"There are no other Everglades in the world. They are, they have always been, one of the unique regions of the earth; remote, never wholly known. Nothing anywhere else is like them."
Marjory Stoneman Douglas
geology and landforms
In the Everglades may different types of vegetation can be found, depending on elevation, where the location is, and where differences of a few feet can have consequential effects. The first type of vegetation is sawgrass marsh, which is the heart of the Everglades. The environment in the Everglades is quite inexperienced. The current Everglades embraces about only 1/10 of the authentic area. There is an immensely solid limestone bottom. Even during the wet season you can still walk across the Everglades. The sawgrass is one of the first green plants left on Earth. During the wet season the roots are thoroughly covered by water, but in the dry season marshes are occasionally desolated by fire. Fire is actually effectual, because it discards dead sawgrass which tends to compile. Sawgrass marsh is the symbol of the Everglades ecosystem which is exclusive.
The next vegetation is pinewood forest, which is found at the highest elevations. At one time a plethora of the eastern border was masked by these forests. the forest that exists today is the only part left. fires which occasionally come through the park areas essential for the survival of the pine forests, clearing the older and advocates growth. Without fire, pineland regions will become overpopulated, rather than open wit more room for oxygen, and eventually overruled by hardwood trees. The pine forests make up half the plant species.
Another type of vegetation in the Everglades are Hardwood hammocks. The hammock creates its own protective environment, often a little lower temperatures than the other parts of the glades. The hammock served as places for the indians of the everglades to live because they are so dry. one of the most famous hammock is the Mahogany hammock. Mahogany hammock includes a .3 mile boardwalk nature trail which allows the visitor to experience the inside of the hammock. Many of these trees have been logged for the really good quality and persistence of their wood. Many trees have been annihilated by fire, hurricanes, and logging because of that they no longer reseed by natural processes , and therefore are likely sooner or later to recede.