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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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