Cypress and Mixed Hardwood Swamp
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Betsy Purdum
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Cypress swamps on Hilochee have been modified to varying degrees
by logging, fire, hydrological modifications, and agriculture.
Pond cypress is the dominant overstory species, but the cypress
is often mixed with hardwoods such as red maple, pop ash, black
gum, sweet bay, silk bay, and loblolly bay. The understory often
contains wax myrtle, willow, elderberry, dahoon holly, buttonbush,
royal fern, and sawgrass.
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