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Comprehensive Plan Conservation Element <br />FLORIDA ... <br />(GENERALIZED LOCATION) <br />/o <br />Date: 1989 <br />SCALE 0, 3 MP -4 <br />rA <br />------------------- <br />Source: Indian River County Planning Division <br />based on S.C.S. general soil map units <br />ti <br />f; <br />During the rainy season, south Florida flatwoods may have water on or near the surface. <br />Consequently, soils of the community are generally deep, acidic, poorly to somewhat poorly drained, <br />and moderately coarse textured. In Indian River County, soil types commonly associated with <br />flatwoods are Boca, Eau Gallie, Electra, Immokalee, Myakka, Oldsmar, Pepper, and Wabasso. <br />Typically, the natural vegetation of south Florida flatwoods is scattered pine trees with an understory <br />of saw palmetto and grasses. Trees and shrubs which characterize this community include slash pine, <br />longleaf pine, live oak, dwarf huckleberry, gallberry, saw palmetto, tarflower, shining sumac, and <br />waxmyrtle. Herbaceous plants and vines include chalky bluestem, creeping bluestem panicum <br />grasses, lopsided indiangrass, and pineland threeawn. <br />In conjunction with the U.S. Soil Conservation Service, the State Division of Forestry has identified <br />approximately 15,400 acres of longleaf -slash pine forest in Indian River County. This type of forest <br />is most commonly associated with the south Florida flatwoods community. In this county, the <br />longleaf -slash pine forest is in areas 2.5 to 3 miles wide; these areas are west of the Atlantic Coastal <br />Ridge extending the length of the county. Other areas are in the most western part of the county, <br />west of Blue Cypress Lake. <br />Community Development Department Indian River County 47 <br />