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Key to Puget Trough Terrestrial Plant Associations


Introduction and Methods
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Complete Species List
Association Tables
Citing This Document
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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 Oak Woodlands

  • Oval-leaf viburnum + poison-oak > 10% and each present ................. QUGA/VIEL-TODI


  • Common snowberry > 10%
    • Douglas-fir > 25% and sword fern present ................ QUGA-PSME/SYAL/POMU
    • Oregon ash > 25% ........................................................... QUGA-(FRLA)/SYAL
    • Sword fern + enchanter’s nightshade + Siberian springbeauty +
      starry solomon’s seal > 1%
      • Riparian or wetland fringe site .................................. QUGA-(FRLA)/SYAL
      • Douglas-fir > 10% or Douglas-fir stumps numerous, not a
        riparian or wetland fringe site ......................... QUGA-PSME/SYAL/POMU

      • Poison-oak and oceanspray each > 10% ...................... QUGA/VIEL/TODI
    • Long-stolon sedge or blue wildrye > 1% ................................ QUGA/SYAL/CAIN
    • Common snowberry > 50% or Indian plum > 25% ............... QUGA-(FRLA)/SYAL
    • Tall Oregongrape, long-stolon sedge, or blue wildrye present ... QUGA/SYAL/CAIN

  • Common snowberry < 10%
    • Scot’s broom > 25% ........................................................................ Non-native
    • Tall Oregongrape > 25% ...................................................... QUGA/SYAL/CAIN
    • Long-stolon sedge, Roemer’s fescue, red fescue, or blue wildrye >10%
      and common camas or western buttercup present .............. QUGA/CAIN-(CAQU)
    • Non-native grasses dominate understory ............................................ Non-native


  • Not as above .............. try with half the values in the key, review association descriptions


View association table (species list for each association, in MS Excel format) for Oak Woodlands

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