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No.
No. Ground
Original truth
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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