95 _ 



COMMUNITY DIVERSITY SUMMARY 

 P/^TSY POND 



Vascular Aquatic System Bladderwort mat OR Watermllfoll bed OR 



Nyrapholdes bed OR Spatter-dock bed OR 

 Water-lily bed* 

 Free floating aquatics Scrophulariales 



Submergent rhizomatous aquatics OR Haloragales 



Rooted-floating leaf aquatics OR Gentlanales 



Emergent rhizomatous aquatics OR Nymphaeales 



Rooted-floating leaf aquatics Nyrnphaeales 



UTRICULARIA OLIVACEA MYRIOPHYLLUM LAXUM N YKPHOIDES CORJATA 

 Utricularla olivacea Myrlophyllum laxum Nymphoides cordata 



NUP HAR LUT EUM N YKPHAEA OD ORATA 

 Nuphar luteum Nymphaea odorata 



SOILS: A. Histoaol; AA. Saprist. B. Mediaaprist; BB. Limnic madisaprist. 



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



Topsoil: Not determined. 



Subsoil: Not determined. 

 HYDROLOGY: A. Vascular aquatic, A. Floating-leaved aquatic, A. Emergent wetland; 



AA. Permanently flooded. B. Fresh; BB. Acid. C. Organic bottom; CC. Carbonaceous. 

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



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



BB. Constant slope, BB. Pond zones of varying water depths and substrates. 



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



CANOPY: None present. 

 SUBCANOPY: None present. 

 SHRUBS: None present. 



HERB LAYER DOtQNANTS : Free floating aquatics, submergent rhizomatous aquatics, rooted- 

 floating leaf aquatics, or emergent rhizomatous aquatics. 



HERB ANALYSIS: See Table 9. 



ECOLOGICAL CHARACTERIZATION: 



Vegetationally — Scrophularlalean, Haloragalean, Gentianalean, or N>-mphaealean 

 Vascular Aquatic System with free floating aquatics, submergent rhizomatous aquatics, 

 rooted-floating leaf aquatics, or emergent rhizomatous aquatics. Climatically — Warm, 

 temperate tnesothermal climate: Cool, moist yearly, moderately hot and moderately 

 wet in the suamer (July) , moderately warm and moderately dry in the winter (January) 

 and with a very long Frost Free season. Pedologlcally — Muck, coprogenous, euic, 

 thermic limnic medlsaprist soil. Hydrologlcally — An emergent wetland, vascular aquatic 

 zone, or floating-leaved aquatic zone with a bottom of carbonaceous organic tuaterial 

 which is permanently flooded by fresh, acidic water. Hydro graphically — A series of 

 natural impoundment ponds of the palustrlne system with open, variously exposed, 

 nearly level slopes and pond zones with a smooth surface and with a drainage system 

 coDBisting 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. 



Combinations of these ""Iso occur. 



