Bottomland forest
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From the Land Cover base
Codes of this category:
- Cottonwood
- Willow oak - water oak - diamondleaf oak
- Live oak
- Swamp chestnut oak - cherrybark oak
- Sweetgum - willow oak
- Sugarberry - American elm - green ash
- Sycamore - sweetgum - American elm
- Black Willow
- Overcup oak - water hickory
- Taxodium distichum
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