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                                         Mapped Type Name                                        Brief Description                                    Area (HA)       Area (AC)       Percent      Samples    Samples
                                                                This type is mainly represented by grazed pastures dominated by non-native and
                                                                grazing-tolerant species in the modern landscape.  Common components include
                                         Post Oak Savanna:      Bermudagrass, field brome, tall fescue, western (Cuman) ragweed, purpletop tridens,     119,156.2       294,441.0       0.658%           24           2
                                         Pasture/Grassland      and silver bluestem.  Woody components may include post oak, winged elm, Osage
                                                                orange, pecan, honeylocust, water oak, and eastern redcedar.


                                         Post Oak Savanna:      This type is mapped over more or less deep sands and is characterized by generally
                                         Post Oak - Eastern     open woodlands where eastern redcedar is a significant component.  Common trees              74.6           184.2       0.000%            0           0
                                         Redcedar Sandyland     include post oak, blackjack oak, sugar hackberry, southern red oak, hickory species, and
                                         Woodland               water oak.  Shrubs may include winged elm, farkleberry, and flowering dogwood.


                                                                This type is characterized by woodlands with eastern redcedar as a significant
                                         Post Oak Savanna:      component.  Common trees include post oak, blackjack oak, sugar hackberry, water
                                         Post Oak - Eastern     oak, southern red oak, and hickory species.  Shrubs may include winged elm,                 830.6          2,052.3      0.005%            0           0
                                         Redcedar Woodland
                                                                farkleberry, and flower dogwood.

                                                                This type is mapped over more or less deep sands and common trees include post oak,
                                         Post Oak Savanna:      blackjack oak, water oak, southern red oak, and hickory species.  Open stands may
                                         Post Oak Sandyland     include herbaceous cover with species such as pinweed, Florida snake-cotton, southern     1,351.5          3,339.6      0.007%            0           0
                                         Woodland
                                                                jointweed, and Alabama supplejack.

                                                                This type is characterized by woodlands dominated by species such as post oak,
                                         Post Oak Savanna:      blackjack oak, water oak, hickory species, pecan, cedar elm, and sugar hackberry.        35,035.1        86,573.6       0.194%            4           0
                                         Post Oak Woodland      Shrubs may include gum bumelia, American beautyberry, possumhaw, flowering
                                                                dogwood, and farkleberry.

                                                                This type is mapped over more or less deep sands and in the modern landscape if most
                                                                often characterized by grazed pasture with non-native and grazing-tolerant species such
                                         Post Oak Savanna:
                                         Sandyland Shrubland    as Bermudagrass, tall fescue, annual ragweed, and sandbur species.  Some areas with       2,888.4          7,137.4      0.016%            0           0
                                                                deeper sands may contain species such as little bluestem, Florida snake-cotton,
                                         and Grassland
                                                                pinweed, southern jointweed, and Alabama supplejack.  Vines such as eastern poison
                                                                ivy and greenbriar species are common.


                                                                This type represents pastures and woodland edges with sparse successional vegetation.
                                                                Common woody species include winged elm, post oak, water oak, blackjack oak,
                                         Post Oak Savanna:      common persimmon, honey locust, Osage orange, black hickory, eastern redcedar, and
                                         Young Woodland         pecan.  Herbaceous areas generally have non-native and grazing tolerant species such        653.6          1,615.0      0.004%            0           0
                                         Regrowth               as Bermudagrass, field brome, tall fescue, purpletop tridens, and silver bluestem.  Vines
                                                                such as eastern poison ivy and greenbriar are common.


                                                                This type is mapped where evidence of quarries, with bare ground, was present, only in
                                         Quarry                                                                                                           7,516.6        18,573.9       0.042%            2           1
                                                                the eastern half of the state.

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