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Site Guide for Coastal Plain

Landscape Characteristics Management Type
Landform Moisture Regime Soil Texture Preferred Suitable
Flood Plains, Stream Terraces, And Alluvial Fans Wet Fine Hardwoods, Ash, Gum, W/W Oaks, Cypress
Moist Fine to Medium Oaks, Cherrybark, Nuttall, Shumard, Etc. Cottonwood, Ash, Sycamore
Landscape Characteristics Management Type
Landform Moisture Regime Dominant Soil Texture Preferred Suitable
Uplands Wet All Hardwoods, W/W Oaks, Gum Pine Loblolly, Slash
Moist Fine to Medium Hardwood, Pine
Fine Pine, Loblolly, Slash Pine, Shortleaf
(Mostly Ridges) DryAll inc. Coarse, Gravelly & Cobbly Pine Longleaf, Shortleaf, SandPine, Loblolly
Severely Eroded Pine Loblolly

Features often Correlated with Site Index

Soil Features:

 1. Surface soil depth, depth to mottling, depth to impermeable layer, effective soil depth.
 2. Texture and stone content
 3. Structure and drainage, subsoil color, and mottling.

Topographic Features:

 1. Aspect, slope position, slope steepness, slope shape.
 2. Elevation, Latitude

Climatic Features:

 1. Annual rainfall, growing season rainfall, temperature.      
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