Mesic Flatwoods
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Don Francis
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High-quality mesic (moist) flatwoods with old-growth
longleaf and turkey oak are found on the Budd Tract. Shrub and
herb diversity are high and include wiregrass, saw palmetto, wax
myrtle, gallberry, blueberry, scare-weed, toothache grass, Florida
dropseed, broomsedge, deer tongue, blazing star, various asters,
rabbit bells, rattlebox, and milk peas. Yellow trumpet pitcher
plants bloom in wet drainages. In other places on Joe Budd, pine
flatwoods are dominated by slash pine planted by previous owners.
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