LOCATION LAKE FL
Established Series
Rev. AGH
10/2018
LAKE SERIES
The Lake series consists of excessively drained, rapidly to very rapidly permeable soils formed in thick beds of sand. They are on nearly level to steep slopes in central Florida. Slopes range from 0 to 30 percent.
TAXONOMIC CLASS: Hyperthermic, coated Typic Quartzipsamments
TYPICAL PEDON: Lake sand--cultivated. (Colors are for moist soil.)
Ap--0 to 7 inches; dark brown (10YR 3/3) sand; weak fine crumb structure; friable; many fine and medium roots; few clean light gray sand grains; medium acid; gradual wavy boundary. (3 to 8 inches thick)
C1--7 to 18 inches; brown (7.5YR 5/4) sand; many coarse faint dark brown (7.5YR 4/4) mottles; single grained; loose; many fine and medium roots; few uncoated sand grains; strongly acid; gradual wavy boundary.
C2--18 to 33 inches; strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) sand; single grained; loose; nonsticky; few fine roots; few uncoated sand grains; strongly acid; gradual wavy boundary.
C3--33 to 86 inches; yellowish red (5YR 5/8) sand; single grained; loose; nonsticky; few fine roots in upper 10 inches; many thinly coated sand grains; strongly acid.
TYPE LOCATION: Lake County, Florida. About 3 miles south of Astatula; 1/2 mile west of intersection of State Roads 561 and 455; 150 feet south of Highway 455. NE1/4NW1/4, sec. 18, T. 21
S., R. 26 E.
RANGE IN CHARACTERISTICS: Silt plus clay content ranges from 5 to 10 percent, and moisture equivalent is 2 percent or more within the 10- to 40-inch control section. Textures of sand or fine sand occur uniformly to depths of more than 80 inches. Soil reaction is strongly or very strongly acid except in the A horizon when limed.
The A or Ap horizon has hue of 10YR, value of 3 to 5, and chroma of 1 to 3.
The C horizon has hue of 2.5YR to 10YR, value of 4 to 6, and chroma of 3 to 8. Most sand grains are thinly but well coated with silt and clay in the 10- to 40-inch control section. A few uncoated sand grains occur, particularly in the lighter colored horizons. In some pedons there are thin discontinuous lamellae below a depth of 60 inches.
COMPETING SERIES: This is the
Gainesville series in the same family; in closely similar families are
Astatula and
Candler series. Gainesville soils have 10 to 25 percent silt plus clay within the 10- to 40-inch control section. Astatula and Candler soils are in uncoated families.
GEOGRAPHIC SETTING: Lake soils occur on nearly level to steep uplands in the Lower Coastal Plain. Gradients range to about 30 percent. These soils formed in beds of sandy marine, aeolian, or fluvial sediments more than 7 feet thick. At the type location, mean annual precipitation is 50 or more inches and the mean annual air temperature is about 73 degrees F.
GEOGRAPHICALLY ASSOCIATED SOILS: In addition to the competing
Astatula and
Candler series, these are the
Apopka,
Arredondo, and
Tavares series. Apopka and Arredondo soils have Bt horizons at depths of more than 40 inches. Tavares soils are in lower landscapes and are not as well drained.
DRAINAGE AND PERMEABILITY: Lake soils are excessively drained. Moisture-holding capacity is low; rapid or very rapid permeability. The ground water table is more than 80 inches deep.
USE AND VEGETATION: Large areas are used for citrus, and some are used for watermelons and improved pasture. Natural vegetation consists of bluejack, blackjack, turkey and live oaks, scattered longleaf pine, and an understory of scattered palmetto, pineland threeawn, bluestem, and paspalum.
DISTRIBUTION AND EXTENT: Mainly in Peninsular Florida in the southern part of the Central Florida Ridge. The series is of large extent.
MLRA SOIL SURVEY REGIONAL OFFICE (MO) RESPONSIBLE: Auburn, Alabama
SERIES ESTABLISHED: Lake County, Florida; 1970.
National Cooperative Soil Survey
U.S.A.