Transcription of Dune Grassland - Maine
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Location MapMaine Natural Areas ProgramDune GrasslandDune GrasslandState Rank S2 Community DescriptionThese sand dunes are strongly dominated by beach grass, with patches of beach-pea, red raspberry, bristly gooseberry, or poison ivy. In depressions or blowouts, grass cover is replaced by a mat of beach heather, golden heather, little bluestem, and pinweed, punctuated by tufts of reindeer lichens. Beach grass has stout rhizomes that allow it to colonize new places in its shifting substrate. Downeast of Acadia National Park, beach grass may be replaced by the ecologically and morphologically similar Virginia wild and Site CharacteristicsSites occur on coastal sand dunes between the high tide line and back dune marshes abutting uplands; this type is best expressed along the southwest cover of beach g
Location Map Maine Natural Areas Program Dune Grassland Dune Grassland State Rank S2 Community Description These sand dunes are strongly dominated by beach grass, with
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