15 December 2022.
Santa Rosa County, Florida, United States
Locality: Plants growing on a sandy road at a location known locally as “Old Land Place” on the western edge of Eglin AFB. This site was accessed by boat from the Yellow River which forks; the site was on the eastern fork which is sometimes known as Weaver River. As a landmark this site has a river monitoring gauge located on the bank. The site can also be accessed by vehicle from Florida State Hwy 87; however, four-wheel drive is strongly suggested due to the soft sand conditions of the seldom used road. Occasional.
Coordinates: 30.5529, -86.9376
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Elevation: 2m.
Habitat: Wild Habitat
Environment description: Plants growing in part-shade to shade on the embankment of the sandy road just above a wetland draining into the river in a mixed deciduous and evergreen bottomland forest with many broad-leaved evergreen understory elements. Plants are in moist well-drained conditions.
Soils: The underlying geology of this area is classified as Alluvium, of Pleistocene/Holocene origin and consists of undifferentiated Quaternary sediments of varying thickness including siliciclastics, organics and freshwater carbonates. The siliciclastics are light gray, tan, brown to black, unconsolidated to poorly consolidated, clean to clayey, silty, unfossiliferous, variably organic-bearing sands to blue green to olive green, poorly to moderately consolidated, sandy, silty clays. Organics occur as plant debris, roots, disseminated organic matrix and beds of peat. Freshwater carbonates, often referred to as marls in the literature, are scattered.
Source: USGS Florida Geologic Map Data (https://mrdata.usgs.gov/geology/state/state.php?state=fl)
The primary soil types in the collection area are classified as Bibb-Kinston Association soils. The Bibb Series soils consists of very deep, poorly drained, moderately permeable soils on flood plains of streams in the Southern Coastal Plain (133A) Major Land Resource Area. They formed in stratified loamy and sandy alluvium that are commonly and frequently flooded and water runs off the surface very slowly. Slopes range from 0 to 2 percent. Kinston Series soils are poorly drained, alluvial, fine-loamy, siliceous, and acid soils of flood plains. They are peaty to loamy friable, slightly sticky and slightly plastic in the upper 0 to 7.5 cm of the strata with less sand and more silt-loam in progressively deer strata.
Source: NRCS Web Soil Survey (https://websoilsurvey.sc.egov.usda.gov/App/WebSoilSurvey.aspx)
Number of plants sampled: 3
Associated species: Chamaecyparis thyoides, Cartrema americana, Vaccinium elliottii, Smilax sp., Arundinaria gigantea, Ilex vomitoria, Clethra alnifolia, Ilex coriacea, Nyssa biflora, Morella cerifera, Cliftonia monophylla, Osmunda cinnamomea, Cyrilla racemiflora, Wisteria frutescens, Vitis sp.
Comment: This species is a multi-stemmed, deciduous shrub, forming an upright, slightly spreading layered habit in maturity. Maturity shrubs range from 3-5 meters tall x 2-3 meters wide. Plants are completely defoliated. Fruits are brown upright dehiscent capsule borne terminally in clusters. Capsules are approximately 15-20 mm long × 4-6 mm wide, usually densely stipitate-glandular- and/or eglandular-hairy.
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