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x Southern Appalachian Northern Hardwood Forest   Northern hardwood forest concept    
Map class of Great Smoky Mountains National Park map (2004)
x Tidal Marsh   Tidal marsh    
Fresh and brackish tidal marshes, including cord grass, wild rice, sawgrass and needlerush alliances.
x Open water   Water    
NC GAP land cover map class.
x Seepage and Streamhead Swamps          
x Maritime Forests and Hammocks          
x Coniferous Regeneration          
x Plantation (Coniferous Cultivated Natural/Plantation)          
x Cypress-Gum Floodplain Forests          
x Successional Deciduous Forests          
x Peatland Atlantic White-Cedar Forest   Swamp      
x Xeric Longleaf Pine   Longleaf Pine      
x Xeric Oak-Pine Forests   Oak-pine forest      
x Coastal Plain Oak Bottomland Forest          
x Coastal Plain Mixed Bottomland Forests          
x Deciduous Cultivated Plantation          
x Exposed Sand          
x Coastal Plain Mesic Hardwood Forests          
x Wet Longleaf or Slash Pine Savanna          
x Tidal Swamp Forest   Swamp      
x Pond-Cypress-Gum Swamps, Savannas and Lakeshores   Swamp      
x Pocosin Woodlands and Shrublands   Pocosin      
x Mesic Longleaf Pine          
x Maritime Pinelands          
x Maritime Scrubs and Tidal Shrublands          
x Interdune Wooded Depression Swamp          
x Coastal Plain Dry to Dry-Mesic Oak Forests          
x Coastal Plain Nonriverine Wet Flat Forests   Swamp      
x Coastal Plain Riverbank Shrubs          
x Agricultural Crop Fields   Agriculture      
x Residential Urban   Residential area      
x Urban Low-Intensity Developed   Urban area      
x Urban High-Intensity Developed and Transportation Corridors   Urban area      
x Agricultural Pasture/Hay and Natural Herbaceous          
x Barren; Quarries, Strip Mines, and Gravel Pits          
x Barren; Bare Rock and Sand          
x Piedmont Xeric Pine Forests          
x Piedmont Dry-Mesic Pine Forests          
x Piedmont Xeric Woodlands          
x P/M Dry-Mesic Oak and Hardwood Forests   Oak-pine forest      
x Xeric Pine-Hardwood Woodlands and Forests   Pine-oak forest concept      
x P/M Submerged Aquatic Vegetation          
x Piedmont/Mountain Emergent Vegetation          
x Riverbank Shrublands          
x Floodplain Wet Shrublands          
x Maritime Grasslands          
x Interdune Herbaceous Wetlands          
x Hypersaline Coastal Salt Flats          
x Ocean Beaches        
Open beach sand.
x Dry Mesic Oak Pine Forests          
x Coastal Plain Mixed Successional Forest          
x P/M Mixed Bottomland Hardwood Forests          
x P Oak Bottomland Forest and Swamp Forest          
x Hemlock Floodplain Forest          
x Dry Mesic Oak Forest          
x Dry Mesic Mixed Forest          
x Spruce/Fir Forest   Spruce-fir forest    
NC GAP 1992 land cover class. High Elevation Frazer-Fir - Red Spruce, Red Spruce and Red-Spruce-Yellow Birch Forests. Tree densities included here include both woodland to forest density. Highly intermixed with Northern Hardwoods, Grassy Balds,...
x Northern Hardwood Forest   Northern hardwood forest concept    
NatureServe ecological system.
x Grassy Bald   Appalachian bald      
x Shrub Bald   Appalachian bald      
x Appalachian Oak Forest          
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