Soil Data Explorer - ST. LUCIE

Official Series Description

Lab Data Summary

Aggregate lab data for the ST. LUCIE soil series. This aggregation is based on all pedons with a current taxon name of ST. LUCIE, and applied along 1-cm thick depth slices. Solid lines are the slice-wise median, bounded on either side by the interval defined by the slice-wise 5th and 95th percentiles. The median is the value that splits the data in half. Five percent of the data are less than the 5th percentile, and five percent of the data are greater than the 95th percentile. Values along the right hand side y-axis describe the proportion of pedon data that contribute to aggregate values at this depth. For example, a value of "90%" at 25cm means that 90% of the pedons correlated to ST. LUCIE were used in the calculation. Source: KSSL snapshot (updated 2020-03-13). Methods used to assemble the KSSL snapshot used by SoilWeb / SDE

Pedons used in the lab summary:

MLRA	Lab ID	Pedon ID	Taxonname	CI	NSSL / NASIS Reports	Link To SoilWeb GMap
154	S28_007	S1982FL055007	St. Lucie	3	Primary | Supplementary | Taxonomy | Pedon | Water Retention | Correlation | Andic Soil Properties	27.2002811,-81.3546448
155	S05_027	1967-FL009-S05_027	St. Lucie	3	Primary | Supplementary | Taxonomy | Pedon | Water Retention | Correlation | Andic Soil Properties	28.3876858,-80.7541351
155	S50_020	1973-FL099-S50_020	St. Lucie	3	Primary | Supplementary | Taxonomy | Pedon | Water Retention | Correlation | Andic Soil Properties	26.5800552,-80.0843353
155	S49_001	S1970FL097001	St. Lucie	3	Primary | Supplementary | Taxonomy | Pedon | Water Retention | Correlation | Andic Soil Properties	28.224247,-81.1832199
155	S49_007	S1972FL097007	St. Lucie	3	Primary | Supplementary | Taxonomy | Pedon | Water Retention | Correlation | Andic Soil Properties	28.3477726,-81.2504196
155	S56_010	S1975FL111010	St. Lucie	3	Primary | Supplementary | Taxonomy | Pedon | Water Retention | Correlation | Andic Soil Properties	27.418047,-80.3150558
155	S31_014	S1982FL061014	St. Lucie	3	Primary | Supplementary | Taxonomy | Pedon | Water Retention | Correlation | Andic Soil Properties	27.5726242,-80.3784256

Water Balance

Monthly water balance estimated using a leaky-bucket style model for the ST. LUCIE soil series. Monthly precipitation (PPT) and potential evapotranspiration (PET) have been estimated from the 50th percentile of gridded values (PRISM 1981-2010) overlapping with the extent of SSURGO map units containing each series as a major component. Monthly PET values were estimated using the method of Thornthwaite (1948). These (and other) climatic parameters are calculated with each SSURGO refresh and provided by the fetchOSD function of the soilDB package. Representative water storage values (“AWC” in the figures) were derived from SSURGO by taking the 50th percentile of profile-total water storage (sum[awc_r * horizon thickness]) for each soil series. Note that this representation of “water storage” is based on the average ability of most plants to extract soil water between 15 bar (“permanent wilting point”) and 1/3 bar (“field capacity”) matric potential. Soil moisture state can be roughly interpreted as “dry” when storage is depleted, “moist” when storage is between 0mm and AWC, and “wet” when there is a surplus. Clearly there are a lot of assumptions baked into this kind of monthly water balance. This is still a work in progress.

Sibling Summary

Siblings are those soil series that occur together in map units, in this case with the ST. LUCIE series. Sketches are arranged according to their subgroup-level taxonomic structure. Source: SSURGO snapshot (updated 2024-02-21), parsed OSD records (updated 2023-10-02) and snapshot of SC database (updated 2023-10-02).

Select annual climate data summaries for the ST. LUCIE series and siblings. Series are sorted according to hierarchical clustering of median values. Source: SSURGO map unit geometry and 1981-2010, 800m PRISM data (updated 2023-10-09).

Geomorphic description summaries for the ST. LUCIE series and siblings. Series are sorted according to hierarchical clustering of proportions and relative hydrologic position within an idealized landform (e.g. top to bottom). Most soil series (SSURGO components) are associated with a hillslope position and one or more landform-specific positions: hills, mountain slopes, terraces, and/or flats. Proportions can be interpreted as an aggregate representation of geomorphic membership. The values printed to the left (number of component records) and right (Shannon entropy) of stacked bars can be used to judge the reliability of trends. Small Shannon entropy values suggest relatively consistent geomorphic association, while larger values suggest lack thereof. Source: SSURGO component records (updated 2023-10-04).

There are insufficient data to create the 3D mountains figure.

Competing Series

Soil series competing with ST. LUCIE share the same family level classification in Soil Taxonomy. Source: parsed OSD records (updated 2023-10-02) and snapshot of the SC database (updated 2023-10-02).

Select annual climate data summaries for the ST. LUCIE series and competing. Series are sorted according to hierarchical clustering of median values. Source: SSURGO map unit geometry and 1981-2010, 800m PRISM data (updated 2023-10-09).

