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COMMUNITY DIVERSITY SUMJIARY 

 PATSY POND 



Marsh Herb System 



Tall, rhlzomaCoua, deciduous herbs 



Mixed herb zone 

 Mixed herbs 



MIXED HERBS 

 Mixed herbs 



SOILS: A. Entiaol; AA. 

 C. Thermic, uncoa 

 Topsoil: 0-40 cm, 

 Subsoil: AG cm +, 

 Topsoil: 0-16 cm, 

 Subsoil: 16 cm +, 



HYDROLOGY: A. Emergent 

 C. Unconsolidated 



HYDROGRAPHY: A. Broad 

 AA, Natural impoun 

 zones; EB. Zone. 



Psamment. B. Quartzipsamment; BB. Aquic quartzipsamment. 

 ted aquic quartzipsamment; CO. Undetermined. 



light gray, fine to medium sand, pH 3.9. 



dark reddish brown, fine to medium sand, pH 3.9 (hardpan) . 



black, peat, pH 4.0. 



light gray, fine to medium sand, pH undetermined. 



wetland; AA. Seasonally flooded. B. Fresh; B3. Acid. 

 sediments, C. Organic bottom; CC. Siliceous, CC. Carbonaceous. 

 Creek & Sanders Creek which drain into Bogue Sound, Palustrine; 

 dment ponds. B. Patsy Pond and associated ponds, Interaqueous 

 C. Smooth; CC. Open, variously exposed, nearly level slopes. 



CANOPY: None present. 

 SUBCANOPY: None present. 

 SHRUBS: None present. 



HERB LAYER DOMINANTS: Tall, rhizomatous, deciduous herbs. 



HERB ANALYSIS: See Table S. 



HERB SPECIES PRESENT, BUT NOT IN ANALYSIS: 



MEDIUM HERBS- Bartonia paniculata Polvgala lutea , TALL HERBS- Agalinis purpurea . 

 Erip.eron vemus , Eriocaulon compressum , PoRonia ophioglossoides , PolvBonum 

 hirsutum, Solldago fistulosa , S_. tenuifolia , VERY TALL HFRBS- Eupatorium 

 caplllifolium var. capillifolium . TALL GRASS ES-Panicum verrucosum . MEDIUM FERN 

 ALLIES- Lycopodiu m carolinianum , SMALL HOSSES- Sphagnum sp. 



ECOLOGICAL CHARACTERIZATION: 



Vegetationally — Mixed Marsh Herb System with tall, rhizomatous, deciduous herbs. 

 Climatically — Warm, teniperate meeothenaal climate: Cool, moist yearly, moderately hot 

 and moderately wet in the summer (July) , moderately warm and moderately dry in the 

 winter (January) and with a very long Frost Free season. Pedologically — Thermic, 

 uncoated aquic quartzipsamment soil or Peat, euic, thermic typic medlfibrist soil. 

 HydroloRJcallv — An emergent wetland with a bottom of siliceous unconsolidated sediments 

 or carbonaceous organic material wnich is seasonally flooded by fresh, acidic water. 

 Hvdro graphically— A series of natural impoundment ponds of the palustrine syatea with 

 open, variously exposed, nearly level slopes wich a smooth surface and with a drainage 

 system consisting of Broad Creek and Sanders Creek which flow into Bogue Sound. 

 Temporally and spatially — Pioneer stage of a hydropsammosere or a hydrohistosere 

 in the Sea Island Section of the Atlantic Coastal Plain. 



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