The southeastern United States, excluding the peninsula of Florida, once supported open stands of pine and also mixed evergreen and deciduous forest. The mixed forest included a variety of pines, evergreen oaks, and deciduous trees. In much of Florida, the native vegetation is a mixture of deciduous and evergreen trees that are subtropical rather than temperate. In many parts of the Southeast, people have replaced the native vegetation with fast growing species of pines for timber production. In Mexico, tropical rain forests are prominent on the west coast, in the south and east, and in Yucatan. On the south coasts of Mexico and Florida, swamps of mangrove trees are common.
See also: Boreal Coniferous Forest, Eastern Deciduous Forest, Central Grasslands, Desert, Tundra, Coastal Vegetation
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