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LF National Plot Count by Existing Vegetation Type (EVT) Fall 2014 LF National plot count by Existing Vegetation Type (EVT). EVT's with no or limited vegetation plot data are listed first. LANDFIRE LANDFIRE Existing Vegetation Type / Ecological Systems Classification Name Number Existing of plots Vegetation Type Code 2069 North Pacific Mesic Low Shrubland 0 2204 Tsuga heterophylla Giant Forest Alliance 0 2207 Chamaecyparis nootkatensis Forest Alliance 0 2212 Artemisia filifolia Shrubland Alliance 0 2218 Purshia tridentata Shrubland Alliance 0 2219 Artemisia arbuscula ssp. arbuscula Shrubland Alliance 0 2221 Yucca glauca Shrub Herbaceous Alliance 0 2222 Artemisia tridentata ssp. wyomingensis Shrub Herbaceous Alliance 0 2223 Gutierrezia sarothrae Dwarf-Shrubland Alliance 0 2337 Southeast Florida Coastal Strand and Maritime Hammock 0 2360 South Florida Pine Rockland 0 2404 West Gulf Coastal Plain Weches Glade 0 2416 Western Highland Rim Prairie and Barrens 0 2419 Southern Ridge and Valley Patch Prairie 0 2424 East-Central Texas Plains Xeric Sandyland 0 2431 Southwest Florida Dune and Coastal Grassland 0 2432 Lower Mississippi Alluvial Plain Grand Prairie 0 2440 Tamaulipan Clay Grassland 0 2441 Tamaulipan Tallgrass Grassland 0 2447 South Florida Cypress Dome 0 2464 Acadian Sub-Boreal Spruce Barrens 0 2465 Acadian Sub-Boreal Spruce Flat 0 2484 South Florida Wet Marl Prairie 0 2496 Caribbean Coastal Beach Systems 0 2500 South Texas Salt and Brackish Tidal Flat 0 2505 Ouachita Novaculite Glade and Woodland 0 2510 Crowley's Ridge Sand Forest 0 2514 Central Florida Herbaceous Pondshore 0 2515 Southern Coastal Plain Herbaceous Seep and Bog 0 2516 Atlantic Coastal Plain Sandhill Seep 0 2520 Southern Atlantic White-cedar Peatland Forest [Provisional] 0 2521 West Gulf Coastal Plain Stream Terrace Sandyland Longleaf Pine Woodland 0 2537 Introduced Wetland Vegetation-Shrub 0 2713 Alaska Arctic Active Inland Dune 0 2716 Aleutian Rocky Headland and Sea Cliff 0 2721 Aleutian Freshwater Aquatic Bed 0 2731 Aleutian Oval-leaf Blueberry Shrubland 0 2735 North American Glacier and Ice Field 0 2829 Hawai'i Alpine Bedrock and Scree 0 2089 Sonoran Brittlebush-Ironwood Desert Scrub 1 Page | 1 2170 Klamath-Siskiyou Xeromorphic Serpentine Savanna and Chaparral 1 2388 Southern Atlantic Coastal Plain Xeric River Dune 1 2427 East Gulf Coastal Plain Jackson Plain Prairie and Barrens 1 2675 Maritime High Alpine Herbaceous 1 2910 Knapweed and Star Thistles 1 2487 Texas-Louisiana Coastal Prairie Pondshore 2 2508 Ozark Prairie and Woodland 2 2710 Alaska Arctic Tidal Flat 2 2725 Aleutian Marine Beach and Beach Meadow 2 2853 Hawai'i Introduced Coastal Wetland Vegetation - Shrub 2 2913 Urban Deciduous Forest 2 2354 Northeastern Interior Pine Barrens 3 2530 Ruderal Wetland 3 2666 Alaskan Pacific Maritime Coastal Dune-Beach and Beach Meadow 3 2669 Temperate Pacific Intertidal Flat 3 2800 Hawai'i Floodplain Forest 3 2802 Hawai'i Riparian Forest and Shrubland 3 2010 Northern Rocky Mountain Western Larch Savanna 4 2312 Ouachita Montane Oak Forest 4 2726 Aleutian Tidal Marsh 4 2807 Northern Polynesia Tidal Salt Marsh 4 2837 Hawai'i Introduced Wetland Vegetation-Shrub 4 2384 Mississippi Delta