The Southern coastal plain oak dome and hammock is a forest type occurring in small patches in Florida, Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi.
These forests consist of thick stands of evergreen oaks on shallow depressions or slight hills.
[2][3] Common species are southern live oak (Quercus virginiana), Pignut Hickory (Carya glabra), American Sweetgum (Liquidambar styraciflua), sand laurel oak (Quercus hemisphaerica), and American persimmon (Diospyros virginiana).
They also occur in central and southern Florida in prairies and floodplains, on river levees, and on slopes between dry uplands and wetlands, and are the transition between subtropical and tropical forests releves.
The most common canopy tree in xeric hammocks is the sand live oak, (Quercus geminata).