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Original truth
Mapped Type Name Brief Description Area (HA) Area (AC) Percent Samples Samples
This type is mapped on slopes >20% and may include a fairly wide diversity of overstory
trees. Common components include post oak, chinkapin oak, Buckley’s oak, black oak,
Arbuckle: Oak Slope Texas ash, bitternut hickory, and Shumard oak. Ashe juniper or eastern redcedar are 5,055.4 12,492.2 0.028% 5 0
Forest often components, and eastern redbud, gum bumelia, and elbowbush are common in
the understory.

This type may occur over limestone (more calcareous) or dolomite (less calcareous)
soils. Important deciduous species may include post oak, blackjack oak, black oak,
Arbuckle: Oak chinkapin oak, winged elm, sugar hackberry, Shumard oak, and Buckley oak. Ashe 18,594.8 45,948.7 0.103% 8 0
Woodland
juniper is common over limestones whereas eastern redcedar is common on less
calcareous soils.

In the modern landscape, this type is mainly dominated by grazing-tolerant native or
Arbuckle: non-native species such as field brome, Bermudagrass, prairie broomweed, purple 82,776.9 204,545.8 0.457% 39 0
Prairie/Pasture three-awn, and silver bluestem. Woody species such as sugar hackberry, winged elm,
honeylocust, and juniper species may be components.

This type circumscribes a variety of grasslands. In the modern landscape, non-native
and grazing-tolerant species such as Bermudagrass, field brome, marsh bristlegrass,
Arkansas Valley: thickspike tridens, and tall fescue are common components. Some native hay meadows 164,770.2 407,155.4 0.910% 24 1
Prairie/Pasture
or lightly grazed native sod may be dominated by native prairie species such as little
bluestem, switchgrass, yellow Indiangrass, and big bluestem.

This type occurs over more or less deep sands of the Arkansas River valley in far
eastern Oklahoma, and consists mainly of grazed pastures in the modern landscape,
Arkansas Valley: although some areas of native hay and disturbed sands near the river also occur.
Sandy Common components include Bermudagrass, field borne, thickspike tridens, and silver 996.5 2,462.4 0.006% 0 0
Prairie/Pasture
bluestem. Native hay meadows have species such as big bluestem, switchgrass, little
bluestem, and yellow Indiangrass.

This type consists of areas that were largely unvegetated at the time of satellite remote
Barren 40,862.8 100,974.0 0.226% 3 3
sensing data collection (circa 2012).
This type is represented mainly by open shrublands with skunkbush sumac, Gambel
Black Mesa: oak, mountain mahogany and Mohr's shin oak. Mesquite, one-seed juniper, and
Deciduous Shrubland succulents such as tree cholla and soapweed yucca are common. Grama species, little 5,493.4 13,574.5 0.030% 4 0
and Woodland
bluestem, silver bluestem, and sand dropseed are common grasses. .

This type forms sparse woodlands or shrublands dominated by one-seed juniper and
Black Mesa: Pinyon - two-needle pinyon. Common shrubs include skunkbush sumac, mountain mahogany, 8,894.3 21,978.3 0.049% 3 4
Juniper Shrubland and Gambel oak. Grasses may include sideoats, blue, and hairy grama, sand dropseed,
and tobosa. Soapweed yucca and tree cholla are common succulents.

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