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  • Within the abandoned course, bald cypress and/or water tupelo typically grow in the channel adjacent to a strip of wet bottomland hardwood forest dominated by overcup oak and water hickory.

    Ecoregions of the Mississippi Alluvial Plain (EPA) 2009

  • Forests are generally dominated by bald cypresswater tupelo forest in wettest areas, overcup oak-water hickory forest in slightly higher and drier areas and Nuttall oak forest in the highest and driest areas.

    Ecoregions of the Mississippi Alluvial Plain (EPA) 2009

  • Forests of these “sandponds” are generally dominated by overcup oak, water hickory, willow oak, pin oak and other species.

    Ecoregions of the Mississippi Alluvial Plain (EPA) 2009

  • Natural vegetation that otherwise would have been dominated by species of wet sites (e.g. overcup oak) are instead dominated by willow oak, water oak, and delta post oak.

    Ecoregions of the Mississippi Alluvial Plain (EPA) 2009

  • Sandpond forest communities are generally dominated by overcup oak, water hickory, willow oak, and pin oak; understory in a few sandponds may include pondberry (Lindera melissifolia), federally listed as endangered.

    Ecoregions of Arkansas (EPA) 2008

  • Within an abandoned course, bald cypress and water tupelo often grow in the modern stream channel adjacent to a strip of wet bottomland hardwood forest dominated by overcup oak and water hickory.

    Ecoregions of Arkansas (EPA) 2008

  • Native vegetation in wettest areas is generally dominated by bald cypress – water tupelo forest; slightly higher and better drained sites have overcup oak – water hickory forest; and highest, best-drained areas support willow oak or Nuttall oak forest.

    Ecoregions of Louisiana (EPA) 2008

  • Within an abandoned course, bald cypress and/or water tupelo typically grow in the modern stream channel adjacent to a strip of wet bottomland hardwood forest dominated by overcup oak and water hickory.

    Ecoregions of Louisiana (EPA) 2008

  • Native vegetation in the wettest areas is generally dominated by bald cypress – water tupelo forest; slightly higher and better drained sites have overcup oak – water hickory forest and the highest, best-drained areas support Nuttall oak forest.

    Ecoregions of Arkansas (EPA) 2008

  • Beyond the overcup oaks that blot out the sky, a murder of crows is mobbing a hawk, and Ervin uses the raucous cawing to camouflage the sound of his stalk.

    Squirrel Town, USA: Hunting the Cajun Passover 2004

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