Wild Cranberry found near Sturgis, SK.
An Orthic Black Soil Profile.
Brown Chernozemic soil zone ﾖ corresponds largely with short-grass prairie in SW Saskatchewan.
Dark Brown Chernozem zone ﾖ for location see soil zone map.
Solonetzic soil in brown soil zone ﾖ these soils are influenced by saline conditions, often in lower landscapes where groundwater will near the surface.
Chernozem from black soil zone ﾖ these soils exist largely in moist mixed grassland and parkland regions.
Vertisol soil order ﾖ these shrinking-swelling soils occur in the prairies where there is very high clay content.
Dark Gray Chernoaem ﾖ a transition soil between prairie chernozems and forest Luvisols.
Brunisol soil ﾖ sandy forest soils that develop a mellow-yellow colour.
Gray Luvisol soil ﾖ these common forest soils have a characteristic B horizon of accumulated clay.
Organic soil ﾖ at elast 40 cm of organic material that has developed into a soil above the mineral horizon.