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No. Ground
Original truth
Mapped Type Name Brief Description Area (HA) Area (AC) Percent Samples Samples

This type is mapped along first and second order streams within narrow buffers, and is
Ozark-Ouachita: represented by vegetation influenced by a variety of water regimes and human impacts.
Riparian Mixed Shortleaf or loblolly pine (mainly Ouachitas), or eastern redcedar (mainly Ozarks), is a 17,700.3 43,738.3 0.098% 3 1
Evergreen - major component. Other species such as sycamore, river birch, sweetgum, maples,
Hardwood Woodland
oaks, and hazel alder may grow near steep banks or adjacent to stream bed cobble.

This type includes mixed stands of shortleaf or loblolly pine and oaks, and includes more
natural stands as well as areas that are more intensively managed for forest products.
Ozark-Ouachita: These areas had generally not been clear-cut in the period from 2000 to 2012.
Shortleaf Pine - Oak Important trees may include post oak, black or mockernut hickory, black oak, white oak, 277,833.9 686,541.5 1.535% 49 18
Forest
northern or southern red oak, and blackjack oak. Common understory species may
include flowering dogwood, hophornbeam, winged elm, St. Johnswort, and farkleberry.

This type consists mainly of loblolly pine plantations, although shortleaf pine is also
Pine Plantation planted. These areas were mature enough to be dominated by pines at the time of 216,846.3 535,838.1 1.198% 24 15
satellite data collection (circa 2012).

Pine Plantation - 1 - 3 This type consists of young pine plantations that were not mature enough to be clearly 59,106.0 146,053.8 0.326% 4 14
meters dominated by pines at the time of data collection (circa 2012).

Planted Non-native Grasslands or pasture typically planted with native grasses such as sideoats grama or
and/or Native little bluestem. Non-native grasses such as yellow bluestem or weeping lovegrass may 507,456.2 1,253,949.6 2.803% 48 64
Grasses be dominant or present.

This type is mapped on deep, aeolian or alluvial sands and is characterized by
woodlands with fairly low tree diversity that contain blackjack oak among the dominants.
Pleistocene Sands: Post oak may be present in the eastern part of the range of the type, and Havard shin
Blackjack Oak - oak may occur as an undstory component within its range. Eastern redcedar is often an 21,945.6 54,228.7 0.121% 5 34
Eastern Redcedar important component. Other woody components may include gum bumelia, western
Woodland
soapberry, netleaf hackberry, American elm, black locust, and Siberian elm. Common
shrubs include skunkbush sumac, Chickasaw plum, and sand sagebrush.

This type is mapped on deep, aeolian or alluvial sands and is characterized by
woodlands with fairly low tree diversity that contain blackjack oak among the dominants.
Pleistocene Sands: Post oak may be present in the eastern part of the range of the type, and Havard shin
Blackjack Oak oak may occur as an understory component within its range. Other woody components 36,731.0 90,764.2 0.203% 17 18
Woodland may include gum bumelia, western soapberry, netleaf hackberry, American elm, black
locust, eastern redcedar, and Siberian elm. Common shrubs include skunkbush sumac,
Chickasaw plum, and sand sagebrush.

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