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  2. Texas Blackland Prairies - Wikipedia

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    The Texas Blackland Prairies are a temperate grassland ecoregion located in Texas that runs roughly 300 miles (480 km) from the Red River in North Texas to San Antonio in the south. The prairie was named after its rich, dark soil. [3] Less than 1% of the original Blackland prairie vegetation remains, scattered across Texas in parcels. [4]

  3. List of trees of Texas - Wikipedia

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    The following is a list of widely known trees and shrubs found in Texas. [3] [4] [5] ... Blackland Prairies CTP Cross Timbers and Prairies STP South Texas Plains

  4. History of Texas forests - Wikipedia

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    Additional pockets of forest lands include the Cross Timbers areas of North Texas in the vicinity of the Dallas – Fort Worth metroplex, the Lost Pines Forest of Central Texas, as well as other areas throughout the savanna and blackland prairies that lie to the west of the Piney Woods and the coastal areas.

  5. Houston black (soil) - Wikipedia

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    Houston black soil extends over 1,500,000 acres (6,100 km 2) of the Texas blackland prairies and is the Texas state soil. The series is composed of expansive clays and is considered one of the classic vertisols. [1] Houston black soils are used extensively for grain sorghum, cotton, corn, small grain, and forage grasses.

  6. Western Gulf coastal grasslands - Wikipedia

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    Williams Prairie, a 10-acre (40,000 m2) remnant prairie preserve west of Houston in Waller County, Texas, USA. The ecoregion covers an area of 77,425 km 2 (29,894 sq mi), extending along the shore of the Gulf of Mexico from southeastern Louisiana (west of the Mississippi Delta) through Texas and into the Mexican state of Tamaulipas as far as the Laguna Madre.

  7. Category : Grasslands of the North American Great Plains

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    Texas Blackland Prairies This page was last edited on 1 May 2023, at 03:53 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 ...

  8. Cross Timbers - Wikipedia

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    [17] Josiah Gregg described the Cross Timbers in 1845 as varying in width from five to thirty miles and attributed their denseness to the continual burning of the prairies. [18] The Cross Timbers vary in width from five to thirty miles, and entirely cut off the communication betwixt the interior prairies and those of the great plains.

  9. Piney Woods - Wikipedia

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    By the late 18th century, the Blackland Prairie was a mosaic of woodland, savanna, and prairies. Today, the fertile soils of the Blackland Prairie are mostly used for pastureland, woodland, and hayland. Only a few prairie remnants still occur and are mostly limited to the thin, droughty soils of cuesta scarps. [31] [35] Settlements include ...