The dominant habitat at Hickey's Creek is scrubby flatwoods
composed of slash pine, myrtle oak, Chapman's oak, sand live
oak, and dwarf live oak, with a midstory of wax myrtle,
tarflower, palmetto and hog plum. Understory plants include
gopher apple, wiregrass, shiny blueberry, lichens, reindeer moss
and earth stars. Because of lack of fire, some of the xeric
scrub has reached xeric hammock stage. The area also has much
smaller areas of mesic and hydric flatwoods. Freshwater marshes
in the pine flatwoods are vegetated with fire flag, pickerel
weed, arrowhead, maidencane, cordgrass, St. John's wort,
buttonbush and wax myrtle. Lee County Parks and Recreation Along
Hickey's Creek, trees such as bald cypress, water hickory,
laurel oak and Carolina willow, grow with button bush, water
lettuce, spatter-dock, fire flag, redroot, pickerelweed and
royal, leather and cinnamon fern. Hickey's Creek meanders
through the site for approximately one mile in a southeast to
northwest direction. The area adjacent to the creek i