10 October 2022.
Santa Rosa County, Florida, United States
Locality: Plants growing in woodlands via an unnamed dirt road accessed from Old Ferry Road.
Coordinates: 30.9188, -87.2599
(Map it)
Elevation: 43m.
Habitat: Wild Habitat
Environment description: Plants are growing in an upland habitat on the edge of south-facing woodland in part-shade.
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/sgmc-unit.php?unit=FLPSHal%3B0)
The primary soil type in the collection area is classified as Orangeburg sandy loam soil (2 to 5 percent slopes). The Orangeburg Series consists of very deep, well drained, moderately permeable soils on uplands of the Southern Coastal Plain. They formed in loamy and clayey marine sediments. The reaction of all this soil ranges from very strongly acid to strongly acid.
Source: NRCS Web Soil Survey (https://websoilsurvey.sc.egov.usda.gov/App/WebSoilSurvey.aspx)
Associated species: Pinus palustris, Vaccinium arboreum, Ilex vomitoria, Liquidambar styraciflua, Quercus hemisphaerica, Baccharis halimifolia, Hamamelis virginiana
Comment: The collectors described this collection as Viburnum ashei. There are conflicting reports on the validity and/or range of this species. Without detailed information on the morphology of the plants from which seed was collected, it is uncertain that this was the species collected; furthermore, the lead collector, Ron Miller, is using the V. ashei, generally, as a catch all for the V. scabrellum/ashei complex. I recommend using the more commonly accepted taxon, Viburnum scabrellum. (comments by Rick Lewandowski)
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