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Wooded Osage Plains

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The Wooded Osage Plains ecoregion is a non-glaciated undulating plain with smooth, low, limestone escarpments and small areas of exposed bedrock. Pennsylvanian limestone, sandstone, and shale strata with differential erosion has produced a more rolling topography than in the Cherokee Plains (40d) to the south. The upland prairie has a greater proportion of southwestern plants and animals, a lesser proportion of northern species, and a greater diversity in streamside woody vegetation than the Loess Flats and Till Plains (40a) to the north. Topography of this region also tends to be smoother than the till plains of 40a. The potential natural vegetation is a mosaic of oak-

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