Upland Mixed WoodlandBy: Gene Galke

Mockernut HickoryLaurel Oak

It’s going down, I’m yelling timber…

Description

Overall Feeling

Soil structure

Layer breakdown

Rare species

Natural processes

Current status

Managing practices

Variations

Identifying imposters

Synonyms

The rundown

Category: High Pine & Scrub

Recently recognized

Soil Structure: Loamy soils

Upland hardwood forest ---- ---- Upland pine

I got a feelin’, you’re feelin’ it too…

San Felasco Hamock Preserve State Park

Itchetucknee Springs State Park

Slightly drier than upland hardwood forest

Characteristic species

Home, home on the range

In FL, Jackson to Marion counties, SE Georgia

More clay

Largely cultivated

Fragmented

Sandhill or upland pine & hardwood forest

Dirt class, once again…Horizon: Bt•12-48” •Strong brown clay, common yellowish brown, prominent red mottles•35-60% clay•Blocky structure•Firm•Sticky and plastic•Few fine & medium roots•Strongly acid

Just like that Georgia clay…

Loamy sands

Fine sandy loam

Nutrients

Examples

Raising the Roof

Southern red oak

Mockernut hickory

Post oak

Blackjack oak

Black oak

Shortleaf/ Longleaf pines

Possibly: Pignut hickory White oak

In the middle of the ride…

Subcanopy:

Shrubs or small trees Flowering dogwood Sparkleberry Rusty blackhaw Sassafras Hawthorns

Sparkleberry

Drop it down to the floor

Grasses

Forbs

Coppicing hardwoods

Ground layer species

New Jersey tea

Eastern poison ivy

Eastern poison oak

Little bluestem

Slender bluestem

Legumes

Yellow indiangrass

Silver plumegrass

Variable witchgrass

Dogtongue wild buckwheat

Oblongleaf twinflower

Rare species

Herbaceous Flyr’s brickell-bush Florida spiny-pod Gentian pinkroot Bluffs blazing star

Animals Sherman’s fox squirrel Invertebrates

Mycotrupes cartwright

Rare butterfly Autochton cellus WHY THERE?

Natural processes

Current research in FL

Extinguishing characteristic

Burn regiment Tall Timbers Research Under consideration

Status

Global Conservation Status Ranks

Global 2/Subnational 2

Imperiled

Workin’ all week for a backache

Longer burn intervals than neighbors

Fire resistance

Mechanical removals Laurel oak Sweetgum Water oak

What makes this habitat the way it is?

Variation

Shortleaf pine

Longleaf pine in Alachua & Marion counties

Identifying imposters

Distinguishing UMW from sandhill and upland pine Absence/low cover & co-dominance

Distinguishing UMW from upland hardwood forest Absence/near absence, presence, ground

diversity

By any other name…

Southern red oak forest

Red oak woods

Hardwood-pine woodlands

Shortleaf pine-oak-hickory

Upland pine

83-broadleaf deciduous-needleleaf evergreen upland forest