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The Carolina Sandhills region is characterized by xeric sand community vegetation dominated by pine trees, [9] [10] [11] which caused it to formerly be known as Carolina and Georgia's Piney Woods. Much of the Carolina Sandhills is known for an ecosystem of longleaf pine (Pinus palustris) and wiregrass (Aristida stricta). This ecosystem is ...
Pyxidanthera brevifolia, the littleleaf pixiemoss [3] or sandhills pyxie-moss, is a plant species known only from North Carolina and South Carolina.It occurs in deep, sandy soil such as sand hills and sandy ridgetops, sometimes in open pine-oak woodlands, at elevations of 50–200 m (160–660 ft).
North Carolina is the most ecologically unique state in the southeast because its borders contain sub-tropical, temperate, and boreal habitats. Although the state is at temperate latitudes, the Appalachian Mountains and the Gulf Stream influence climate and, hence, the vegetation (flora) and animals (fauna).
Native Plants Journal. 1 (1): 42– 53. doi: 10.3368/npj.1.1.42. Ashe, William Willard (1897). The Forests, Forest Lands, and Forest Products of Eastern North Carolina. J. Daniels eastern north carolina forests. "North Carolina Cooperative Extension Service - Reforestation of North Carolina's Pines". 14 August 2007.
Weymouth Woods-Sandhills Nature Preserve is a North Carolina state park in Moore County, North Carolina in the United States. Located near Southern Pines, North Carolina, it covers 915 acres (3.70 km 2) [1] in the Sandhills region of the state. Weymouth Woods is the location of the oldest known longleaf pine tree on record, a tree that was ...
Liatris cokeri, also known as Coker's gayfeather and sandhills blazing star (a name it shares with Liatris pilosa), [1] is a plant species in the family Asteraceae and genus Liatris. It is native to North and South Carolina in the United States , [ 2 ] where it is found in habitats such as sand ridges and sandy fields to roadsides; it is also ...