1) Weeksville-Pasquotank: Very poorly and poorly drained 

 mineral soils with black to gray very fine sandy loam 

 or silt loam surface layers (Typic Humaquepts and Typic 

 Haplaquepts) 



2) Hyde-Bayboro: Very poorly drained mineral soils with 

 thick black loam surface layers (Typic Umbraquults 

 and Umbric Paleaquults) 



3) Ponzer-Belhaven-Wasda: Very poorly drained organic 

 soils with moderately thick to thin organic surface 

 layers (Terric Medisaprists and Histic Humaquepts) 



4) Capers: Very poorly drained mineral soils with dark 

 gray silty clay and loamy surface layers (Typic 

 Sulfaquents) Descriptions from SCS (1973) . 



VEGETATION 



The vegetation of the natural area is a diverse assemblage 

 of hardwood-dominated stands , baldcypress stands , pond pine 

 pocosin, low shrub pocosin, shrub marsh, and brackish marsh. 

 In general these vegetation associations occur as wide bands 

 or zones in a transect running north to south. They are closely 

 correlated with the four soil associations described in the pre- 

 ceding section. These vegetation-soil associations do not ex- 

 hibit discrete boundaries, but rather change gradually along 

 moisture and peat depth gradients. 



For the sake of clarity, it is best to describe these 

 vegetation associations individually. In the following dis- 

 cussion they are arranged in order as they are encountered 

 along a north-south transect beginning near Hydeland and 

 ending at Pamlico Sound: 



1) Hydeland-Gull Rock Sweetgum-Hardwoods Stand 



2) Gull Rock Pond Pine Pocosin (this includes several 

 small, isolated baldcypress stands) 



3) Gull Rock Low Pocosin 



4) Gull Rock brackish marshes (includes shrub marsh 

 zone) 



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