General Information
Reference Number: | 23 |
State: | Pennsylvania |
County: | Huntingdon |
Municipality: | Barree |
USGS Quad: | Pine Grove |
Watershed: | Shaver’s Creek |
Hydrogeomorphic Class: | Slope |
Disturbance Class: | Pristine |
Dominant Vegetation Class: | PSS/*PFO |
Wetland Area: | 0.4 ha (1.0 ac) |
Year(s) Sampled: | 1994 |
Vegetation
Herbaceous | |
Percent Cover: | 46.9% (range 10-95%) |
Dominant Species | |
Common Name | Scientific Name |
Drooping sedge | Carex prasina |
Sedge | Carex sp. |
Skink cabbage | Symplocarpus foetidus |
Trout lily | Erythronium americanum |
Thimble weed | Anemone quinquefolia |
Woody | |
Percent cover: | 73.7% (range 60-85%) |
Dominant Species | |
American hornbeam | Carpinus caroliniana |
Hawthorn | Crataegus sp. |
Swamp white oak | Quercus bicolor |
White pine | Pinus strobus |
Weighted Indicator Status (dominant species) | |
Herbaceous: | 1.81 |
Woody: | 3.00 |
Weighted Indicator Status (all species) | |
Herbaceous: | 1.68 |
Woody: | 2.78 |
Species Richness | |
Total: | 67 |
Herbaceous: | 54 |
Woody: | 13 |
Soils
Matrix Chroma (mean): | 2.3 |
Organic Matter (mean %): | 6.15 |
Bulk Density (g/cm2): | 0.85 |
Soil Series: | Atkins silt loam |
Texture (mean %) | |
Sand: | 21.8 |
Silt: | 46.2 |
Clay: | 32.1 |
Sedimentation Rate | |
Mineral loading (g/cm2): | 0.31 |
Equivalent depth (cm): | 0.30 |
Organic loading (g/cm2): | 0.57 |
Hydrology
Water Level | |
Median (cm): | -42.0 |
Range (cm): | -80.0-(-25.0) |
Water Quality | |
pH (mean): | 6.7 |
Conductivity (mean): | 370.0 |