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Boreal Woodland Gravelly Moist Alkaline Slopes
Circle-spoke model
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Description
The reference plant community is needleleaf woodland (Viereck et al. 1992) with the dominant trees being black spruce and white spruce. There are four plant communities within the reference state related to fire. While community 1.1 is supported with plot data, plant communities 1.2, 1.3, and 1.4 have limited data and are considered provisional concepts.
Dominant plant species
black spruce (Picea mariana), tree
white spruce (Picea glauca), tree
bog Labrador tea (Ledum groenlandicum), shrub
entireleaf mountain-avens (Dryas integrifolia ssp. sylvatica), shrub
Bigelow's sedge (Carex bigelowii), grass
northern singlespike sedge (Carex scirpoidea), grass
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