WHAT ARE PINE FLATWOODS AND DO ALL PINE FLATWOODS HAVE POTENTIAL HABITAT FOR THIS SPECIES?
Pine flatwoods are open, moist, longleaf/slash pine forests that have a well-developed ground cover of grasses (typically wiregrass). This habitat type occurs along the lower coastal plain. Not all pine flatwoods are suitable for this species. The flatwoods salamander is only found in pine flatwoods that have the appropriate temporary ponds which the salamanders needs for breeding. These breeding ponds are isolated from other waterbodies, dry periodically, and usually have pond cypress, blackgum, or slash pine growing in or around them. These ponds are shallow and have a marsh-like appearance with sedges, grasses, and other herbaceous species in the shallow water edges.
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