The Miami Rock Ridge slants northeast to southwest, from the Broward County line into Everglades National Park.
Plants favor pine rockland habitat.
There you will find more plant species, more endemic plants and more rare plants than in any other habitat in South Florida. Most of this diversity is among the inconspicuous understory plants and herbs. Pine rockland is also the habitat humans favor. We built our cities, farms and groves on the Miami Rock Ridge because it was dry land, easy to build on and easy to farm. When wild plants and humans both like the same place, wild plants usually suffer.