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Duckston soil series

The Duckston series consists of poorly drained sands near the coast. These soils are in shallow depressions between coastal dunes and on nearly level flats between the dunes and the marshes. Slopes are 0 to 2 percent.

 

TAXONOMIC CLASS: Siliceous, thermic Typic Psammaquents

 

USE AND VEGETATION: The native plant community consists of waxmyrtle, black willow, black highbush blueberry, marshhay cordgrass, dotted smartweed, three square, virginia buttonweed, and sphagnum moss.

 

DISTRIBUTION AND EXTENT: Along the Atlantic coast in Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Virginia. The series is moderate in extent.

 

soilseries.sc.egov.usda.gov/OSD_Docs/D/DUCKSTON.html

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Uploaded on February 26, 2011
Taken in January 2007