Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- A local name in Ohio for valleys formerly occupied by rivers but now flats and covered with woods.
- In Alabama, especially in the Coosa valley, a type of land consisting of an impervious clay derived from the Cambrian shales, supporting a dense growth of dwarf oaks, pines, etc.
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Examples
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Pine flatwoods, pine savannas, freshwater marshes, pond pine woodlands, pocosins, and some sandhill communities were once common.
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Most of the prairie, savanna, and flatwoods have been replaced with cropland.
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Soils of the sloughs, low flatwoods and depressions are poorly drained to very poorly drained (Scranton-Rutlege, Pickney-Pamlico-Dorovan)
Apalachicola National Estuarine Research Reserve, Florida 2009
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Natural communities within ANERR, including scrub, wet flatwoods, marshes and mesic flatwoods are adapted to and/or dependent on fire to maintain species composition and diversity.
Apalachicola National Estuarine Research Reserve, Florida 2009
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Soils of the flatwoods are very poorly drained to poorly drained (Plummer-Surrency-Pelham, Leon-Scranton-Lynn Haven)
Apalachicola National Estuarine Research Reserve, Florida 2009
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Upland habitats include sandhills, coastal scrub, pine flatwoods and mixed hardwood communities.
Apalachicola National Estuarine Research Reserve, Florida 2009
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Soils of the low uplands and high flatwoods are somewhat poorly drained to moderately well drained (Albany-Blanton-Stilson)
Apalachicola National Estuarine Research Reserve, Florida 2009
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Higher ones are dominated by pine flatwoods, but pastureland and hayland also occur.
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Major vegetative communities on the islands include beach/dune, slash pine flatwoods, oak-rosemary scrub and tidal marsh.
Apalachicola National Estuarine Research Reserve, Florida 2009
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A variety of vegetative communities, such as coastal scrub, dunes, pine flatwoods, oak hammocks, marshes, ponds and sloughs are found on the reserve's islands.
Apalachicola National Estuarine Research Reserve, Florida 2009
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