Chokecherry soil series

The Chokecherry series consists of shallow, well drained soils that formed in alluvium and residuum derived from red sandstone, red siltstone, yellow sandstone or siltstone, gray siltstone or loess influenced quartzite or rhyolite. Chokecherry soils are on mountain slopes, hillslopes, and ridges. Slopes range from 2 to 60 percent.

 

TAXONOMIC CLASS: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, superactive Lithic Haplocryolls

 

USE AND VEGETATION: Chokecherry soils are used for livestock grazing and wildlife habitat. The present vegetation is mainly mountain big sage, low sage, bluebunch wheatgrass, antelope bitterbrush, serviceberry, snowberry, rabbitbrush, lupine, and few mountain mahogany.

 

DISTRIBUTION AND EXTENT: Chokecherry soils are of small extent in southeastern and south-central Idaho; MLRA 43B and 13.

 

For additional information about Idaho soils, please visit:

storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/97d01af9d4554b9097cb0a477e04...

 

For a detailed description, visit:

soilseries.sc.egov.usda.gov/OSD_Docs/C/CHOKECHERRY.html

 

For acreage and geographic distribution, visit:

casoilresource.lawr.ucdavis.edu/see/#chokecherry

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