Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures
- Preface and Acknowledgements
- Preamble
- Salt-marsh communities
- COMMUNITY DESCRIPTIONS
- SM1: Zostera communities: Zosterion Christiansen 1934
- SM2: Ruppia maritima salt-marsh community: Ruppietum maritimae Hocquette 1927
- SM3: Eleocharis parvula salt-marsh community: Eleocharitetum parvulae (Preuss 1911/12) Gillner 1960
- SM4: Spartina maritima salt-marsh community: Spartinetum maritimae (Emb. & Regn. 1926) Corillion 1953
- SM5: Spartina alterniflora salt-marsh community: Spartinetum alterniflorae Corillion 1953
- SM6: Spartina anglica salt-marsh community: Spartinetum townsendii (Tansley 1939) Corillion 1953
- SM7: Arthrocnemum perenne stands
- SM8: Annual Salicornia salt-marsh community: Salicornietum europaeae Warming 1906
- SM9: Suaeda maritima salt-marsh community: Suaedetum maritimae (Conrad 1935) Pignatti 1953
- SM10: Transitional low-marsh vegetation with Puccinellia maritima, annual: Salicornia species and Suaeda maritima
- SM11: Aster tripolium var. discoideus salt-marsh community: Asteretum tripolii Tansley 1939
- SM12: Rayed Aster tripolium on salt-marshes
- SM13: Puccinellia maritima salt-marsh community: Puccinellietum maritimae (Warming 1906) Christiansen 1927
- SM14: Halimione portulacoides salt-marsh community: Halimionetum portulacoidis (Kuhnholtz-Lordat 1927) Des Abbayes & Corillion 1949
- SM15: Juncus maritimus-Triglochin maritima salt-marsh community
- SM16: Festuca rubra salt-marsh community: Juncetum gerardi Warming 1906
- SM17: Artemisia maritima salt-marsh community: Artemisietum maritimae Hocquette 1927
- SM18: Juncus maritimus salt-marsh community
- SM19: Blysmus rufus salt-marsh community: Blysmetum rufi (G. E. & G. Du Rietz 1925) Gillner 1960
- SM20: Eleocharis uniglumis salt-marsh community: Eleocharitetum uniglumis Nordhagen 1923
- SM21: Suaeda vera-Limonium binervosum salt-marsh community
- SM22: Halimione portulacoides-Frankenia laevis salt-marsh community: Limonio vulgaris-Frankenietum laevis Géhu & Géhu-Franck 1975
- SM23: Spergularia marina-Puccinellia distans salt-marsh community: Puccinellietum distantis Feekes (1934) 1945
- SM24: Elymus pycnanthus salt-marsh community: Atriplici-Elymetum pycnanthi Beeftink & Westhoff 1962
- SM25: Suaeda vera drift-line community: Elymo pycnanthi-Suaedetum verae (Arènes 1933) Géhu 1975
- SM26: Inula crithmoides on salt-marshes
- SM27: Ephemeral salt-marsh vegetation with Sagina maritima: Saginion maritimae Westhoff, van Leeuwen & Adriani 1962
- SM28: Elymus repens salt-marsh community: Elymetum repentis maritimum Nordhagen 1940
- Shingle, strandline and sand-dune communities
- COMMUNITY DESCRIPTIONS
- Maritime cliff communities
- COMMUNITY DESCRIPTIONS
- Vegetation of open habitats
- COMMUNITY DESCRIPTIONS
- INDEX OF SYNONYMS TO MARITIME COMMUNITIES AND VEGETATION OF OPEN HABITATS
- INDEX OF SPECIES IN MARITIME COMMUNITIES AND VEGETATION OF OPEN HABITATS
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- PHYTOSOCIOLOGICAL CONSPECTUS OF BRITISH PLANT COMMUNITIES
SM28: Elymus repens salt-marsh community: Elymetum repentis maritimum Nordhagen 1940
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 September 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures
- Preface and Acknowledgements
- Preamble
- Salt-marsh communities
- COMMUNITY DESCRIPTIONS
- SM1: Zostera communities: Zosterion Christiansen 1934
- SM2: Ruppia maritima salt-marsh community: Ruppietum maritimae Hocquette 1927
- SM3: Eleocharis parvula salt-marsh community: Eleocharitetum parvulae (Preuss 1911/12) Gillner 1960
- SM4: Spartina maritima salt-marsh community: Spartinetum maritimae (Emb. & Regn. 1926) Corillion 1953
- SM5: Spartina alterniflora salt-marsh community: Spartinetum alterniflorae Corillion 1953
- SM6: Spartina anglica salt-marsh community: Spartinetum townsendii (Tansley 1939) Corillion 1953
- SM7: Arthrocnemum perenne stands
- SM8: Annual Salicornia salt-marsh community: Salicornietum europaeae Warming 1906
- SM9: Suaeda maritima salt-marsh community: Suaedetum maritimae (Conrad 1935) Pignatti 1953
