| Although adjacent to dense forests altered by silviculture, vegetation in the swale resembles that of boggy pine savannas or flatwoods. |
| The open savannas where the earliest bipeds evolved were hot, with little shade, and the effect of the sun would have been severe. |
| There are also some limited extensions of gallery forests and palm tree savannas. |
| It is a perennial forb that prefers dry, sterile, and sandy soils, often in dry, open woodlands, savannas, or clearings. |
| Our Pleistocene hominid forebears were exploiters of the savannas and their adjacent gallery forests. |
| In 1708, the area around their towns consisted of open oak woodlands, savannas, and prairies. |
