Helodium blandowii (F. Weber & D. Mohr) Warnst.
Annotated by Rick Dewey.

Washington: Yakima County: Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest, Naches Ranger District, County Creek, 1900-837 road. Drive to ridgetop end of the 1900-837 road; park vehicle anywhere within the final 100m of road; walk steeply downslope to east approx. 300m to reach SE edge of meadow. Elev. 4377 ft.
UTM Zone 10, 625252E, 5213395N; NE 1/4, T18N R11E WM, Sec. 12.
Datum: NAD 83.
Habitat: damp-wet soil commonly encountered in this relatively flat, valley-bottom wetland; one smallish soppy-wet area along upper western edge of wetland. Sphagnum is the dominant moss, but much bare soil occus as well; much of the moss cover within the wetland was not in contact with a direct or capillary water source and straw-colored or largely bleached color. The thickness of apparent organic soil within this wetland suggests a long history of persistent wetness, but the source is not obvious. The forested/wetland interface around the perimeter presents little evidence of groundwater discharge. The large number of small seasonal channels entering from adjacent uplands, the abundance of Scirpus microcarpus, and the low count of fen indicator taxa, suggest that seasonal input of surface water from adjacent uplands is this wetland's primary water source. ¶Associated Species: lichen/moss layer: SPHAG2, PHOF6, CACU18, METR70, HEBL2; herb layer: ELQU2, ERGR8, CAUT, CAJO, CACA11, CAAQ, PLDI3, PEGR2, EQAR, TRGL5, SAOR2, EPILO, HYAN2, POOC2, MIPR; shrub layer: VAUL, SALIX.¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶ Sphagnum: substrate.¶Location Notes: multiple patches in the N 1/2 of the meadow; patch sizes ranging from <1 sq m to a swath >10m long. HEBL2 patches all stressed; all patches no longer connected to soil water by capillarity at the time of visit. Substrate: terricolous.

Rick Dewey RD070815-1143, Jul 8, 2015
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