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SALIX CHLOROLEPIS [1 record]

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Record 1 2007-03-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • Botany
CONT

Mineral nutrition of serpentine species ... The species commonly found on serpentine soils in Eastern United States are adapted to the low calcium-high magnesium environment by selectively accumulating calcium.

OBS

Serpentine rock has a mottled, greenish-gray color with a waxy feel to it. These rocks form when the upper mantle of the earth's crust containing wet oceanic sediments is submerged under a land mass, which results in the chemical addition of water to heavy mantle rock.

PHR

Serpentine flora, grassland, plant, species, vegetation.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Botanique
DEF

[Se dit d’un végétal, qui est] adapté à la vie sur des substrats serpentineux.

CONT

La flore y est également appauvrie et comprend des espèces endémiques locales serpentinicoles, comme le Minuartia marcescens, le Salix chlorolepis et le Solidago simplex ssp. simplex var. chlorolepis. La population observée à Terre-Neuve occupait les pentes d’une crête serpentineuse sèche orientées au sud.

PHR

Écotype, espèce, flore, lande, plante, végétation serpentinicole.

Key term(s)
  • serpenticole

Spanish

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