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The Texas Blackland Prairies are a temperate grassland ecoregion located in Texas that runs roughly 300 miles (480 km) from the Red River in North Texas to San Antonio in the south. The prairie was named after its rich, dark soil. [3] Less than 1% of the original Blackland prairie vegetation remains, scattered across Texas in parcels. [4]
Houston black soil extends over 1,500,000 acres (6,100 km 2) of the Texas blackland prairies and is the Texas state soil. The series is composed of expansive clays and is considered one of the classic vertisols. [1] Houston black soils are used extensively for grain sorghum, cotton, corn, small grain, and
Louis René Barrera Indiangrass Wildlife Sanctuary Soil Analysis Map The clay-rich soil allows plants to grow healthier and more vigorous, in fact it has excellent water retention properties. Meaning they can hold moisture for longer periods and therefore the plants don't require frequent irrigation, which is a fundamental aspect given the ...
The rich dark soil of Dallas’s Blackland Prairie generates from the soft, slick Austin Chalk bedrock. Fertile soil and plentiful rain engendered a farming industry that forged the city’s ...
Most of us in the Metroplex garden in Blackland Prairie soils. Dark soils like we have are usually high in organic matter. That stands to reason, because the Blackland Prairie was the grassland of ...
Soils are deep, clayey, somewhat-poorly to poorly drained, and acidic. The Blackland Prairie Margins are undulating, irregular plains, with slightly more relief than the Flatwoods, but also tend to have heavy clay soils that are sticky when wet, hard and cracked when dry, with generally poor drainage. [4]
Chernozem (/ ˈ tʃ ɜːr n ə z ɛ m / CHUR-nə-zem), [a] also called black soil, regur soil or black cotton soil, is a black-colored soil containing a high percentage of humus [3] (4% to 16%) and high percentages of phosphorus and ammonia compounds. [4] Chernozem is very fertile soil and can produce high agricultural yields with its high ...
The Blackland Prairies, consisting of black, waxy, clay soils, are found to the east and south of the HNWR, while the sandy soils of the Eastern Cross Timbers are located west of the refuge. Of the refuge's 11,320 acres (45.8 km 2 ), about 2,600 acres (11 km 2 ) are classified as wetlands and 7,278 acres (29.45 km 2 ) are uplands .