- SM10: Transitional low-marsh vegetation with Puccinellia maritima, annual: Salicornia species and Suaeda maritima
- SM11: Aster tripolium var. discoideus salt-marsh community: Asteretum tripolii Tansley 1939
- SM12: Rayed Aster tripolium on salt-marshes
- SM13: Puccinellia maritima salt-marsh community: Puccinellietum maritimae (Warming 1906) Christiansen 1927
- SM14: Halimione portulacoides salt-marsh community: Halimionetum portulacoidis (Kuhnholtz-Lordat 1927) Des Abbayes & Corillion 1949
- SM15: Juncus maritimus-Triglochin maritima salt-marsh community
- SM16: Festuca rubra salt-marsh community: Juncetum gerardi Warming 1906
- SM17: Artemisia maritima salt-marsh community: Artemisietum maritimae Hocquette 1927
- SM18: Juncus maritimus salt-marsh community
- SM19: Blysmus rufus salt-marsh community: Blysmetum rufi (G. E. & G. Du Rietz 1925) Gillner 1960
- SM20: Eleocharis uniglumis salt-marsh community: Eleocharitetum uniglumis Nordhagen 1923
- SM21: Suaeda vera-Limonium binervosum salt-marsh community
- SM22: Halimione portulacoides-Frankenia laevis salt-marsh community: Limonio vulgaris-Frankenietum laevis Géhu & Géhu-Franck 1975
- SM23: Spergularia marina-Puccinellia distans salt-marsh community: Puccinellietum distantis Feekes (1934) 1945
- SM24: Elymus pycnanthus salt-marsh community: Atriplici-Elymetum pycnanthi Beeftink & Westhoff 1962
- SM25: Suaeda vera drift-line community: Elymo pycnanthi-Suaedetum verae (Arènes 1933) Géhu 1975
- SM26: Inula crithmoides on salt-marshes
- SM27: Ephemeral salt-marsh vegetation with Sagina maritima: Saginion maritimae Westhoff, van Leeuwen & Adriani 1962
- SM28: Elymus repens salt-marsh community: Elymetum repentis maritimum Nordhagen 1940
- Shingle, strandline and sand-dune communities
- COMMUNITY DESCRIPTIONS
- Maritime cliff communities
- COMMUNITY DESCRIPTIONS
- Vegetation of open habitats
- COMMUNITY DESCRIPTIONS
- INDEX OF SYNONYMS TO MARITIME COMMUNITIES AND VEGETATION OF OPEN HABITATS
- INDEX OF SPECIES IN MARITIME COMMUNITIES AND VEGETATION OF OPEN HABITATS
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- PHYTOSOCIOLOGICAL CONSPECTUS OF BRITISH PLANT COMMUNITIES
Summary
Synonymy
Elymetum repentis maritimum, Elymus repens, Potentilla anserina-Elymus repens-Vicia and Elymus repens-Potentilla anserina soziations? Nordhagen 1940.
Constant species
Agrostis stolonifera, Atriplex prostrata, Elymus repens, Festuca rubra.
Rare species
Allium scorodoprasum, Hordeum marinum.
Physiognomy
The Elymetum repentis has a closed grassy sward up to about 1 m tall, generally dominated by Elymus repens with usually smaller amounts of Festuca rubra and Agrostis stolonifera and, beneath, scattered plants of Atriplex prostrata and an open ground cover of Potentilla anserina. Oenanthe lachenalii, Sonchus arvensis, Rumex crispus and Cirsium arvense are occasional and often give a scruffy appearance to the vegetation and tussocks of Juncus gerardii or Festuca arundinacea may be locally prominent. The community is generally richer and more varied than the Atriplici-Elymetum with a wide range of occasionals of low frequency, some characteristic of other disturbed upper-marsh vegetation of strand-lines and reclamation banks, others more typical of rank inland grasslands. Allium scorodoprasum has been recorded in vegetation of this kind on the north Solway coast and Hordeum marinum from Somerset. Bryophytes occur occasionally with Eurhynchium praelongum, Amblystegium riparium, Funaria hygrometrica, Pottia heimii and Bryum spp.
Habitat
The community is characteristic of similar situations to those occupied by the Atriplici-Elymetum: upper-marsh areas where there is often a combination of disturbance, drift-litter deposition and some freshwater influence. It is, however, less consistently confined to well-drained sites, occasionally growing on heavy waterlogged clays.
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- British Plant Communities , pp. 110 - 112Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2000