South Florida pine flatwoods
The south Florida pine flatwoods are a flatwoods forest community found in central and southern Florida.
These flatwoods have open canopies of slash pine above a dense understory of low shrubs and grasses in places where low-intensity fires are frequent. Where fires have been suppressed, slash pine, shrubs, and saw palmetto become more dense.
In addition to saw palmetto, the shrubs Appalachian tea, coastal plain staggerbush, dwarf live oak, shiny blueberry, and rosy camphorweed can be found in the flatwoods. Wiregrass is the dominant grass.
This system is similar to Florida dry prairie, but has taller and denser shrub cover.
