Natural Resources
Conservation Service
ecological site group ESG9
Playas and lakebeds
Accessed: 06/26/2026
Ecological site group description
Key Characteristics
- Flooded (low-lying landscape position, evidence of water flow and/or high production, narrow inset fans, bottomlands, river flood plains or meadows; Flooded soils group)
- Not in a river floodplain
- Level lake plains occupying lowest part of closed depressions in which flood waters persist long enough to prevent perennial vegetation in most areas
Provisional. A provisional ecological site description has undergone quality control and quality assurance review. It contains a working state and transition model and enough information to identify the ecological site.
Climate
Basin floors, intermittently to seasonally inundated, varying mineralogies.
Vegetation dynamics
Basin floors, intermittently to seasonally inundated, varying mineralogies.
Major Land Resource Area
MLRA 042B
Southern Rio Grande Rift
Correlated Map Unit Components
22054037, 22054038, 22054157, 22054160, 22054203, 21838221, 21838215, 21838137, 21838182, 21838183, 21838048, 21838047, 21838307, 21838306, 21838310, 21838309, 21838311, 21838213, 21838116, 21838600, 21838552, 21838557, 21838558, 21838513, 21838512, 21838486, 21838485, 21838489, 21838488, 21838490, 21838594, 21838540, 21838517, 21838516, 21838515, 21838544, 21838509, 21838522, 21838523, 21838574, 21838575, 21838576, 21838546
Stage
Provisional
Contributors
Curtis Talbot
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