Upland soils greater than 20 inches in depth, with a coarse (sandy or gravelly) texture. The site is composed of soils that support mid and tall grasses mixed with post oak, blackjack oak, or shortleaf pine and other woody vegetation. The vegetation was formed under migratory grazing and heavy impact from bison and other native wildlife, with fires in both the dormant and growing
Site Composition Maximum Observed Composition Percent Counted Toward SI
Vegetation Site 1 Site 2 Site 3 Site 1 Site 2 Site 3
  Grasses 70%
 big bluestem
 switchgrass
 Indiangrass
35 ______ ______ ___1___ ______ ______ ___1___
 little bluestem 15 ______ ______ ___4___ ______ ______ ___4___
 Canada wildrye
 sideoats grama
 purpletop
 dropseed
 Scribner panicum
 Flordia paspalum
 blue grama
 other natives
20 ______ ______ ___3___ ______ ______ ___3___
 invasives 0 ______ ______ ______ ___0__ ___0__ ___0__

Forbs and Legumes
 tickclover
 purple prairie clover
 catclaw sensitivebrier
 leadplant
 wild indigo
 scurfpea
 black samson
 perennial sunflower
 Pitcher's sage
 heath aster
 goldenrod
 sagewort
 ragweed
 other natives
 invasives
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 post oak
 blackjack oak
 sumac
 greenbrier
  buckbrush
 redbud
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 other natives
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