Nearly level to gently sloping upland soils with fine or medium-textured topsoils and moderately deep impervious subsoils within 20 inches of the surface. This site is a mid and short grass dominant vegetation on gentle slopes. The site contains forbs, legumes, and grasses. Roots seldom penetrate the claypan. The vegetation was formed under migratory grazing and heavy impact from bison and other native wildlife, with fires in both the dormant and growing season.
Site Composition Maximum Observed Composition Percent Counted Toward SI
Vegetation Site 1 Site 2 Site 3 Site 1 Site 2 Site 3
  Grasses 70%
 sideoats grama 25 _10_ ______ ______ _10_ ______ ______
 blue grama 20 _5__ ______ ______ _5__ ______ ______
 buffalograss 10 _6__ ______ ______ _6__ ______ ______
 dropseed 5 ______ ______ ______ ______ ______ ______
 big bluestem
 Indiangrass		 5 ______ ______ ______ ______ ______ ______
 little bluestem 5 _5__ ______ ______ _5__ ______ ______
 western wheatgrass
 vine mesquite
 Scribner's panicum
 fall witchgrass
 other natives
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 invasives 0 _20_ ______ ______ ___0__ ___0__ ___0__
Forbs and Legumes
 leadplant
 tickclover
 purple prairie clover
 groundplum
 catclaw sensitivebrier
 Illinois bundleflower
 wild indigo
 milkweed
 sagewort
 dotted gayfeather
 prairie coneflower
 halfshrub sundrop
 goldenrod
 other natives
 invasives 		14%
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 mesquite
 other natives
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