30 October 2023.
Sullivan County, Pennsylvania, United States
Locality: Southwest side of Dutch Mountain Road north of Pine Marsh Creek in Pennsylvania State Game Lands Number 66.
Coordinates: 41.4820, -76.2729
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Elevation: 602m.
Georeference protocol: Lat/lon determined by GPS
Habitat: Wild Habitat
Environment description: Moist, well-drained habitat with good organic matter in part shade on a wooded slope next to the road. Slope: 5-10%. Aspect: East. The underlying geology of this area is of Mississippian origin and characterized as the Burgoon Formation. It is comprised of buff, medium-grained, cross bedded sandstone that includes shale and coal. In some places, it contains conglomerate at base as well as occasionally contains plant fossils; equivalent to Pocono Formation of Ridge and Valley province. (Source: USGS Pennsylvania Geologic Map Data). The primary soil type in the collection area is classified as Wellsboro Series. The Wellsboro Series consists of very deep, moderately well- and somewhat poorly-drained soils formed in till derived from red sandstone, siltstone, and shale. Slope ranges from 0 to 50 percent. Saturated hydraulic conductivity is moderately high or high in the mineral surface layer, subsurface layer, and upper part of the subsoil; and low or moderately low in the lower part of the subsoil (fragipan) and the substratum. Solum thickness is greater than 102 cm. Depth to the fragipan ranges from 36 to 76 cm. Depth to bedrock is 152 cm or more. Rock fragments of subangular and rounded sandstone, siltstone or shale range from 5 to 40 percent in the A and B horizons, and from 15 to 50 percent in the Bx and C horizons. Typically, rock fragments average about 5 to 25 percent by volume above the fragipan and 15 to 40 percent by volume in and below the fragipan. Reaction commonly ranges from very strongly acid through moderately acid. (Source: NRCS Web Soil Survey).
Number of plants sampled: 4
Associated species: Tsuga canadensis; Salix eriocephala; Acer rubrum; Acer saccharum; Populus tremuloides; Fagus grandifolia; Betula allegheniensis; Solidago sp.; Vaccinium corymbosum; Crataegus sp.; Amelanchier arborea; Spiraea alba; Cornus alternifolia (as Swida alternifolia); Rosa sp.; Carpinus caroliniana; Cornus sp. (as Swida sp.); Cornus florida; Rubus sp.; Carex sp.; Salix humilis.
Comment: These plants are clumping, multi-stemmed, moderately coarse, deciduous shrubs with a rounded spreading habit. Shrubs range in size from 2.5 to 4 meters tall and 3 to 4 meters wide. Young stems are densely to sparsely hairy. Leaves are simple, alternate, deciduous, and sparsely to densely hairy. The leaves are ovate to obovate, 3-9 cm long x 1.5-3.5 cm wide; they are thin and membranous with entire margins that are conspicuously ciliate. The leaf apex is generally acute to obtuse, sometimes mucronate. At the time of collection leaves were in fall color display and quite attractive; leaf color ranged from yellow to orange, almost salmon in some cases. Capsules were borne in clusters, 1-10, on erect pedicels with stipitate-glandular hairs; capsules ranged from 10-30 mm long x 3-7 mm wide, and were densely stipitate-glandular-hairy. Many capsules retained the long, shriveled pistil terminally, even on capsules turning brown. Plants are infrequent and uncommon. Seeds collected from 4 plants.
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