Cuberant-Garlet, very stony families, complex, 60 to 80 percent slopes
Cuberant
(40%)
Upper Subalpine Cold Coniferous subalpine fir (Engelmann spruce) /thinleaf huckleberry-rusty menziesia/ Hitchcock's smooth woodrush-beargrass/yellow avalanche lily.
Typic Haplocryepts
Well drained
Hydric: No
PAWS: 5 cm
cirque headwalls / Footslope
Garlet
(30%)
Montane Stable Colluvial Slope Saskatoon serviceberry-common snowberry/Sitka alder/ Rocky mountain maple/thimbleberry/mountain brome-Geyer's sedge
Typic Haplocryepts
Well drained
Hydric: No
PAWS: 10 cm
cirque headwalls / Footslope
Rock outcrop
(7%)
Hydric: No
PAWS: NA
cirque headwalls / Shoulder
Kaina
(5%)
Alpine Unstable Talus rocky ledge penstemon (Penstemon ellipticus)
Typic Cryorthents
Well drained
Hydric: No
PAWS: 8 cm
cirque headwalls / Footslope
Nooney
(5%)
Alpine Krummholtz Coniferous subalpine fir-whitebark pine/grouse whortleberry Abies lasciocarpa-Pinus albicaulis (Picea engelmannii)/Vaccinium scoparium
Typic Haplocryepts
Well drained
Hydric: No
PAWS: 9 cm
cirque headwalls / Backslope
Risingwolf
(5%)
Subalpine Coniferous Cool Moderately Dry subalpine fir (Abies lasiocarpa) / Engelmann spruce (Picea engelmannii)
Andic Haplocryepts
Well drained
Hydric: No
PAWS: 12 cm
cirque headwalls / Backslope
Lowder
(5%)
Alpine Shallow Cirque Floors Arctic willow - pink mountainheath-alpine laurel /smallwing sedge -shortstalk sedge (Salix arctica-Phyllodoce empetriformis/Kalmia polifolia/Carex microptera-Carex podocarpa)
Typic Cryaquepts
Very poorly drained
Hydric: Yes
PAWS: 8 cm
drainageways
cirque headwalls / Toeslope
Piegan
(3%)
Alpine Nivation Hollow Payson's sedge / black alpine sedge -northern singlespike sedge / Drummond's rush (Carex paysonis/ Carex nigricans-Carex scirpoidea/ Juncus drummondii)
Typic Haplocryolls
Well drained
Hydric: No
PAWS: 5 cm
ridges / Summit
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