General Information
| Reference Number: |
31 |
| State: |
Pennsylvania |
| County: |
Centre |
| Municipality: |
Harris |
| USGS Quad: |
State College |
| Watershed: |
Spring Creek |
| Hydrogeomorphic Class: |
Headwater floodplain |
| Disturbance Class: |
Severe |
| Dominant Vegetation Class: |
*PEM/PSS |
| Wetland Area: |
0.3 ha (0.6 ac) |
| Year(s) Sampled: |
1994 |
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Vegetation
| Herbaceous |
| Percent Cover: |
81.9% (range 45-100%) |
| Dominant Species |
| Common Name |
Scientific Name |
| Grass |
— |
| Kentucky bluegrass |
Poa pratensis |
| Creeping thistle |
Cirsium arvense |
| Spotted touch me not |
Impatiens capensis |
| Garlic mustard |
Alliaria petiolata |
| Woody |
| Percent cover: |
27.3% (range 0-95%) |
| Dominant Species |
| European privet |
Ligustrum vulgare |
| Blackberry/Dewberry |
Rubus sp. |
| Gray dogwood |
Cornus racemosa |
| American elder |
Sambucus canadensis |
| Multiflora rose |
Rosa multiflora |
| Weighted Indicator Status (dominant species) |
| Herbaceous: |
3.41 |
| Woody: |
3.50 |
| Weighted Indicator Status (all species) |
| Herbaceous: |
3.11 |
| Woody: |
3.43 |
| Species Richness |
| Total: |
66 |
| Herbaceous: |
60 |
| Woody: |
6 |
Soils
| Matrix Chroma (mean): |
3.0 |
| Organic Matter (mean %): |
6.11 |
| Bulk Density (g/cm2): |
0.82 |
| Soil Series: |
Dunning silty clay loam |
| Texture (mean %) |
| Sand: |
6.0 |
| Silt: |
65.7 |
| Clay: |
28.3 |
| Sedimentation Rate |
| Mineral loading (g/cm2): |
4.22 |
| Equivalent depth (cm): |
3.40 |
| Organic loading (g/cm2): |
0.53 |
Hydrology
| Water Level |
| Median (cm): |
-53.0 |
| Range (cm): |
-69.0-(-18.0) |
| Water Quality |
| pH (mean): |
7.2 |
| Conductivity (mean): |
503.5 |