Natural Communities
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Florida Natural Areas Inventory
Catesby's Lily - Lilium catesbaei
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Pine flatwoods, wet prairies, and freshwater marshes
encompass over 90 percent of the Jones/Hungryland Wildlife and
Environmental Area. The area was historically a mix of pine flatwoods
interspersed with sloughs draining east toward the Loxahatchee
River and the Atlantic Ocean. In many places sloughs have been
channelized and diked so that what remain today are isolated cypress
strands, seasonal ponds, and wet prairies. Some areas of former
Everglades marsh are now wet prairie. Although relatively pristine
compared with pine flatwoods in other places in south Florida,
the pine flatwoods on Jones/Hungryland Wildlife and Environmental
Area have deteriorated as a result of fire suppression.
