During my thesis research, we found that the Western Spring Beauty was a highly variable source of dietary mineral nutrition. In order to hypothesize why the corms contained variable levels of nutritive content, we decided to examine potential differences in soil content. In order to do this we used the SSURGO data overlaid with sample locations (e.g. Sherman Creek, St. Paul's Mission), as well as areas we observed the plant growing, but did not sample (PersObs1 and 2), and herbarium specimen record (e.g. accession 111937 and 31473). Using the data in the SSURGO dataset, we determined spring beauty grows in many distinct types of soil. Above each type of soil is listed by MUKEY and represented as a different color.
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