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Northern Post Oak Savanna 33a Southern Post Oak Savanna 33b San Antonio Prairie 33c Northern Prairie Outliers 33d Bastrop Lost Pines 33e Floodplains and Low Terraces 33f. The East Central Texas forests or East Central Texas Plains (33) is a small temperate broadleaf and mixed forests ecoregion almost entirely within the state of Texas, United ...
Lake Athens is in the Texas Post Oak Savannah wildlife district. It has many types of trees including pecans, elms, oak, eastern red cedar, and walnuts.There are over 200 varieties of wildflowers at Lake Athens. The wildflower season begins in early spring and ends at the first frost of the year.
Quercus stellata, the post oak or iron oak, is a North American species of oak in the white oak section. It is a slow-growing oak that lives in dry areas on the edges of fields, tops of ridges, and also grows in poor soils, and is resistant to rot, fire, and drought. Interbreeding occurs among white oaks, thus many hybrid species combinations ...
These old-growth forests contain millions of post oak from 200 to 400 years old and red cedar over 500 years old. [5] The prairie portions are chiefly tallgrass on finer, dry soils. [2] Overall, the Cross Timbers are not as arable as the surrounding ecoregions. [3] Today, land use is a mixture of rangeland, pastures, and farmland. [2]
In addition, the park is part of the Post Oak Savannah, an ecological region of 8,500,000 acres (3,400,000 ha) of hilly lands that includes scattered oaks, mainly post oaks and blackjack oak. Most of this ecoregion is somewhat arid due to its clay soil, but the area in Bastrop is an exception.
Map of oak savanna distribution in North America. Although there are pockets of oak savanna almost anywhere in North America where oaks are present, there are three major oak savanna areas: 1) California, British Columbia, Washington and Oregon in the west; 2) Southwestern United States and northern Mexico; and 3) the prairie/forest border zone of the Midwestern United States.
Pines are often present as well. This forest is found in fire-sheltered locations surrounded by pine-dominated uplands, including slopes near rivers and sinkholes. Sand laurel oak (Quercus hemisphaerica) is the typical oak species; post oak (Quercus stellata), southern red oak (Quercus falcata), and white oak (Quercus alba) are associates. The ...
The Texas Blackland Prairies ecoregion covers an area of 50,300 km 2 (19,400 sq mi), consisting of a main belt of 43,000 km 2 (17,000 sq mi) and two islands of tallgrass prairie grasslands southeast of the main Blackland Prairie belt; both the main belt and the islands extend northeast–southwest.