pine rocklands

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CPC Plant Profile - National Collection of Endangered Plants
... taxa in the flora of south Florida. Report T-558. U.S. National Park Service, South Florida Research Center, Everglades National Park: p.Pages 5-6. DERM. 1996. Endangered plants of Dade County's pine rocklands. Habitat characterization for Amorpha crenulata, Euphorbia deltoidea and Polygala smallii. Dade County Department of Environmental Resources Management. p. ...
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Floridata: Tecoma stans
... and dry forests in the region from Texas and Arizona southward to Argentina. It has become established in many parts of the Pacific and is naturalizing in South Florida. In South Florida, it invades dry disturbed sites, pine rocklands, and rockland hammocks. In the Pacific, it prefers wet or mesic sites. Culture Yellow elder will grow on a wide variety ...
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Center for Tropical Plant Conservation
... 's ecosystems are disrupted by expanding urbanization, agriculture and invasive exotic plants, yet urban South Florida depends fundamentally on these ecosystems. Particularly threatened are the pine rocklands, a site of imminent species extinctions. Restoring the local environment requires immediate and accurate documentation of the present condition of plant biodiversity throughout the region. ...
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South Florida Ecological Research
... natural habitat. Effects of fire surrogates on vegetation structure and community (2001-present) In the pine rockland ecosystem, it has been long understood that periodic fire is a critical natural function ... 2001. In Miami-Dade County, rose natal grass can be a persistent problem in disturbed pine rocklands. This ongoing study focuses on documenting negative effects of this grass and determining at ...
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East Everglades Orchids Society
... away as Colombia (Romero, 1993). This is primarily an orchid of sandy pinewoods and dry, fallow fields. Even in the pine rocklands of southern Dade County, the plant seems to occur only in pockets of sand within the oolitic limestone substrate. This orchid looks much like a Eulophia, producing long, yellowishgreen basal leaves and a tall inflorescence with the ...
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PinusieffreyiGrev
... Most of the usual soils that carry Jeffrey pine are coarse or gravelly sandy loams or loamy coarse sands that often merge with rocklands. Where these soils are of recent volcanic ... rabbits and snowshoe hares, pocket gophers, porcupines, and domestic livestock damage and kill young Jeffrey pine. Resident, mobile populations of these mammals make substantial losses likely in most areas. Pocket gophers ...
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