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MISSISSIPPI STATE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY 
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Characteristic herbaceous species associated with these 
are: 
Rosa humilis 
Phlox pilosa 
Tradeseantia Virginica 
Psoralea melilotoides 
Te phrosia Virginiana 
Spigelia Marilandica 
Plantago aristata (open 
ground) 
Verbena hastata 
Oenothera sinuata 
Apocynum cannabinum. 
The red sandy hills found occasionally in the prairie region, 
present still another assemblage of plants, the group as a 
whole resembling very closely the flora of the sandy loam 
regions of the North Central Plateau. 
and shrubs are the following: 
Liquidamber styraciflua 
Diospyros virginiana 
‘Sassafras officinale 
Ulmus alata 
Rhus glabra 
The characteristic trees 
Rhus typhina 
Quercus Marilandica 
Vaccinium arborem 
Tecoma radicans 
Vitis rotundifolia 
Hardly less characteristic is the herbaceous growth: 
Ceanothus Americana 
Pentstemon laevigatus 
Phox pilosa 
Specularia perfoliata 
Opuntia sp. 
Aster paludosus 
- Trifolium procumbens 
Krigia Virginica 
Plantago aristata 
Gnaphalium purpureum 
Shrankia sp. 
Stylosanthes elatior 
The soils on the stream bottoms are generally heavy and 
rich, with considerable lime. 
are: 
Quercus velutina 
Quercus alba 
Quercus Durandi 
Quercus nigra 
Quercus Michauxii 
Hicoria alba 
Gleditschia triacanthos 
Cissus bipinnata 
The common trees and shrubs 
Liriodendron tulipifera 
Morus rubra 
Negundo aceroides 
Fraxinus Americanus 
Acer saccharum 
Acer dasyecarpum 
Cornus aspera 
Ulmus fulva 
