IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Ochopee
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S06FL021001
  • User Pedon ID: S2006FL021-001
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S06FL021-001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 06N0699
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 18816
  • Print Date: 1/10/2025

    • 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: 25.9789444
  • Std. Longitude: -81.3725278
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 52 S
  • Range: 29 E
  • Section: 1
  • PLSS Details: NW 1/4 of NW 1/4. About 350 feet south and 710 feet east of the northwest corner
  • Location Description: FAKAHATCHEE STRAND PRESERVE STATE PARK
  • Map Unit: 50—Ochopee fine sandy loam, low
  • State: Florida
  • County: FL021—Collier
  • Regional Office: 7—Auburn, AL
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: FL621—Collier County Area, Florida

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Hurt, Wade
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy, mixed, superactive, calcareous, hyperthermic Lithic Endoaquepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: not classified to current taxon name
  • Pedon Purpose: research site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Ochopee
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy, mixed, superactive, calcareous, hyperthermic Lithic Endoaquepts
  • Classificaton Date - 3/5/2006
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Moisture SUBClass - aquic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loamy and sandy marine deposits over limestone
  • Landscape: coastal plain
  • Landform: marine terrace, marsh
  • Geomorphic Component Flats: dip
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: concave
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: poorly
  • Bedrock: strongly coherent limestone, unspecified at 23cm
  • Geology: Silver Bluff formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 3/5/2006 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 56
  • Surface Water Kind: none observed
  • Plant Association Name: Freshwater Marsh (SFWMD Community)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Yield Study ID -
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    PAMO4

    PAVI2

    SALA

    SAPA

    Paspalum monostachyum

    Panicum virgatum

    Sagittaria lancifolia

    Sabal palmetto

    gulfdune paspalum

    switchgrass

    bulltongue arrowhead

    cabbage palmetto

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

    bedrock, lithic

    strongly coherent

    23 - 61

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

    lithic contact

    24—61

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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

    0

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    3.4

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    1279

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    365

    23

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    Immokalee Weather Station

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    A—0 to 16 centimeters (0.0 to 6.3 inches); black (7.5YR 2.5/1) interior fine sandy loam; 54 percent sand; 27 percent silt; 19 percent clay; moderate medium granular structure; very friable; low excavation difficulty; 5.0 very fine roots throughout and 5.0 fine roots throughout; 2 percent by volume shell fragments fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.5, pH meter; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 06N02912; very moist when described;
    AC—16 to 23 centimeters (6.3 to 9.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (2.5Y 3/2) interior loamy fine sand; 83 percent sand; 9 percent silt; 9 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky, and weak coarse subangular blocky structure; very friable; 3.0 very fine roots throughout and 3.0 medium roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout; 3 percent by volume shell fragments fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; moderately alkaline, pH 8.1, pH meter; abrupt irregular boundary. Lab sample # 06N02913; very moist when described;
    2R—23 to 61 centimeters (9.1 to 24.0 inches); bedrock; fragments. Lab sample # 06N02914