Deep Sand
Sandy, coarse textured, rapidly permeable, soils greater than 20 inches deep. This site is
predominately a tall grass site with some woodies and a variety of forbs and legumes, occurring as
gently undulating, low hummocky or steep rolling uplands. The vegetation was formed under migratory
grazing and heavy impact from bison and other native wildlife, with fires in both the dormant and grow-ing
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Site Composition Maximum |
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little bluestem |
10 |
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big bluestem
switchgrass
Indiangrass |
35 |
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sand lovegrass
Canada wildrye
Texas bluegrass
sideoats grama
blue grama
tall dropseed
sand dropseed
purpletop
Scribner's panicum
other natives
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25 |
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invasives |
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Forbs and Legumes
prairie acacia
groundplum
tickclover
roundhead lespedeza
scurfpea
catclaw sensitivebrier
trailing wildbean
western ragweed
sagewort
Texas croton
snow-on-the-mountain
halfshrub sundrop
other natives
invasives
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sand sagebrush
hackberry
sand plum
fragrant sumac
other natives
invasives
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