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The south Florida pine flatwoods are a flatwoods forest community found in central and southern Florida.
These flatwoods have open canopies of slash pine above a dense understory of low shrubs and grasses in places where low-intensity fires are frequent. Where fires have been suppressed, slash pine, shrubs, and saw palmetto become more dense.
In addition to saw palmetto, the shrubs Appalachian tea , coastal plain staggerbush , dwarf live oak , shiny blueberry , and rosy camphorweed can be found in the flatwoods. Wiregrass is the dominant grass.
This system is similar to Florida dry prairie, but has taller and denser shrub cover.
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