General Information
| Reference Number: |
30 |
| State: |
Pennsylvania |
| County: |
Centre |
| Municipality: |
Benner |
| USGS Quad: |
Bellefonte |
| Watershed: |
Spring Creek |
| Hydrogeomorphic Class: |
Mainstemfloodplain |
| Disturbance Class: |
Moderate |
| Dominant Vegetation Class: |
*PSS/PFO |
| Wetland Area: |
0.4 ha (0.9 ac) |
| Year(s) Sampled: |
1994 |
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Vegetation
| Herbaceous |
| Percent Cover: |
79.6% (range 0-95%) |
| Dominant Species |
| Common Name |
Scientific Name |
| Skunk cabbage |
Symplocarpus foetidus |
| Stinging nettle |
Urtica dioica |
| Creeping jennie |
Lysimachia nummularia |
| Spotted touch me not |
Impatiens capensis |
| Japanese honeysuckle |
Lonicera japonica |
| Woody |
| Percent cover: |
50.5% (range 40-100%) |
| Dominant Species |
| Morrow’s honeysuckle |
Lonicera morrowii |
| Silky dogwood |
Cornus amomum |
| Black walnut |
Juglans nigra |
| Wild black currant |
Ribes americanum |
| Multiflora rose |
Rosa multiflora |
| Weighted Indicator Status (dominant species) |
| Herbaceous: |
2.67 |
| Woody: |
3.67 |
| Weighted Indicator Status (all species) |
| Herbaceous: |
2.78 |
| Woody: |
3.22 |
| Species Richness |
| Total: |
79 |
| Herbaceous: |
67 |
| Woody: |
12 |
Soils
| Matrix Chroma (mean): |
1.5 |
| Organic Matter (mean %): |
6.97 |
| Bulk Density (g/cm2): |
0.83 |
| Soil Series: |
Opequon-Hagerstown complex |
| Texture (mean %) |
| Sand: |
26.0 |
| Silt: |
53.4 |
| Clay: |
20.6 |
| Sedimentation Rate |
| Mineral loading (g/cm2): |
Site #1: 0.63: Site #2: 0.58 |
| Equivalent depth (cm): |
Site #1: 0.50: Site #2: 0.50 |
| Organic loading (g/cm2): |
Site #1: 0.43: Site #2: 0.48 |
Hydrology
| Water Level |
| Median (cm): |
-32.5 |
| Range (cm): |
-55.0-0.0 |
| Water Quality |
| pH (mean): |
7.0 |
| Conductivity (mean): |
855.0 |