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Mapped Type Name Brief Description Area (HA) Area (AC) Percent Samples Samples
This uncommon type may occur in areas of relatively continuous or discontinuous soils,
Wichita Mountains: so may be more or less patchy in nature. Eastern redcedar is the common dominant,
Eastern Redcedar and species such as post oak, blackjack oak, netleaf hackberry, gum bumelia, and little 292.5 722.8 0.002% 0 0
Woodland
walnut may be components.
This type includes areas that were essentially barren with exposed igneous rocks in all
Wichita Mountains: seasons at the time of data acquisition (circa 2012). Short grasses and annual forbs 532.8 1,316.6 0.003% 0 0
Granite Outcrop
may be present.

Wichita Mountains: This type is mapped on slopes >20% and composition is similar to the Wichita
Low Stature Oak Mountains: Low Stature Oak Woodland and Shrubland. Stands tend to be more closed 5,562.2 13,744.4 0.031% 4 3
Slope Woodland and with taller individual trees and fewer herbaceous-dominated openings.
Shrubland

This type often occurs in shallow soils or in cracks in igneous granite, rhyolite, or gabbro
Wichita Mountains: rocks. The aspect can be patchy with very shallow soils or rocks exposed at the
Low Stature Oak surface. Post oak is the most common dominant, and species such as blackjack oak, 5,741.6 14,187.7 0.032% 2 2
Woodland and netleaf hackberry, gum bumelia, and little walnut may be present. Little bluestem, tall
Shrubland dropseed, and short grasses such as buffalograss, blue grama, and hairy grama may be
important in openings.

Wichita Mountains:
Oak - Eastern This type represents eastern redcedar-dominated woodlands on slopes >20%. Common 172.7 426.7 0.001% 0 2
species include netleaf hackberry, post oak, blackjack oak, netleaf hackberry, Shumard
Redcedar Slope oak, bur oak, chinkapin oak, American elm, and gum bumelia.
Woodland
Wichita Mountains: This uncommon type contains eastern redcedar among the dominants, together with
Oak - Eastern species such as post oak, blackjack oak, chinkapin oak, gum bumelia, netleaf hackberry, 113.8 281.2 0.001% 0 0
Redcedar Woodland and little walnut.

This type is mapped on slopes >20% and composition is similar to the Wichita
Wichita Mountains: Mountains: Oak - Eastern Redcedar Woodland type. Stands tend to be more closed 4,645.0 11,478.1 0.026% 4 2
Oak Slope Woodland
with taller individual trees and fewer herbaceous-dominated openings.
This type most often occurs over relatively continuous soils with few openings, and is
represented in a variety of land positions. Post oak is the most common dominant,
Wichita Mountains: followed by blackjack oak. Western occurrences may have netleaf hackberry replacing 6,947.7 17,168.0 0.038% 3 3
Oak Woodland post oak as the dominant. Other species may include chinkapin oak, netleaf hackberry,
gum bumelia, and little walnut. Species such as bur oak, American elm, pecan, and
sugar maple may occur in more mesic areas.
Totals 18,103,050.4 44,733,542.7 100% 3,714 1,146

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