IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Butternut
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2003WI099004
  • User Pedon ID: S2003WI099004
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S2003WI099004
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 03N0900
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 16257
  • Print Date: 11/12/2024

    • 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: 45.9616928
  • Std. Longitude: -90.5991669
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 40N
  • Range: 2W
  • Section: 10
  • PLSS Details: 1400 feet south and 200 feet west of the NE corner
  • Map Unit: 538B—Butternut silt loam, 1 to 6 percent slopes, very stony
  • State: Wisconsin
  • County: WI099—Price
  • MLRA: 90—Central Wisconsin and Minnesota Thin Loess and Till
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: WI099—Price County, Wisconsin
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 45090-H5—Butternut Lake, Wisconsin

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: John Lucassen, Jim Barnes, Dave Hvizdak
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, isotic, frigid Alfic Oxyaquic Haplorthods
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 4
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Butternut
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/25/2009
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eighth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - oxyaquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Beaverbay
  • Classificaton Date - 6/17/2003
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: silty eolian deposits over sandy lodgement till
  • Landform: drumlin on till plain
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments: 1.00 percent 250- to 600-millimeter
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/17/2003 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 219CB
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • 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

    ABBA

    ACTAE

    ADIAN

    ARTR

    CATH2

    TRILL

    Abies balsamea

    Actaea

    Adiantum

    Arisaema triphyllum

    Caulophyllum thalictroides

    Trillium

    balsam fir

    baneberry

    maidenhair fern

    Jack in the pulpit

    blue cohosh

    trillium

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

    densic material

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    74 - 203

    - 129 -

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

    ochric epipedon

    albic horizon

    spodic horizon

    argillic horizon

    0—18

    13—18

    18—46

    56—74

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    —5—

    —28—

    —18—
    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

    6

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    472

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    125

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    A—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/2), pinkish gray (7.5YR 6/2), dry; silt loam; strong medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 10.0 medium roots and 10.0 fine roots and 10.0 coarse roots; 1 percent by volume 75-?-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 1 percent by volume 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 03N04622; observed in pit, small
    E—13 to 18 centimeters (5.1 to 7.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/2), light brown (7.5YR 6/3), dry; silt loam; moderate thin platy structure; friable; 10.0 medium roots and 10.0 fine roots and 10.0 coarse roots; 1 percent by volume 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments and 1 percent by volume 75-?-250 millimeter unspecified fragments; clear wavy boundary.; observed in pit, small
    Bs—18 to 46 centimeters (7.1 to 18.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) silt loam; medium, and moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 4.0 very fine roots and 4.0 fine roots; 1 percent by volume 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments and 1 percent by volume 75-?-250 millimeter unspecified fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 03N04623; observed in pit, small
    E/B—46 to 56 centimeters (18.1 to 22.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/3) and strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), light brown (7.5YR 6/3), dry; silt loam; weak medium prismatic parts to moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 very fine roots and 0.5 fine roots; 2 percent faint brown (7.5YR 4/3) clay films; 1 percent fine prominent yellowish red (5YR 5/6) masses of oxidized iron; 1 percent by volume 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments and 1 percent by volume 75-?-250 millimeter unspecified fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 03N04624; observed in pit, small. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 245186; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 245186
    B/E—56 to 74 centimeters (22.0 to 29.1 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) and brown (7.5YR 5/3), light brown (7.5YR 6/3), dry; silt loam; weak medium prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 very fine roots and 0.5 fine roots; 10 percent faint brown (7.5YR 4/3) clay films; 10 percent fine faint reddish gray (5YR 5/2) iron depletions and 15 percent medium prominent yellowish red (5YR 5/6) masses of oxidized iron; 1 percent by volume 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments and 1 percent by volume 75-?-250 millimeter unspecified fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 03N04625; observed in pit, small. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 245187; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 245187
    2BCd—74 to 135 centimeters (29.1 to 53.1 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4) loamy sand; weak very thick platy structure; firm; coarse and 4 percent medium distinct yellowish red (5YR 4/6) masses of oxidized iron; 1 percent by volume 250-?-600 millimeter unspecified fragments and 4 percent by volume 75-?-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 5 percent by volume 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 03N04626; observed in pit, small. Redoximorphic features are in discontinous horizontal seams or strata.
    2Cd—135 to 203 centimeters (53.1 to 79.9 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4) loamy sand; structureless massive; firm; 1 percent by volume 250-?-600 millimeter unspecified fragments and 4 percent by volume 75-?-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 5 percent by volume 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments. Lab sample # 03N04627; observed in pit, small. Platy-like soil fragments.