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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
represented by vegetation influenced by a variety of water regimes and human impacts.
West Gulf Coastal Common overstory trees may include water oak, pecan, willow oak, sugar hackberry,
Plain: Small Stream post oak, sweetgum, green ash, blackgum, slippery elm, American elm, sycamore, and 13,410.9 33,139.0 0.074% 3 0
Hardwood Woodland
black willow. Shrubs such as buttonbush and river birch may occur in well-watered
areas.

This type is mapped along first and second order streams within narrow buffers, and
West Gulf Coastal may be represented by a variety of herbaceous wetlands. Common components include
Plain: Small Stream sedge and rush species, spikerush species, cattails, smartweeds, and moist-soil 137.0 338.5 0.001% 0 0
Herbaceous Wetland
grasses.

This type is mapped along first and second order streams within narrow buffers where
West Gulf Coastal loblolly pine is among the most important species. These stands are commonly the
Plain: Small Stream result of past timber management, but these areas could not be identified as former 1,774.5 4,384.9 0.010% 0 0
Mixed Pine - clear-cuts based on satellite remote sensing data from 2000 to 2012. Common
Hardwood Woodland associated trees include sweetgum, water oak, ash species, and elm species. Eastern
redcedar may also be an important component.

West Gulf Coastal This type includes areas that are seasonally or temporarily flooded along narrow stream
Plain: Small Stream corridors. Common overstory species include willow oak, water oak, water hickory, 2,291.8 5,663.2 0.013% 1 0
Seasonally Flooded American elm, slippery elm, sweetgum, and sugar hackberry.
Hardwood Woodland

This type circumscribes a variety of successional woodlands and shrublands in pastures
West Gulf Coastal or on forest edges, but does not include areas that were detected as having been logged
Plains: Young Upland between 2000 and 2012. Common species may include winged elm, sumac species, 5,437.5 13,436.3 0.030% 1 5
Hardwood Woodland sugar hackberry, sweetgum, common persimmon, possumhaw, green ash, and eastern
Regrowth redcedar. Elements of the West Gulf Coastal Palin: Pasture type may form an
herbaceous matrix.

This type often occurs in shallow soils or in cracks in igneous granite, rhyolite, or gabbro
rocks. Eastern redcedar is the prevailing dominant. The aspect can be patchy with very
Wichita Mountains: shallow soils or rocks exposed at the surface. Species such as post oak, blackjack oak,
Eastern Redcedar 1,393.4 3,443.1 0.008% 0 0
Shrubland netleaf hackberry, gum bumelia, and little walnut may be present. Little bluestem, tall
dropseed, and short grasses such as buffalograss, blue grama, and hairy grama may be
important in openings.

Wichita Mountains: This type represents eastern redcedar-dominated woodlands on slopes >20%. Common
Eastern Redcedar species include netleaf hackberry, post oak, blackjack oak, Shumard oak, bur oak, 1,361.8 3,365.0 0.008% 0 3
Slope Woodland chinkapin oak, American elm, and gum bumelia.

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