laurifolia ) • 

 Physical features: 





General description — Piver Bays Bog is a shallow, elliptical depres- 

 sion with a slight B-W orientation, located within the dense poco- 

 sin community of a NW-SE trending Carolina bay, , a 



Topography — The bog itself is some 0.5m lower in elevation that the — 

 surrounding lajidscape, normally containing standing v/ater for 

 almost the entire year; the surrounding bay area is extremely flat, 

 with relief totalling much less than 1m, 



Geology — The surficial sediments are marine deposited sands and clays 

 of the Pamlico Terrace of Pleistocene age, most likely overlying the 

 Peedee Formation of Late Cretaceous age. 



Rare plants and animals: > . 



Dionaea muscipula . Venus' flytrap. Threatened endemic; exploited. 



Mar shall i a .r;randi flora . Great marshallia, 3ndan'3ered peripheral, 



Reported from the Piver Bays Bog by Kologiski and Connette in their 

 1973 N.C. Natural Areas Survey, this record could not be substan- 

 tiated in the field. However, because the species blooms in late 

 spring, and the Piver bog was visited in late summer, it is possible 

 that this species could occur within the bog area and pass unnoticed. 

 This record, if substantiated, represents a significant disjunction, 

 as the species is known only from a few bogs in Henderson and 

 Granville Counties, N.C, within the Caxolinas, ., 



Sarracenia rubra . Sweet pitcher plajit. Threatened throughout; ex- 

 ploited. This location represents one of the largest, most concen- 

 trated populations of sweet pitcher plant known in the sirea. 



Publications and scientific references: - -v. 



Blankenship, R.R, 1965. Reconnaissance of the ground-water resources 

 of the Southport-Elisabethtovm area. North Carolina. N.C. Dept, V.'ater Hog,, 

 Div, Ground V/ater, Ground-Water Bui, No. 6. k7 pp. 



Daniels, R.B., et_. al. 1978. Age of soil landscapes in the cor.stal 

 plain area of North Carolina. Soil Sci. Soc. Am. J. k2: 93-105. 



Radford, A.E., ejt. al. 196^, Manual of the Vascular Flora of the 

 Carolinas. UNC Press. Chapel Hill, N.C. II85 pp. 



Site ecological significance: 



The ecologically significant features of the site are summarized: 



1) The occurrence of a relatively undisturbed, inner bay bog connunity, 

 an increasingly rare phenomenon on the southeastern coastal plain 

 of the state where extensive ditching and draining activities have 

 occurred. 



2) Possible locality for ilarshallia grandi flora , an endangered peripheral 

 species known only from the mountains of the Carolinas. 



3) The occurrence of a large, healthy, reproducing population of 

 Sarracenia rubra, a species that is threatened throughout its range. 



