IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Lotuspoint
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2005ID009001
  • User Pedon ID: S2005ID009001
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S2005ID009001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 05N0875
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 18386
  • Print Date: 2/17/2025

    • 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: 47.3493056
  • Std. Longitude: -116.4223333
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 46 N.
  • Range: 1 W.
  • Section: 11
  • PLSS Details: 2,550 feet north and 2,100 feet west of the southeast corner
  • Location Description: 1.1 miles southwest of St. Joe Baldy
  • Map Unit: 63—Lotuspoint, stony-Rock outcrop complex, 35 to 75 percent slopes
  • State: Idaho
  • County: ID009—Benewah
  • MLRA: 43A—Northern Rocky Mountains
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: ID608—St. Joe Area, Idaho, Parts of Benewah and Shoshone Counties
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 47116-C4—Saint Joe Baldy, Idaho

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, isotic, mesic Vitrandic Haploxerepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Lotuspoint
  • Classificaton Date - 11/7/2013
  • Classifier - Brian Gardner
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Lotuspoint
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy-skeletal, isotic, mesic Andic Haploxerepts
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 3/21/2013
  • Classifier - Brian Gardner
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Moisture SUBClass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: mixed volcanic ash and loess over residuum weathered from metasedimentary rock
  • Landscape: mountain system
  • Landform: mountain slope
  • Geomorphic Component Mountains: mountainflank, center third
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: indurated metasedimentary rock, unspecified at 79cm
  • Surface Fragments: 0.06 percent nonflat subrounded indurated 250- to 600-millimeter
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

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

    • SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 3/21/2013 (entry creation date)
  • 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

    2GP

    ACMI2

    CESA

    FEID

    FRAGA

    HODI

    HYPE

    MARE11

    PHILA

    PHMA5

    PIPO

    PSMEG

    PSSP6

    SORBU

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    Achillea millefolium

    Ceanothus sanguineus

    Festuca idahoensis

    Fragaria

    Holodiscus discolor

    Hypericum perforatum

    Mahonia repens

    Philadelphus

    Physocarpus malvaceus

    Pinus ponderosa

    Pseudotsuga menziesii var. glauca

    Pseudoroegneria spicata

    Sorbus

    Grass, perennial

    common yarrow

    redstem ceanothus

    Idaho fescue

    strawberry

    oceanspray

    common St. Johnswort

    creeping barberry

    mock orange

    mallow ninebark

    ponderosa pine

    Rocky Mountain Douglas-fir

    bluebunch wheatgrass

    mountain ash

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

    andic soil properties

    volcanic glass

    2—12

    2—25

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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

    63

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    1065

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    198

    1145

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    120

    8.9

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    Oi—0 to 2 centimeters (0.0 to 0.8 inches); slightly decomposed plant material; fragments.
    A1—2 to 12 centimeters (0.8 to 4.7 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), very dark brown (10YR 2/2), moist; stony ashy silt loam; weak very fine granular, and weak fine granular structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, slightly plastic; 5.0 very fine roots and 0.2 medium roots and 5.0 fine roots and 0.2 coarse roots; 5.0 very fine tubular and 5.0 very fine irregular and 0.5 medium irregular and 0.5 medium tubular and 5.0 fine irregular and 5.0 fine tubular pores; 5 percent by volume 250-?-600 millimeter unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume 75-?-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 15 percent by volume 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; noneffervescent; neutral, pH 6.8; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 05N04491
    A2—12 to 25 centimeters (4.7 to 9.8 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), very dark brown (10YR 2/2), moist; very cobbly ashy silt loam; weak fine granular, and weak medium granular structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, slightly plastic; 5.0 very fine roots and 0.2 medium roots and 5.0 fine roots and 0.2 coarse roots; 5.0 very fine tubular and 5.0 very fine irregular and 0.5 medium irregular and 0.5 medium tubular and 5.0 fine irregular and 5.0 fine tubular pores; 10 percent by volume 250-?-600 millimeter unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments and 25 percent by volume 75-?-250 millimeter unspecified fragments; noneffervescent; neutral, pH 6.8; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 5N04492