Maritime Forest 5 2724 Aleutian Nonvascular Peatland 5 2914 Urban Evergreen Forest 5 2073 Baja Semi-Desert Coastal Succulent Scrub 6 2522 Northern Atlantic Coastal Plain Heathland 6 2820 Hawai'i Lowland Mesic Grassland 6 2828 Hawai'i Subalpine Mesic Shrubland 6 2854 Hawai'i Introduced Coastal Wetland Vegetation - Herbaceous 6 2120 Willamette Valley Upland Prairie and Savanna 7 2175 North Pacific Interior Spruce-Fir Woodland and Forest 7 2336 Southwest Florida Coastal Strand and Maritime Hammock 7 2381 Lower Mississippi River Dune Woodland and Forest 7 2455 East Gulf Coastal Plain Southern Loblolly Flatwoods 7 2670 North Pacific Maritime Eelgrass Bed 7 2825 Hawai'i Dry Cliff 7 2386 Acadian-Appalachian Alpine Tundra 8 2663 North Pacific Shrub Swamp 8 2824 Hawai'i Alpine Dwarf-Shrubland 8 2067 Mediterranean California Alpine Fell-Field 9 2090 Sonoran Granite Outcrop Desert Scrub 9 2509 Mississippi River Alluvial Plain Dry-Mesic Loess Slope Forest 9 2656 Alaskan Pacific Maritime Shrub and Herbaceous Floodplain Wetland 9 2804 Hawai'i Freshwater Marsh 9 2811 Hawai'i Wet Cliff and Ridge Crest Shrubland 9 2838 Hawai'i Introduced Wetland Vegetation-Herbaceous 9 2026 Madrean Upper Montane Conifer-Oak Forest and Woodland 10 Page | 2 2411 Great Lakes Wet-Mesic Lakeplain Prairie 10 2413 Bluegrass Savanna and Woodland 10 2728 Aleutian Floodplain Forest and Shrubland 10 2827 Hawai'i Wet-Mesic Coastal Strand 10 2382 Southern Atlantic Coastal Plain Maritime Forest 11 2390 Tamaulipan Mixed Deciduous Thornscrub 11 2457 South-Central Interior/Upper Coastal Plain Wet Flatwoods 11 2470 Caribbean Coastal Wetland Systems 11 2613 Western North American Boreal Active Inland Dune 11 2664 Temperate Pacific Freshwater Aquatic Bed 11 2403 West Gulf Coastal Plain Catahoula Barrens 12 2415 Arkansas Valley Prairie and Woodland 12 2433 East Gulf Coastal Plain Jackson Prairie and Woodland 12 2435 East Gulf Coastal Plain Dune and Coastal Grassland 12 2418 Pennyroyal Karst Plain Prairie and Barrens 13 2822 Hawai'i Montane-Subalpine Dry Grassland 13 2836 Hawai'i Islands Introduced Wetland Vegetation-Tree 13 2101 Madrean Oriental Chaparral 14 2408 Alabama Ketona Glade and Woodland 14 2732 Aleutian Volcanic Rock and Talus 14 2809 Hawai'i Montane Cloud Forest 14 2398 Cumberland Sandstone Glade and Barrens 15 2375 Eastern Serpentine Woodland 16 2445 South Florida Dwarf Cypress Savanna 16 2667 Alaskan Pacific Maritime Rocky Coastline 16 2328 Southern Coastal Plain Limestone Forest 17 2341 Northwestern Great Plains Canyon 17 2506 West Gulf Coastal Plain Nonriverine Wet Hardwood Flatwoods 17 2672 Alaskan Pacific Maritime Subalpine Copperbush Shrubland 17 2823 Hawai'i Montane-Subalpine Mesic Grassland 17 2326 South-Central Interior/Upper Coastal Plain Flatwoods 18 2339 West Gulf Coastal Plain Chenier and Upper Texas Coastal Fringe Forest and Woodland 18 2633 Western North American Boreal Alpine Mesic Herbaceous Meadow 18 2819 Hawai'i Lowland Dry Grassland 18 2831 Hawai'i Dry-Site Lava Flow 18 2434 Texas-Louisiana Coastal Prairie 20 2695 Alaska Arctic Tussock-Lichen Tundra 20 2430 Southern Coastal Plain Blackland Prairie and Woodland 21 2686 Alaska Arctic Non-Acidic Sparse Tundra 21 2729 Aleutian Floodplain Wetland 21 2130 California Mesic