| When customers pull into the parking lot, instead of a paved lot, they find themselves in a typical central Florida piney flatwoods. |
| The presence of shrubs and ground plants in the flatwoods depends on the frequency of fire. |
| Scrubby flatwoods are commonly adjacent to or intermixed and integrated with rosemary scrub. |
| Communities range from xeric habitats such as scrub and scrubby flatwoods to hydric habitats such as floodplain forest and blackwater stream. |
| Although adjacent to dense forests altered by silviculture, vegetation in the swale resembles that of boggy pine savannas or flatwoods. |
| Gap dynamics and the availability of open space differ between rosemary scrub and scrubby flatwoods. |