Geomorphic description summaries for the ST. LUCIE series and competing. Series are sorted according to hierarchical clustering of proportions and relative hydrologic position within an idealized landform (e.g. top to bottom). Proportions can be interpreted as an aggregate representation of geomorphic membership. Most soil series (SSURGO components) are associated with a hillslope position and one or more landform-specific positions: hills, mountain slopes, terraces, and/or flats. The values printed to the left (number of component records) and right (Shannon entropy) of stacked bars can be used to judge the reliability of trends. Shannon entropy values close to 0 represent soil series with relatively consistent geomorphic association, while values close to 1 suggest lack thereof. Source: SSURGO component records (updated 2023-10-04).

There are insufficient data to create the 3D mountains figure.

Soil series sharing subgroup-level classification with ST. LUCIE, arranged according to family differentiae. Hovering over a series name will print full classification and a small sketch from the OSD. Source: snapshot of SC database (updated 2023-10-02).

Block Diagrams

Click a link below to display the diagram. Note that these diagrams may be from multiple survey areas.

1. FL-2011-05-31-04 | Indian River County - 1987

   Typical pattern of soils and parent material in the Astatula-Archbold-St. Lucie map unit and the Immokalee- Myakka-Satellite map unit (Soil Survey of Indian River County, Florida; 1987).

2. FL-2012-04-26-09 | Seminole County - June 1966

   Cross section of Seminole County showing the relationship between the geologic strata and artesian and nonartesian water, and the relative position of some of the sandy soils to the ground water table (Soil Survey of Seminole County, Florida; June 1966).

3. MS-2012-04-26-07 | Harrison County - June 1975

   Distribution and pattern of major soils in Handsboro-St. Lucie association (Soil Survey of Harrison County, Mississippi; June 1975).

Map Units

Map units containing ST. LUCIE as a major component. Limited to 250 records.

Map Unit Name	Symbol	Map Unit Area (ac)	Map Unit Key	National Map Unit Symbol	Soil Survey Area	Publication Date	Map Scale
St. Lucie-Leon-Muck complex	St	3403	328209	c0jd	al003	1961	1:20000
St. Lucie sand, 0 to 5 percent slopes	SsB	2709	328208	c0jc	al003	1961	1:20000
St. Lucie fine sand, 0 to 5 percent slopes	56	2488	1473342	2twsr	fl009	1990	1:24000
St. Lucie fine sand, 5 to 12 percent slopes	57	350	1473343	2x9fg	fl009	1990	1:24000
St. Lucie fine sand, 0 to 2 percent slopes	38	820	1384416	2tzwr	fl049	1981	1:20000
St. Lucie sand, 0 to 8 percent slopes	2	2810	1413502	2tzwq	fl055	1982	1:24000
St. Lucie sand, 0 to 8 percent slopes	11	853	756736	2tzwp	fl061	1984	1:20000
Paola and St. Lucie sands, 0 to 8 percent slopes	6	10124	1421558	1jq7q	fl085	1979	1:20000
Paola and St. Lucie sands, 8 to 20 percent slopes	77	1494	1421623	1jq9t	fl085	1979	1:20000
St. Lucie-Paola-Urban land complex, 0 to 8 percent slopes	34	871	1421582	1jq8h	fl085	1979	1:20000
St. Lucie fine sand, 0 to 5 percent slopes	38	3823	323152	2v17s	fl095	1986	1:20000
St. Lucie-Urban land complex, 0 to 5 percent slopes	39	2061	323153	bv89	fl095	1986	1:20000
St. Lucie fine sand, 0 to 5 percent slopes	43	2541	2866771	2twsr	fl097	1976	1:20000
Paola and St. Lucie soils and Urban land	20	1120	1017096	134ck	fl103	2003	1:24000
Paola and St. Lucie soils and Urban land, 5 to 12 percent slopes	21	510	1017101	134cq	fl103	2003	1:24000
St. Lucie fine sand, 0 to 5 percent slopes	29	2360	1425019	2v17s	fl105	1987	1:20000
St. Lucie sand, 0 to 8 percent slopes	42	2083	1421199	2tzwp	fl111	1990	1:24000
Paola-St. Lucie sands, 0 to 5 percent slopes	24	4680	1478708	1lmq8	fl117	1986	1:20000
St. Lucie fine sand, 0 to 5 percent slopes	62	1505	1544167	2twsr	fl127	1977	1:20000
St. Lucie fine sand, 0 to 2 percent slopes	34	1010	1389899	2tzwr	fl606	1981	1:20000
St. Lucie sand, 0 to 8 percent slopes	43	7118	1542297	2tzwq	fl607	1970	1:20000
St. Lucie fine sand, 0 to 5 percent slopes	25	1041	2822032	2twsr	fl609	1968	1:24000
St. Lucie-Paola-Urban land complex, 0 to 8 percent slopes	41	21800	1407300	1j7ds	fl611	1994	1:20000
St. Lucie sand, hummocky	Sv	812	332457	c4yf	ms047	1971	1:20000

Map of Series Extent

Approximate geographic distribution of the ST. LUCIE soil series. To learn more about how this distribution was mapped, or to compare this soil series extent to others, use the Series Extent Explorer (SEE) application. Source: generalization of SSURGO geometry (updated 2023-10-04).