Wetland. Picea mariana – Kalmia angustifolia – Ilex mucronata - Sphagnum spp. – Cladina spp. – Pleurozium schreberi : black spruce – sheep laurel – mountain holly - peat mosses – reindeer lichens – red-stemmed...: Fo12-45/339E-PDF

"CNVC00339 is a boreal, wetland, coniferous, krummholtz Association that occurs on the Cape Breton plateau of Nova Scotia and throughout the southern parts of insular Newfoundland. It is dominated by black spruce (Picea mariana) with sporadic balsam fir (Abies balsamea), together forming a dense shrub stratum. Mountain holly (Ilex mucronata) and wild raisin (Viburnum nudum) are also common in this layer"--Page 1.

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Department/Agency Canadian National Vegetation Classification.
Canada. Natural Resources Canada, issuing body
Title Wetland. Picea mariana – Kalmia angustifolia – Ilex mucronata - Sphagnum spp. – Cladina spp. – Pleurozium schreberi : black spruce – sheep laurel – mountain holly - peat mosses – reindeer lichens – red-stemmed feathermoss - épinette noire – kalmia à feuilles étroites – némopanthe mucroné - sphaignes – cladonies – pleurozie / B. Meades, K. Chapman, K. Baldwin and S. Basquill.
Variant title Picea mariana – Kalmia angustifolia – Ilex mucronata / Sphagnum spp. – Cladina spp. – Pleurozium schreberi CNVC00339
Series title Canadian national vegetation classification (CNVC) = Classification nationale de la végétation du Canada (CNVC) ; CNVC00339
Publication type Series - View Master Record
Language [English]
Format Electronic
Electronic document
Note(s) Includes bibliographical references (page 9).
Publishing information Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario : Canadian National Vegetation Classification, January 2017.
©2017
Author / Contributor Meades, B., author.
Description 1 online resource (10 pages) : photographs, maps.
Catalogue number
  • Fo12-45/339E-PDF
Subject terms Vegetation classification -- Newfoundland and Labrador.
Vegetation classification -- Nova Scotia.
Wetland plants -- Ecology -- Newfoundland and Labrador.
Wetland plants -- Ecology -- Nova Scotia.
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