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Conservation Service
Ecological site F111XE301OH
Wet Restricted
Last updated: 9/11/2024
Accessed: 11/13/2024
General information
Provisional. A provisional ecological site description has undergone quality control and quality assurance review. It contains a working state and transition model and enough information to identify the ecological site.
MLRA notes
Major Land Resource Area (MLRA): 111X–Indiana and Ohio Till Plain
111E – Indiana and Ohio Till Plain, Eastern Part. Most of this area is in the Till Plains Section of the Central Lowlands Province of the Interior Plains. The northeast tip of the area is in the Southern New York Section of the Appalachian Highlands. The entire area has been glaciated. It is dominated by ground moraines that are broken in places by kames, lake plains, outwash plains, terraces, and stream valleys. Narrow, shallow valleys commonly are along the few large streams in the area. Elevation ranges from 580 to 1,400 feet (175 to 425 meters), increasing gradually from west to east. Relief is mainly a few meters, but in some areas hills rise as much as 100 feet (30 meters) above the adjoining plain.
The extent of the major Hydrologic Unit Areas (identified by four-digit numbers) that make up this MLRA is as follows: Scioto (0506), 33 percent; Muskingum (0504), 31 percent; and Western Lake Erie (0410), 28 percent; Upper Ohio (0503), 5 percent; and Southern Lake Erie (0411), 3 percent. The headwaters of many rivers in central Ohio, including the Vermillion, Black Fork, Sandusky, Little Scioto, and Olentangy Rivers, are in this MLRA.
This MLRA is underlain by late Devonian shale and sandstone. Surficial materials include glacial deposits of till, glaciolacustrine sediments, and outwash from Wisconsin and older glacial periods.
Classification relationships
Major Land Resource Area (USDA-Natural Resources Conservation Service, 2006)
USFS Ecological Regions (USDA, 2007):
Sections –Central Till Plains, Beech Maple (222H), Western Glaciated Allegheny Plateau (221F)
Subsections – Allegheny Plateau (221Fa), Bluffton Till Plains (222Ha), Miami-Scioto Plain – Tipton Till Plain (222Hb)
NatureServe Systems anticipated (NatureServe, 2011): Agriculture - Cultivated Crops and Irrigated Agriculture, Agriculture – Pasture/Hay, North-Central Interior Dry-Mesic Oak Forest and Woodland, Northeastern Interior Dry-Mesic Oak Forest, Ruderal Forest
LANDFIRE Biophysical Settings anticipated (USGS, 2010): Northeastern Interior Dry-Mesic Oak Forest, North-Central Interior Dry-Mesic Oak Forest and Woodland
Ecological site concept
This site is an upland site generally formed on residium weathered from sandstone overlain with till or loess. The depth to the restrictive layer is greater than 30 inches. Drainage is somewhat poorly drained with slopes generally from 0-4%. The characteristic vegetation of this site is that of a forest comprised largely of fire sensitive, shade tolerant species. The dominant canopy level species include sugar maple, American beech, and tuliptree. Gap phase regeneration is the most common disturbance dynamic on the site and allows these species to reach the canopy. Windthrow and ice storms are larger scale disturbance mechanisms, but they incur very infrequently. The site can be susceptible to the establishment and dominance of the understory by woody, invasive, non-native species. Most of this historically woodland site is now being for agriculture to include hay, pasture, and row crops.
Associated sites
F111XE302OH |
Dry Restricted Soils are moderately well to well drained |
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Similar sites
F111XE102OH |
Lacustrine Forest Located on lacustrine parent materials; no soils restrictive layer within 36 inches of the surface; soils are somewhat poorly drained or drier. |
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F111XE403OH |
Outwash Upland Located on outwash parent materials; soils are very poorly to somewhat poorly drained; soils do not have a restrictive layer within 36 inches of the surface. |
F111XE502OH |
Wet Till Ridge Located on glacial till parent materials; site is located on a convex landscape position; soils do not have a restrictive layer within 36 inches of the surface. |
F111XE503OH |
Till Ridge Located on glacial till parent materials; site is located on a convex landscape position; soils are moderately well to well drained; soils do not have a restrictive layer within 36 inches of the surface. |
Table 1. Dominant plant species
Tree |
(1) Acer saccharum |
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Shrub |
Not specified |
Herbaceous |
Not specified |
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