====== 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) |Dry|All inc. Coarse, Gravelly & Cobbly |Pine Longleaf, Shortleaf, Sand|Pine, 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.