06 October 2022.
George County, Mississippi, United States
Locality: Wetlands on the north side of Wilkerson Ferry Landing Road, in the Wilkerson Ferry Campsite, next to the Pascagoula River.
Coordinates: 30.8157, -88.7485
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Elevation: 10m.
Habitat: Wild Habitat
Environment description: Plants growing in a black muddy area along a scoured channel parallel to the river in the Wilkerson Ferry Campsite along the Pascagoula River. Soils: The underlying geology of this area is classified as Pascagoula and Hattiesburg Formation of Miocene origin. This formation consists of green and bluish-green clay, sandy clay, and sand; gray siltstone and sand; locally fossiliferous. (Source: USGS Mississippi Geologic Map Data). The primary soil types in this collection area are Susquehanna-Benndale Complex soils (12 to 17 percent slopes). The Susquehanna Series consists of deep, somewhat poorly drained, soils that formed in marine or stream deposits of silty clay and clay. Permeability is very slow. These nearly level to steep soils are on erosional uplands of the Southern Coastal Plain. Slopes range from 1 to 17 percent. They are very strongly acid. The Benndale Series consists of very deep, well drained, moderately permeable soils on nearly level to strongly sloping marine terraces and high stream terraces of the Southern Coastal Plain and the Eastern Gulf Coast Flatwoods Major Land Resource Areas. They formed in thick beds of loamy fluviomarine or fluvial sediments. Slopes range from 0 to 12 percent. They are strongly acid. (Source: NRCS Web Soil Survey).
Associated species: Cyrilla racemiflora; Taxodium distichum; Hamamelis virginiana.
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