Serpentine Grassland 22 2131 California Northern Coastal Grassland 22 2649 Alaskan Pacific Maritime Subalpine Mountain Hemlock Woodland 22 2671 Aleutian American Dunegrass Grassland 22 2806 Hawai'i Bog 22 2852 Hawai'i Introduced Coastal Wetland Vegetation - Tree 22 2005 Pacific Coastal Dunes and Other Sparsely Vegetated Systems 23 2640 Aleutian Mesic-Wet Willow Shrubland 23 Page | 3 2138 North Pacific Montane Grassland 24 2426 Southern Atlantic Coastal Plain Dune and Maritime Grassland 25 2177 California Coastal Closed-Cone Conifer Forest and Woodland 26 2329 East Gulf Coastal Plain Southern Loess Bluff Forest 26 2658 Alaskan Pacific Maritime Dwarf-Shrub-Sphagnum Peatland 28 2674 Alaskan Pacific Maritime Alpine Sparse Shrub and Fell-field 28 2733 North Pacific Montane Massive Bedrock-Cliff and Talus 28 2231 Sequoiadendron giganteum Forest Alliance 29 2491 Acadian Salt Marsh and Estuary Systems 29 2818 Hawai'i Lowland Mesic Shrubland 29 2507 Ozark-Ouachita Shortleaf Pine-Bluestem Woodland 30 2084 North Pacific Montane Shrubland 31 2214 Arctostaphylos patula Shrubland Alliance 31 2134 Columbia Basin Foothill and Canyon Dry Grassland 32 2654 Alaskan Pacific Maritime Sitka Spruce Beach Ridge 32 2657 Alaskan Pacific Maritime Shore Pine Peatland 32 2734 North Pacific Alpine and Subalpine Bedrock and Scree 32 2229 Pinus albicaulis Woodland Alliance 33 2409 Great Lakes Alvar Shrubland 34 2136 Mediterranean California Alpine Dry Tundra 35 2662 Temperate Pacific Freshwater Emergent Marsh 35 2129 California Central Valley and Southern Coastal Grassland 36 2525 Edwards Plateau Riparian 36 2722 Aleutian Freshwater Marsh 36 2429 West Gulf Coastal Plain Southern Calcareous Prairie 37 2333 South Florida Hardwood Hammock 38 2443 South Texas Dune and Coastal Grassland 39 2096 California Maritime Chaparral 40 2451 West Gulf Coastal Plain Wet Longleaf Pine Savanna and Flatwoods 40 2653 Alaskan Pacific Maritime Mesic Herbaceous Meadow 41 2817 Hawai'i Lowland Dry Shrubland 41 2113 California Coastal Live Oak Woodland and Savanna 42 2143 Rocky Mountain Alpine Fell-Field 43 2205 Tsuga mertensiana-Abies amabilis Woodland Alliance 43 2380 East Gulf Coastal Plain Maritime Forest 43 2459 Atlantic Coastal Plain Clay-Based Carolina Bay Wetland 44 2730 Aleutian Sparse Heath and Fell-field 44 2078 Colorado Plateau Blackbrush-Mormon-tea Shrubland 45 2462 West Gulf Coastal Plain Seepage Swamp and Baygall 45 2513 Lower Mississippi River Flatwoods 45 2133 Chihuahuan Sandy Plains Semi-Desert Grassland 47 2230 Pinus sabiniana Woodland Alliance 47 2342 Piedmont Hardpan Woodland and Forest 47 2428 West Gulf Coastal Plain Northern Calcareous Prairie 47 2361 Central Atlantic Coastal Plain Maritime Forest 48 2661 Alaskan Pacific Maritime Fen and Wet Meadow 48 2389 Acadian-Appalachian Subalpine Woodland and Heath-Krummholz 49 2009 Northwestern Great Plains Aspen Forest and Parkland 50 Page | 4 2400 Central Appalachian Alkaline Glade and Woodland 51 2422 Texas Blackland Tallgrass Prairie 51 2538 Introduced Wetland Vegetation-Herbaceous 51 2668 Temperate Pacific Tidal Salt and Brackish Marsh 51 2202 Juniperus occidentalis Wooded Herbaceous Alliance 52 2340 Appalachian Shale Barrens 52 2524
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