Drainage Complex Provisional Ecological Site Group

Description

Vegetation throughout this ecological site is a mosaic of mixed paper birch-white spruce (Betula papyrifera-Picea glauca) forest (typically on a slight rise above a minor flood plain) in the drier zone, tall alder (Alnus spp.) and alder-willow (Salix spp.) scrub on the moist zone, and small areas or thin bands of graminoid meadows in the wet zone.

Dominant plant species

1. paper birch (Betula papyrifera), tree

2. white spruce (Picea glauca), tree

3. willow (Salix), shrub

4. alder (Alnus), shrub

5. bluejoint (Calamagrostis canadensis), grass

6. sedge (Carex), grass

7. calliergon moss (Calliergon), grass

8. drepanocladus moss (Drepanocladus), grass

Submodel