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Key to Puget Trough Terrestrial Plant Associations


Introduction and Methods
Instructions for the Key
Names and Codes Used
Complete Species List
Association Tables
Citing This Document
Acknowledgements
References

Dominance types

Douglas-fir forests
Douglas-fir - grand fir forests
Douglas-fir - Pacific madrone forests
Douglas-fir - western hemlock - western redcedar forests
Grasslands
Lodgepole pine - Douglas-fir forests
Oregon white oak woodlands
Red alder - bigleaf maple forests
Savannas

Key to Douglas-fir - grand fir Forests

  • Salal > 10%
    • Beaked hazelnut or vine maple > 5% and sword fern > 5%
      .............................................................................. PSME-ABGR/COCO/POMU
    • Oceanspray or baldhip rose > 1% ....................................... PSME-ABGR/GASH

  • Sword fern > 5%

  • Oceanspray > 10% and common snowberry > 5% and sword fern present
    .......................................................................................... PSME-ABGR/HODI/POMU


  • Western fescue > 1% ................................................................... PSME-ABGR/FEOC


View association table (species list for each association, in MS Excel format) for Douglas-fir - grand fir Forests

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