IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Lotuspoint
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2003ID009007
  • User Pedon ID: S2003ID009007
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S2003ID009007
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 04N0225
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 16442
  • Print Date: 11/23/2024

    • LOCATION

  • Location In Web Soil Survey
  • AOI is roughly a square mile and pedon is marked in the center.
  • Location in SoilWeb
  • Location in Google Maps
  • Std. Latitude: 47.2919426
  • Std. Longitude: -116.6283340
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 46N
  • Range: 2W
  • Section: 32
  • PLSS Details: About 1120m North and 65m East of the Southwest corner
  • Location Description: West Benewah Soil Survey Area, South west of St. Marie's.
  • Map Unit: 735—Lotuspoint stony ashy silt loam, 35 to 65 percent slopes, stony
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Idaho
  • County: ID009—Benewah
  • MLRA: 43A—Northern Rocky Mountains
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: ID607—Benewah County Area, IdahoID620—Benewah County Area, Idaho, Western Part
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 47116-C6—Benewah Lake, Idaho

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Scott Bare
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, superactive, mesic Humic Haploxerepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 7
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Lotuspoint
  • PSC - 30 to 84 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 3/18/2013
  • Classifier - Brian Gardner
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Lotuspoint
  • Classificaton Date - 8/12/2003
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: volcanic ash and loess over residuum weathered from metasedimentary rock
  • Landscape: mountains
  • Landform: mountain slope
  • Geomorphic Component Mountains: mountainflank, upper third
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Complexity: complex
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

  • Other Vegetative Class: CN260 - Douglas-fir/ninebark—Forest Habitat Types of Northern Idaho (GTR-INT-236)

    • SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/1/2004 (actual site observation date)
  • Plant Association Name: PSME/PHMA
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - conifers
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    ACMI2

    CARU

    FEID

    HODI

    PHLE4

    PIPO

    PSME

    PSSP6

    ROSA5

    SPBE2

    SYAL

    Achillea millefolium

    Calamagrostis rubescens

    Festuca idahoensis

    Holodiscus discolor

    Philadelphus lewisii

    Pinus ponderosa

    Pseudotsuga menziesii

    Pseudoroegneria spicata

    Rosa

    Spiraea betulifolia

    Symphoricarpos albus

    common yarrow

    pinegrass

    Idaho fescue

    oceanspray

    Lewis' mock orange

    ponderosa pine

    Douglas-fir

    bluebunch wheatgrass

    rose

    white spirea

    common snowberry

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    Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, lithic

    indurated

    84 -

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    Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    andic soil properties

    cambic horizon

    lithic contact

    5—15

    5—25

    25—46

    84—

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    Setting and Climate
    Slope Slope Length USLE Upslope Length Elev. Corr. Elev Aspect MAP REAP FFD MAAT MSAT MWAT MAST MSST MWST MFFP PE Index Climate Station ID Climate Station Name Climate Station Type
    % m degrees mm mm C mm

    58

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    1067

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    225

    864

    660

    120

    8.9

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    10

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    Oi—0 to 2 centimeters (0.0 to 0.8 inches); slightly decomposed plant material; fragments.
    Oe—2 to 4 centimeters (0.8 to 1.6 inches); moderately decomposed plant material; fragments.
    A—4 to 15 centimeters (1.6 to 5.9 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; gravelly ashy silt loam; 7 percent clay; weak very fine granular, and weak fine granular structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, slightly plastic; moderate permeability; 8.0 very fine roots throughout and 3.0 medium roots throughout and 8.0 fine roots throughout; 8.0 very fine tubular and 8.0 fine tubular pores; 5 percent by volume nonflat 250-?-600 millimeter unspecified fragments and 5 percent by volume nonflat 75-?-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume nonflat 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 04N00984; dry when described;
    AB—15 to 25 centimeters (5.9 to 9.8 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) and yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist; very stony silt loam; 8 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak very fine subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, slightly plastic; moderate permeability; 8.0 very fine roots throughout and 3.0 medium roots throughout and 8.0 fine roots throughout; 8.0 very fine tubular and 0.8 medium tubular and 8.0 fine tubular pores; 5 percent by volume nonflat 250-?-600 millimeter unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume nonflat 75-?-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 25 percent by volume nonflat 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 04N00985; dry when described;
    2Bw—25 to 46 centimeters (9.8 to 18.1 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/4), brown (10YR 5/3) and dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist; extremely cobbly silt loam; 11 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky, and weak fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderate permeability; 3.0 very fine roots throughout and 3.0 medium roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout and 0.8 coarse roots throughout; 8.0 very fine tubular and 3.0 medium tubular and 8.0 fine tubular and 0.8 coarse tubular pores; 10 percent by volume nonflat 250-?-600 millimeter unspecified fragments and 15 percent by volume nonflat 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments and 45 percent by volume nonflat 75-?-250 millimeter unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 04N00986; dry when described;
    2BC—46 to 84 centimeters (18.1 to 33.1 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/3), brown (10YR 5/3) and dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist; extremely stony silt loam; 12 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderate permeability; 3.0 very fine roots throughout and 0.8 very coarse roots throughout and 0.8 medium roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout and 0.8 coarse roots throughout; 8.0 very fine irregular and 8.0 very fine tubular and 3.0 medium tubular and 3.0 medium irregular and 8.0 fine tubular and 8.0 fine irregular and 0.8 coarse irregular and 0.8 coarse tubular pores; 10 percent by volume nonflat 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments and 25 percent by volume nonflat 75-?-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 50 percent by volume nonflat 250-?-600 millimeter unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, hellige-truog; clear irregular boundary. Lab sample # 04N00986; dry when described;
    2R—84 centimeters (33.1 inches); bedrock; fragments.