Table 1. Ground cover attributes. All numbers are percent cover except the litter scores. The estimate of each plant class coverage was not discounted if there was other vegetation above, below, or intertwined within plants as they were quantified. Therefore summing all the measured classes within a site may give a total coverage > 100%. Litter score is the average litter score of the 56 vegetation samples in a plot. Exposed ground is the average percent of ground not covered by ground cover vegetation. Sites are ordered by their percent herbaceous cover (the sum of Aristida stricta and other herbaceous plants)..

site 231 336 208 3 7 101 306 322 22 73 79 77 total herbaceous cover 2.4 14.1 28 43.2 49.6 58.3 59.4 63.5 64.4 88 88 89 total woody cover 102.2 73.3 64.2 45.4 67.2 31 62.3 63.4 37 8.1 17 21 Aristida stricta 1.8 10 20.4 41.5 45.2 37.7 43 39.6 53.2 58 67 71 other herbaceous 0.6 4.1 7.5 1.7 4.4 20.6 16.5 24 11.2 31 22 18 Serenoa repens 29.7 12 15.3 10.7 10.2 15.8 19.1 24.2 7.1 1.1 11 18 Ilex sp. 4.2 3.1 15.2 20.6 20.4 12.9 24.6 15.2 26.2 3.3 0.5 1.3 Quercus sp. 57.5 41.8 15.4 5.5 18.3 0.2 4.3 8.1 0 0 4.3 0 other woody 10.8 16.5 18.3 8.6 18.3 2.1 14.2 15.9 3.7 3.7 1.1 1.8 litter score 1.8 1.9 2.5 2.4 2 1.9 1.8 1.8 1.7 2 1.1 2 Exposed ground 18.9 26.8 33.8 19.6 18.4 29.2 19.7 13.7 13.6 12 13 19