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                                         Mapped Type Name                                        Brief Description                                    Area (HA)       Area (AC)       Percent      Samples    Samples
                                                                This type includes all cropland where fields are fallow for some portion of the year. Some
                                         Row Crops              fields may rotate into and out of cultivation frequently, and year-round cover crops and   2,878,196.6   7,112,167.8   15.899%          329         27
                                                                tame hay fields are generally mapped as grassland/pasture types.

                                                                This type is mapped on prairie soils across much of the state and consists of mainly
                                                                successional young woodlands or shrublands, although some more natural communities
                                         Ruderal Deciduous      may occur.  Common components vary from region to region, and may include
                                         Shrubland and          honeylocust, winged elm, black locust, post oak, blackjack oak, pecan, Chickasaw plum,   164,504.4      406,498.5       0.909%           26         45
                                         Young Woodland         western soapberry, common persimmon, green ash, sumac species, hackberry species,
                                                                elm species, and Osage orange.  Eastern redcedar is not a major component of these
                                                                communities but may be present.

                                                                This type is mapped on prairie soils across much of the state and consists mainly of
                                                                relatively closed woodlands that vary a great deal in composition.  Common woody
                                         Ruderal Deciduous      species may include hackberry species, pecan, green ash, other ash species, elm         345,434.6       853,586.1       1.908%           85         50
                                         Woodland
                                                                species, honeylocust, black locust, catalpa, western soapberry, oak species, winged
                                                                elm, and Osage orange.  Eastern redcedar may be a component.


                                                                This type is mapped on prairie soils across much of the state, and ranges from relatively
                                         Ruderal Eastern        dense woodlands to more open shrublands where eastern redcedar is a significant
                                         Redcedar Woodland      component.  Common woody components vary by region, and may include hackberry            62,994.0       155,661.4       0.348%           20         18
                                         and Shrubland          species, winged elm, other elm species, green ash, other ash species, honeylocust,
                                                                black locust, western soapberry, lotebush, post oak, and Osage orange.



                                                                This type is mapped over prairie soils and contains mesquite among the dominants.
                                         Ruderal Mesquite       Other common components may include netleaf hackberry, lotebush, Opuntia species,         8,513.2        21,036.5       0.047%            2           3
                                         Shrubland
                                                                cheatgrass, broom snakeweed, prairie broomweed, Bermudagrass, and sand dropseed.


                                                                This type is mapped on prairie soils across much of the state, and consists of relatively
                                         Ruderal Mixed          dense woodlands where eastern redcedar is a significant component.  Common woody
                                         Deciduous - Eastern    components vary by region, and may include hackberry species, winged elm, other elm      26,084.7        64,456.6       0.144%            5         10
                                         Redcedar Woodland      species, green ash, other ash species, honeylocust, black locust, western soapberry,
                                                                lotebush, post oak, and Osage orange.
                                                                This type is mapped over prairies soils of western Oklahoma, and may contain a wide
                                                                variety of shrubs and patches of trees that increase under grazing pressure.  Common
                                                                woody components may include species such as soapweed yucca, sand sagebrush,
                                         Ruderal Plains                                                                                                  53,648.6       132,568.2       0.296%            6         23
                                         Shrubland              white sagebrush, tree cholla, Chickasaw plum, Siberian elm, sugar hackberry, and
                                                                soapberry.  Commonly encountered herbaceous species include broom snakeweed,
                                                                plains broomweed, and short grasses such as grama species, sand dropseed, and
                                                                brome species.




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