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COMMlTiUrY DIVERSITY SUMMARY 

 PATSY POND 



Vascular Aquatic System 

 Tall, emergent stolonlferous aedges OR 

 Tai.1, emergent rhizomatoua sedges 



ELEOCHARIS EQUISETOIDES/NIJPHAR LUTEUM 

 Eleocharls equisetoides/Nuphar luteum 



OR 



Spikerush or beakrush bed 

 Cyperaceae/Hyicphaeales 



RHYNCHOSPORA INUNDATA/NTJPHAR LUTEUM 

 Rhynchospora Inundata/Nuphar luteum 



SOILS: A. HlBtosol; AA. Saprlst. B. Medlaaprist; BB. Limnic medlsaprist. 



C. Coprogenous, euic, thermic limnic medlsaprist; CC. Muck. 



Topsoil: Muck, pH 5.5. 



Subsoil: Sand, pH undetermined. 

 HYDROLOGY: A. Emergent wetland; AA. Permanently flooded. B. Freeh; BB. Acid. 



C. Organic bottom; CC. Carbonaceous. 

 HYDROGRAPHY: A. Broad Creek and Sanders Creek which drain into Bogue Sound, Palustrine; 



AA. Natural impoundment ponds. B. Patsy Pond and associated ponds, Aqueous 



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



CANOPY: None present. 

 SUBCANOPY: None present. 

 SHRUBS: None present. 



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HERB LAYER DOMINANTS: Tall, emergent stolonlferous sedges or tall, emergent 



rhizomatoua sedges. 

 HERB ANALYSIS: See Table ^. 



ECOLOGICAL CHARACTERIZATION; 



Vegetationally — Cyperaceous-Nymphaealean Vascular Aquatic System with tall, 

 emergent stolonlferous sedges or call, emergent rhizomatous sedges. Climatically— 

 Warm, temperate loasothermal 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. Pedolosicallv — Muck, coprogenous, euic, 

 thermic limnic medlsaprist soil. Hydrologically— An emergent wetland with a bottom 

 of carbonaceous organic material which is permanently flooded by fresh, acidic water. 

 Hydro graphically — A series of natural impoundment ponds of the palustrine system 

 with open, variously exposed, nearly level slopes with 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 hydrosere in the Sea Island 

 Section of the Atlantic Coastal Plain. 



