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Bottomland hardwood forest

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The Bottomland hardwood forest is a type of deciduous hardwood forest found in US broad lowland floodplains along large rivers and lakes. [1]

12 relations: Alluvium, Biome, Cypress knee, Deciduous, Gulf Coast of the United States, Mississippi River, Oak, Taxodium distichum, Temperate broadleaf and mixed forest, The Nature Conservancy, Tupelo, Upland and lowland.

Alluvium

Alluvium (from the Latin alluvius, from alluere, "to wash against") is loose, unconsolidated (not cemented together into a solid rock) soil or sediments, which has been eroded, reshaped by water in some form, and redeposited in a non-marine setting.

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Biome

A biome is a community of plants and animals that have common characteristics for the environment they exist in.

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Cypress knee

A cypress knee is a distinctive structure forming above the roots of a cypress tree of any of various species of the subfamily Taxodioideae.

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Deciduous

In the fields of horticulture and botany, the term deciduous (/dɪˈsɪdʒuəs/) means "falling off at maturity" and "tending to fall off", in reference to trees and shrubs that seasonally shed leaves, usually in the autumn; to the shedding of petals, after flowering; and to the shedding of ripe fruit.

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Gulf Coast of the United States

The Gulf Coast of the United States is the coastline along which the Southern United States meets the Gulf of Mexico.

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Mississippi River

The Mississippi River is the chief river of the second-largest drainage system on the North American continent, second only to the Hudson Bay drainage system.

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Oak

An oak is a tree or shrub in the genus Quercus (Latin "oak tree") of the beech family, Fagaceae.

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Taxodium distichum

Taxodium distichum (bald cypress, cypress, southern-cypress, white-cypress, tidewater red-cypress, Gulf-cypress, red-cypress, or swamp cypress) is a deciduous conifer in the family Cupressaceae that grows on saturated and seasonally inundated soils in the lowlands of the Southeastern and Gulf Coastal Plains of the United States.

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Temperate broadleaf and mixed forest

Temperate broadleaf and mixed forest is a temperate climate terrestrial biome, with broadleaf tree ecoregions, and with conifer and broadleaf tree mixed coniferous forest ecoregions.

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The Nature Conservancy

The Nature Conservancy is a charitable environmental organization, headquartered in Arlington, Virginia, United States.

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Tupelo

Tupelo, genus Nyssa, is a small genus of deciduous trees with alternate, simple leaves.

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Upland and lowland

Upland and lowland are conditional descriptions of a plain based on elevation above sea level.

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Redirects here:

Hardwood bottom forest, Hardwood bottom forests.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bottomland_hardwood_forest

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