|High Pine, Sandhill, Clayhill ||High pine is a temperate to
peninsular climate ecosystem on hilltops and gentle slopes. It
is characterized by excessively drained soils (if sand, the
community is sandhill; if clayey, clayhill). High pine is a
pyrophytic plant community with a natural fire frequency of 2-5
years. It typically has widely spaced longleaf pine and/or
turkey oak with wiregrass understory. Absence of pines is
usually due to past management, especially logging and usually
results in a sandhill dominated by xeric oaks, especially turkey
oak. Fire suppression can result in a shift toward scrubby
vegetation - a so-called scrubby sandhill. High Pine - a
controlled burn is in progress. ||Scrubs occur in all Florida
climates (temperate, peninsular, subtropical) on old dunes with
deep fine sand soils that are excessively drained. This is a
fire-dependent community with an occurrence of 20-80 years.
Scrub is in a sense fire-resistant, but when a burn occurs, it
is typically hot. Scrub is characterized by s