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Piney woods

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| Piney Woods| | Post Oak Savanna| | Coastal Prairies| | Blackland Prairies| | Texas Ecoregions |

Description: The East Texas region is primarily a thick forest of pines. Swamps are common, particularly in the southern most area of the region which is called the “Big Thicket.”

Size: 23,500 square miles

Topography: The terrain is rolling with lower, wetter bottomlands that grow hardwood trees such as elm, mesquite and ash.

Soil Type: The soils of the region are generally acidic and mostly pale to dark gray sands or sandy loams.



Plant life: Pine, oak, and other hardwood forests Red maple American beech White ash Sweetgum Southern red oak Water oak Red mulberry Eastern redbud Flowering dogwood Southern magnolia Eastern red cedar Long-leaf pine Bald cypress American beautyberry Buttonbush Loblolly pine

Wildlife: Southern short-tailed shrew, Seminole bat, Ringtail, Virginia opossum, Rafinesque's big-eared bat, Eastern cottontail, Common gray fox, Striped skunk, Bobcat, white-tailed deer, Swamp rabbit, Eastern gray squirrel, Eastern flying squirrel, Bull Frog, Attwater's pocket gopher, Marsh rice rat, Eastern harvest mouse, Cotton mouse, Prairie vole,and River otter

Climate: 40-52 inches of rainfall per year. Humidity and temperatures are typically high.

| Piney Woods| | Post Oak Savanna| | Coastal Prairies| | Blackland Prairies| | Texas Ecoregions |