Table 4. A. Tree species found in the Apalachicola floodplain (from Leitman 1983 and 

 H. M. Leitman et al. 1982). Included is the relative basal area (in percent) of the 

 top 25 species. B. Area, in acres, of each mapping category for five reaches of the 

 Apalachicola River (from Leitman 1983). 



Common name 



Scientific name 



Ash, Carolina 



Green 



Pumpkin 

 Baldcypress 

 Birch, river 

 Box elder 



Bumelia, buckthorn 

 Buttonbush 

 Chinaberry 

 Cottonwood, swamp 

 Cypress 

 Dogwood, stiff Cornell 



(swamp dogwood'^) 

 Elm, American 



Slippery 



Winged 

 Grape 

 Hawthord, green 



Parsley 

 Hickory, water 

 Hornbeam, American 

 Locust, water 

 Maple, red 

 Mulberry, red 

 Oak, cherrybark 



diamond- leaf 



laurel 



overcup 



swamp chestnut 



water 

 Palmetto, cabbage 

 Persimmon, common 

 Pine, loblolly 



spruce 

 Planertree (water-elm^) 

 Possumhaw holly 

 Silverbell, little 

 Sugarberry (hackberry) 

 Swamp- privet 

 Sweetbay 

 Sweet gum 



Sycamore, American 

 Titi 



Fraxinus caroliniana Mill. (5.4) 

 Frax in us pennsyl vanica Marsh. (2.9 

 Fraxinus profunda (Bush.) Bush. (1.9) 

 Taxodium distichum (L.) Rich. (10.6) 



Betula nigra L, 



TO, 



(0, 



Acer nequndo L. 



Bumelia lycioides (L.) Pers. 



Cephalanthus occidentalis L. 



Melia azedarac h L.^ 



Populus heterophyl la L . (0.4) 



see baldcypress 



Cornus foemina Mill . 



rCornus stricta Lam.b) 

 Ulmus americana L. (2 . 4 ) 

 Ulmus rubra Muhl. 

 Ulmus alata Michx. 

 V i t i s spp.c 

 Crataegus viridis L. 

 Crataegus marshal lii Egqle. 

 Carya aquatica (Michx. f.) Nutt. (2.^) 

 Carpinu s carolinian a Walt. (2.0) 

 Gleditsia aquatica Marsh. 

 Acer rubrum L. (1.5) 

 Morus rubra L. 



Quercus falcata Michx., var. paqodaefolia Ell 

 Quercus laurifolia Michx. (2.5) 

 Quercus hemisphaerica Bartr. (£. laurifol ia 



Michx. '^) 

 Quercus lyrata Walt. (3.2) 

 Quercu s prinus L. (Q_. michauxii Nutt.^) (0.3) 

 Quercus nigra L. (1.8) 

 Dalmetto (Walt.) 



Sabal 



Diospyros virqiniana L 

 Pinus taeda L. 

 Pinus glabra Walt. 

 Planera aquatica Gmel . 

 Ilex decidua Walt. (0. 



Lodd. 



(2.9) 



Halesia tetraptera Ellis. (_H. parvif lora Michx.'') 



Celtis laevigata Willd. (2.8) 



Forestiera acuminata (Michx.) Poir, 



Magnolia virqiniana L. (1.0) 



Liquidambar styraciflua L. (4.8) 



Pla tanus occidental is L . (0.6) 



Cyril la racemif lora L. 



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