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Ace Basin Reserve, South Carolina

Flora (Plant Life)

Flora associated with the habitats within the ACE Basin National Estuarine Research Reserve include live oak, slash pine, southern magnolia, red bay and cabbage palmetto, with sub canopy of southern red cedar and shrub layer of wax myrtle and yaupon holly. Shell-mound buckthorn is a rare flora.

Other plant species include bald cypress, Canby’s dropwort, sea oats, smooth cordgrass and wild rice.

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