Habitats

Natural History | December 1, 2005| | Copyright

Hammock Vegetation beneath the slash pines and cabbage palms comprises mostly nonwoody species. The undergrowth is often dense with dwarf palmettos and with such vines as earleaf, saw greenbriers (both very prickly), muscadine, and summer grape, all tough on hikers. Various species of beak sedge, crowngrass, lovegrass, and witchgrass are common. Among the attractive flowers are four-petal Saint-John's-wort, Leavenworth's tickseed, orange milkwort, shortleaf gayfeather, showy milkwort, sleepy morning, snow squarestem, and whitetop aster.

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