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.

Service Forester's Handbook

User Tools

Site Tools

Site Guide for Coastal Plain

Features often Correlated with Site Index

Page Tools