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How does the vegetation generally differ between various major cities in the South? I read in another thread that Nashville, for example, contains a lot of hardwood-type trees, as opposed to, say, Jackson, MS which would be very pine-heavy. Raleigh seems to contain a good mixture of both. Would this be accurate for a simple assessment? And what about other cities such as Louisville, Richmond, Charlotte, Atlanta, Birmingham, Jacksonville (FL), etc? Feel free to comment on other cities that may be smaller in size, too.
And can one generally say that as one progresses from more inland regions to the piedmont and coastal plain and then to the coast itself, the dominant type of tree generally progresses from hardwoods to pines to trees such as palmettos and live oaks that are generally found in close proximity to or more-or-less exclusively along the coast?
Very generally, you have the forests in the coastal plain dominated by Live Oak and Longleaf Pine, the Piedmont region dominated by red and white oak and Loblolly Pine and the Upper South introducing more hickory and some cedar.
Very generally, you have the forests in the coastal plain dominated by Live Oak and Longleaf Pine, the Piedmont region dominated by red and white oak and Loblolly Pine and the Upper South introducing more hickory and some cedar.
Very informative map, thank you. Do you by chance have the Western part as well?
Do a Google search for "US forest types map" and you'll get a variety of links. The US Forest Service has some PDFs of US forest types, that happened to be one that had a detailed zoom-in of parts of the South.
Generally speaking, in the South, the farther away from the coasts you get, the fewer pine trees and the more deciduous trees you have.
The Atlanta area is naturally a dense deciduous forest. Hence we still have a fairly dense deciduous tree canopy: oaks (white and red), poplars, sweat gum, and hickories are all native to our area.
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