Comunidades de plantas nativas de Florida

Spring Run Stream

  • Rock Springs Run, a spring-run stream in Orange County. Photo by Shirley Denton, Suncoast Chapter

  • Spring Run Stream - Chassahowitzka (upper Potter Creek). Photo by Shirley Denton, Suncoast Chapter

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Información

Variantes de la comunidad:

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Descripción:

Spring-run streams are perennial watercourses fed by deep aquifer headwaters. They are characterized by clear water and a circumneutral pH.


Vegetation

Characteristic species include Florida willow ( Salix caroliniana ), spring-run spiderlily ( Hymenocallis rotata ), and yellow waterlily ( Nymphaea mexicana ).


Example Locations

  • Waccasassa River
  • St. Marks River
  • Boiling Creek (Eglin Air Force Base)
  • Titi Creek (Eglin Air Force Base)
  • Holmes Creek
  • Shoal River

Several of these streams also support rare plant species.

Referencias:

Clewell, A. F. (1986). Natural setting and vegetation of the Florida Panhandle: An account of the environments and plant communities of northern Florida west of the Suwannee River (Report No. COESAM/PDEI-86/001). U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Mobile District.


Duever, L. (1984, September). Florida’s natural communities: Floodplains. The Palmetto, 4(3), 8–10. http://fnps.org/assets/pdf/palmetto/duever_linda_conway_natural_communities_of_floridas_floodplains_vol_4_no_3_fall_1984.pdf


Florida Natural Areas Inventory. (2010). Guide to the natural communities of Florida: 2010 edition. Florida Natural Areas Inventory. http://fnai.org/naturalcommguide.cfm


Myers, R. L., & Ewel, J. J. (Eds.). (1990). Ecosystems of Florida. University of Central Florida Press.


Simons, R. W. (1990). Terrestrial and freshwater habitats. In S. H. Wolfe (Ed.), An ecological characterization of the Florida Springs Coast: Pithlachascotee to Waccasassa Rivers (Biological Report 90[21], pp. 99–157). U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.


Whitney, E. N., Means, D. B., & Rudloe, A. (2004). Priceless Florida: Natural ecosystems and native species. Pineapple Press.

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