), Pseudoroegneria spicata (bluebunch wheatgrass), and Poa glauca (glaucous bluegrass), each in combination with Artemisia frigida (pasture sagewort), form xerophytic grassland communities in the Carmacks region (Strong, 2015) and farther west.
The following species of plants were presented at that plot:
Calamagrostis epigejos (L.) Roth., Bromopsis inermis (Leyss.) Holub, Artemisia absinthium L., Artemisia austriaca Jacq., Artemisia campestris L., Nonea pulla (L.) DC., Sisymbrium loeselii L., and Chamaecytisus ruthenicus (Fisch.
Pooideae Brachypodium 1 spp., Bromus 6 [29 generos, 136 spp., Melica 1 spp., Triniochloa 1 spp.] spp., Agrostis 7 spp., Alopecurus 2 spp., Anthoxantum 1 spp., Avena 3 spp.,
Calamagrostis 20 spp., Dactylis 1 spp., Dielsiochloa 1 spp., Festuca 25 spp., Koeleria 2 spp., Lolium 1 spp., Poidium 1 spp., Polypogon 2 spp., Trisetum 3 spp., Poa 30 spp., Vulpia 3 spp., Aciachne 2 spp., Anatherostipa 1 spp., Jarava 4 spp., Nassella 8 spp., Orthachne 1 spp., Piptochaetium 1 spp., Elymus 1 spp., Hordeum 1spp., Secale 1 spp.,
Se observa la vegetacion tipica de pajonal, compuesta generalmente por los generos
Calamagrostis y Festuca, entre otras de la familia Poaceae.
--Plants which tolerate carrying up of the sand and stabilize the PBD--Lathyrus maritimus, Carex arenaria,
Calamagrostis epigeios, Gypsophila paniculata, Eryngium maritimum and Petasines spurius (Retz.) Reichb.
If you grow switch grass, fountain grass or
Calamagrostis spp., don't trim them back--enjoy them as they sway in the wind and collect frost and snow on their tips.
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Calamagrostis Foliosa PLOT STARTING ENDING % HxW HxW CHANGE 1A 2.0/11.0 2.2/11.8 10/7.3 1B 2.6/11.2 3.4/14.4 30.8/28.6 2A 2.4/10.6 2.75/12.4 14.6/16.9 2B 2.6/11 2.2/13.4 15.4/21.8 3A 2.6/11.8 2.7/13.8 3.9/16.9 3B 2.8/11.8 2.7/13.2 4/11.9 4A 2.2/11.4 3.1/11.2 41/1.8 4B 1.8/10.8 3.9/11.4 116.7/5.6 Plant No.
(iii) The Szelce Valley site is an unmowed part of a largely mowed, desiccated marshy meadow characterized by Cirsium palustre and tall grasses (Dactylis polygama,
Calamagrostis arundinacea) and sedges (Carex spp.).