Houk soil and landscape

The Houk series consists of very deep, somewhat poorly drained soils on low terraces and bottomlands. They formed in mixed alluvium weathered from andesite, granite, rhyolite, and basalt. Permeability is slow. Slopes are 0 to 2 percent. The average annual precipitation is about 14 inches and the average annual air temperature is about 41 degrees F.

 

TAXONOMIC CLASS: Fine, smectitic, frigid Argiaquic Xeric Argialbolls

 

Average annual soil temperature - 41 to 45 degrees F

Depth to water table - 30 to 60 inches; April through September

Depth to mottles - 30 to 46 inches

Clay content in control section - 35 to 60 percent

 

USE AND VEGETATION: Used mainly for pasture, dry cropland, and some irrigated cropland. Crops are small grain and hay. Vegetation is silver sagebrush, foxtail barley, water tolerant grasses, common camas and willows.

 

DISTRIBUTION AND EXTENT: Southwestern and south-central Idaho. The soils are moderately extensive.

 

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/H/HOUK.html

 

For acreage and geographic distribution, visit:

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

 

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