Plant Community on Granite Outcrop

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Although many plants from the surrounding forest and old-field communities cannot survive on granite outcrops, a unique and highly specialized group of plant species are able to thrive in the thin soil layers on the rock. The soil is shallow at the edges of the outcrop and becomes progressively deeper toward the center.

Photograph by Melinda Smith Mullikin, New Georgia Encyclopedia

Plant Community on Granite Outcrop

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