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Mapped Type Name Brief Description Area (HA) Percent
Planted Non-native Grasslands or pasture typically planted with native grasses such as sideoats grama or little bluestem. Non-native
and/or Native grasses such as yellow bluestem or weeping lovegrass may be dominant or present. 507,456.2 2.803%
Grasses
This type includes areas that are built-up or partially cleared of vegetation but not entirely covered by impervious
Urban Low Intensity cover, and includes most of the non-industrial areas within cities and towns. 489,168.3 2.702%

This type is mapped on bottomland soils across a variety of hydrologic regimes and various stages of disturbance.
Common canopy dominants may include pecan, green ash, slippery elm, sycamore, sugar hackberry, honeylocust,
South Central boxelder, Shumard oak, bur oak, black willow, and American elm. Vines such as eastern poison ivy, grape
Interior: Bottomland species, peppervince species, Virginia creeper, and greenbriar species may be conspicuous components. 436,959.8 2.414%
Hardwood Forest
Herbaceous species many include species such as Virginia wildrye, Indian woodoats, longleaf woodoats,
Johnsongrass, Bermudagrass, and sedge species.

This type circumscribes broad variation, but in the modern landscape most representatives are grazed pastures.
Common species are non-native and grazing tolerant grasses and forbs such as Bermudagrass, tall fescue, annual
Ozark-Ouachita: ragweed, field brome, purple top tridents, sericea lespedeza, prairie broomweed, and sneezeweed. Less heavily 388,110.5 2.144%
Pasture/Prairie grazed areas may support grasslands with species such as little bluestem, big bluestem, and yellow Indiangrass.
Woody species such as post oak, black walnut, common persimmon, winged elm, sumac species, and eastern
redcedar may be components.

This type is mapped over aeolian or alluvial deep sands. Common herbaceous species in the modern landscape
High Plains: Sand include little bluestem, sand bluestem, switchgrass, sand dropseed, sand lovegrass, sandburs, western ragweed, 351,966.6 1.944%
Prairie field brome, cheatgrass, Bermudagrass, and giant sandreed. Common shrubs include sand sagebrush, Chickasaw
plum, Havard shin oak (within range), and soapweed yucca.
This type is mapped on prairie soils across much of the state and consists mainly of relatively closed woodlands
Ruderal Deciduous that vary a great deal in composition. Common woody species may include hackberry species, pecan, green ash, 345,434.6 1.908%
Woodland other ash species, elm species, honeylocust, black locust, catalpa, western soapberry, oak species, winged elm,
and Osage orange. Eastern redcedar may be a component.
This type was open water during all seasons at the time of data acquisition for the current classification (circa
Open Water 330,377.5 1.825%
2012).
This type was mapped over slopes >20% and on low flats. Closed-canopy forests with species such as white oak,
Ozark-Ouachita: Dry- hickory species, black oak, northern red oak, and chinkapin oak are characteristic of this type. The most mesic 322,587.6 1.782%
Mesic Oak Forest areas may contain sugar maple as an important component. Flowering dogwood, redbud, hophornbeam, and
sassafras are common woody understory species.

This type includes mixed stands of shortleaf or loblolly pine and oaks, and includes more natural stands as well as
Ozark-Ouachita: areas that are more intensively managed for forest products. These areas had generally not been clear-cut in the
Shortleaf Pine - Oak period from 2000 to 2012. Important trees may include post oak, black or mockernut hickory, black oak, white oak, 277,833.9 1.535%
Forest northern or southern red oak, and blackjack oak. Common understory species may include flowering dogwood,
hophornbeam, winged elm, St. Johnswort, and farkleberry.
This type occurs mainly over unbroken sod in grazed pastures in the modern landscape, but some native hay
meadows are also present. Common grazing-tolerant species include field brome, tall fescue, silver bluestem,
Flint Hills: Tallgrass prairie broomweed, and western (Cuman) ragweed. Tallgrass prairie elements may include little bluestem, big 218,985.6 1.210%
Prairie/Pasture bluestem, switchgrass, heath aster, leadplant, Canada goldenrod, and gayfeather species. Woody plants such as
eastern redcedar, honeylocust, pecan, common persimmon, and Chickasaw plum may be present.

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