5. Urbanland

 This community is subject to high water tables during the rainy seasons
 and has limitations for urban development. Water management systems are
 required for urban uses. It is often difficult to establish vegetation on
 steep channel side slopes and infertile spoil. Special techniques may be
 required. Without vegetation, erosion and sedimentation is often a
 problem in some water management systems. Wind erosion is a problem in
 unvegetated areas. This is especially severe in the spring.

 Native plants can be used for beautification and require minimum
 establishment and maintenance. Some of the trees are cabbage palm, dahoon
 holly, gumbo-limbo (south Florida), hawthorns, laurel oak, live oak, and
 thatch palm (south Florida). Some of the shrubs are American beautyberry,
 coral bean, dahoon holly, marlberry, myrsine, sawpalmetto, tetrazygia,
 shining sumac, varnish leaf, waxmyrtle, and wild coffee. Some of the
 herbaceous plants are aster, coneflowers, dayflowers, iris, and sunflower.

 The most important urban wildlife are songbirds and squirrel. Undisturbed
 areas provide good escape cover and travel routes for deer, turkey, and
 similar forms of wildlife.

ENDANGERED AND THREATENED PLANTS AND ANIMALS

The following endangered or threatened plants are not common in this community
but may occur in some instances:

 TREES Silver thatch palm, Coccothrinax argentata

 HERBACEOUS PLANTS Adder's tongue fern, Cheiroglossa palma; Auricled
 spleenwort, Asplenium auritum; cowhorn orchid, Cvrtopodium
 punctatum, Night-scent orchid, Epidendrum nocturnum; Bird's
 nest spleenwort, Asplenium serratum

The following endangered or threatened wildlife species may be found in or
around this community:

 MAMMALS Everglades mink, Mustela vison evergladensis; Florida panther,
 Felis concolor coryi

 BIRDS Caracara, Caracara cheriway auduboni; Bald eagle, Haliaeetus
 leucocephalus; Wood stork, Mycteria americana

 REPTILES Eastern indigo snake, Drvmarchon corais couperi