Mesic
Flatwoods
High-quality mesic (moist) flatwoods with
old-growth longleaf and turkey oak are found on the Budd Tract.
Shrub and herb diversity are high and include wiregrass, saw
palmetto, wax myrtle, gallberry, blueberry, scare-weed, toothache
grass, Florida dropseed, broomsedge, deer tongue, blazing star,
various asters, rabbit bells, rattlebox, and milk peas. Yellow
trumpet pitcher plants bloom in wet drainages. In other places on
Joe Budd, pine flatwoods are dominated by slash pine planted by
previous owners.
Bottomland Hardwoods
Occur along the major drainages and contain a
variety of hardwoods including sweet bay, sweet gum, black gum,
swamp chestnut oak, hickory, southern magnolia, red maple, and
water oak.
Slope
Forest
Well-developed closed canopy forests of upland
hardwoods on steep slopes, bluffs, and ravines. Typical species
include those normally found in the Piedmont and southern
Appalachian Mountains such as black walnut, southern magnolia,
American beech, basswood, white oak, and bloodroot. Many rare
plants are found in the slope forest of Joe Budd including Florida
merrybells, orange azalea, Alabama azalea, Ashe's magnolia, pyramid
magnolia, Carolina lily, trout lily, and heartleaf. In April and
May, one of the largest populations of the rare and beautiful
silky-camillia blooms in the slope forest.
Pine-Oak
Uplands
Slash pine, oaks, hickories, sweet gum, dogwood,
persimmon, and many species of low shrubs. In the pine-oak uplands
of Joe Budd is found one of only 7 known populations of the
state-endangered Flyr's brickell-bush.
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All photos by Don Francis
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Cypress
Swamp
Bald cypress occurs along the Little River and the
shoreline of Lake Talquin. A few cypress ponds are scattered
throughout the area and are dominated by pond cypress and water
tupelo.
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