01 October 2022.
Santa Rosa County, Florida, United States
Locality: This species is growing along the Escambia River and accessed by boat.
Coordinates: 30.6293, -87.2583
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Elevation: 1m.
Habitat: Wild Habitat
Environment description: The plants were growing on stumps in full sun on the edge of a semi-alluvial area of the river.
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 surface soil profile of this area is primarily Chewacla-Wahee-Riverview Association. The Chewacla Series soils are dark yellowish brown silty clay loam soils, that are strongly acidic and somewhat poorly drained. They are soils of flood plains and streams subject to frequent flooding. The Wahee Series soils are dark gray clayey and loamy marine or fluviomarine sediments that are strongly acidic and somewhat poorly drained. The Riverview series consists of very deep, well drained, moderately permeable soils that formed in loamy alluvium on flood plains. Slopes range from 0 to 5 percent.
Source: NRCS Web Soil Survey (https://websoilsurvey.sc.egov.usda.gov/App/WebSoilSurvey.aspx)
Associated species: Cornus foemina, Baccharis halimifolia, Viburnum scabrellum, Taxodium distichum, Nyssa biflora, Nyssa aquatica, Rhododendron austrinum, Vaccinium arboreum, Quercus hemisphaerica, Quercus laurifolia, Quercus michauxii, Ulmus americana, Carya aquatica, Planera aquatica, Persea borbonia, Bidens sp., Symphyotrichum sp., Bignonia capreolata, Rubus sp., Wisteria frutescens, Toxicodendron radicans, Catalpa bignonioides, Salix nigra, Crataegus aestivalis, Crataegus vernalis, Ilex opaca, Diospyros virginiana, Cartrema americana
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