MLRA 131 - Southern Mississippi Valley Alluvium Arkansas, Mississippi, Missouri, and Tennessee 93,600 km2 (36,140 mi2)

Potential Natural Vegetation:
This area supports deciduous bottom land forest vegetation. Willow oak, water oak, Nuttall oak, swamp white oak, sweetgum, water tupelo, baldcypress, native pecans, and hickories are the principal species. Black willow, eastern cottonwood, sycamore, sugarberry, and green ash are dominant on the more recent soils. Switchgrass, eastern gamagrass, little bluestem, indiangrass, Florida paspalum, plumegrass, sedges, and rushes are the dominant understory species.

12/16/98