24 October 2024.
Rabun County, Georgia, United States
Locality: Chattahoochee National Forest: Warwoman Wildlife Management Area: north side of Overflow Creek Road just west of the bridge over the Chattooga River.
Coordinates: 34.9496, -83.2065
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Elevation: 498m.
Georeference protocol: Lat/lon determined by GPS
Habitat: Wild Habitat
Environment description: Mixed evergreen and deciduous moist mesic forest in part shade. The underlying geology of this area is characterized as Metagraywacke/Mica Schist Formation of the Precambrian-Paleozoic period. (Source: USGS Georgia Geologic Map Data). The soils of this are characterized as Tusquitee Series Loam, 10 to 25 percent slopes. The Tusquitee Series consists of very deep, well drained soils on gently sloping to very steep benches, foot slopes, toe slopes, and fans in coves in the Southern Blue Ridge mountains, MLRA 130B. These soils formed in colluvium derived from materials weathered from igneous and high-grade metamorphic crystalline rocks such as granite, mica gneiss, hornblende gneiss, and schist. Slope ranges from 2 to 95 percent. Solum thickness ranges from 1 to 3+ meters. Reaction is very strongly acid to slightly acid, in the A horizon. The Bw and lower horizons are very strongly acid to moderately acid. In the upper 1 meter, content of rock fragments, dominantly of gravel to stone size, ranges up to 35 percent. Below 1 meter, rock fragment content may range up to 60 percent. Content of mica flakes ranges from few to common. (Source: California Soil Resource Lab/NRCS Official Soil Series Descriptions).
Associated species: Vaccinium sp.; Rubus sp.; Quercus montana; Magnolia fraseri; Rudbeckia laciniata; Cornus florida; Oxydendrum arboreum; Eupatorium sp.; Alnus serrulata; Rhododendron maximum; Clethra acuminata; Euonymus americanus; Tsuga canadensis; Pinus strobus; Rhododendron minus var. minus; Xanthorhiza simplicissima; Leucothoe fontanesiana; Aralia racemosa; Impatiens pallida; Solidago sp.
Comment: Multi-stemmed, deciduous shrubs to 1 to 1.6 meters tall with bright green leaves above and pure white beneath. Locally frequent occurrence.