Fallsington soil series

Fallsington soil series consists of very deep, poorly drained, moderate or moderately slowly permeable soils that formed on Coastal plain uplands in loamy fluviomarine sediments with slope of 0 to 5 percent.

 

TAXONOMIC CLASS: Fine-loamy, mixed, active, mesic Typic Endoaquults

 

USE AND VEGETATION:

Major Uses: Adequately drained areas are used for growing general crops and truck crops including corn, soybeans, and small grains. Some areas are in pasture. Other areas are in woodland.

Dominant Vegetation: Wooded areas are white oak, water oak, willow oak, swamp chestnut oak, willow oak, swamp or red maple, sweet gum, black gum, holly, greenbriar, and pond pine. Loblolly pine occupies some formerly cultivated areas.

Managed woodland vegetation: Loblolly pine

Understory species: Black gum, sweet pepperbush, greenbriar, American holly and highbush blueberry.

 

DISTRIBUTION AND EXTENT:

Distribution: New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, and eastern Pennsylvania, and Virginia.

Extent: Large, over 300,000 acres

 

SERIES ESTABLISHED: Bucks County, Pennsylvania, 1936

 

For a detailed description, visit:

soilseries.sc.egov.usda.gov/OSD_Docs/F/FALLSINGTON.html

 

For acreage and geographic distribution, visit:

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

 

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