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Southeastern Plains
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↑About the Southeastern Plains
The Southeastern Plains region encompasses much of the coastal plain of the southeastern U.S., stretching from Maryland southwest to Mississippi, with small amounts extending into Louisiana and Tennessee.This region is mostly flat and relatively low in elevation, but not quite as flat or low as the Southern Coastal Plain and Mississippi Alluvial Plain. The climate is a humid subtropical climate, with stronger seasonality of temperatures as one moves north. Precipitation tends to be evenly distributed throughout the year.
Naturally this area had a mix of different forest types. Much of the area had pine forests, with Longleaf pine (Pinus palustris) a dominant species in much of the area, and Loblolly pine (Pinus taeda) extending farther north. There were some mixed oak-hickory-pine forests throughout the region, and the southern part of this region had some southeastern mixed forests, with a mixture of broadleaf evergreens, deciduous evergreens, and pines. Floodplains had deciduous forests, and there were also some cypress swamps.
This area is utilized for both agriculture and forestry. There are some small to moderate cities, but no large metro areas located in this region, although the northernmost reaches, which are narrow, include parts of the metro areas of Washington, DC and Baltimore, MD.
This region is bordered along the East coast by the Middle Atlantic Coastal Plain and farther south, by the Southern Coastal Plain. Along the Mississippi river, this region is bordered by the Mississippi Valley Loess Plains. Inland, on the east coast, this region is bordered by the Piedmont and Northern Piedmont regions. This region then wraps around the southernmost border of the Appalachians and borders several different ecoregions belonging to them.
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1. Wiken, E., Griffith, G. "North American Terrestrial Ecoregions - Level III", Commission for Environmental Cooperation, (2011) Web.