Welcome to one of the highest habitats in the Everglades, the Hardwood Hammock. We are standing on a limestone ridge known as the Miami Rock Ridge or the Atlantic Coastal Ridge. That is a mountain for the flat landscape of south Florida. The hardwood hammock is one of the few places that stays dry year-round. A hardwood hammock is like an island of emerald forest that pops up around the Everglades. Each hammock is unique. They come in different sizes and they have different combinations of plants. Hardwood refers to the broad leaf trees. It is also called tropical because most hammock plants in Everglades National Park are from the tropics.
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