The Southeastern Pocket Gopher is a deep-soiled sand pine scrub specialist of the southeastern Coastal Plain, dependent on the well-drained, sandy soils of longleaf pine ecosystems. It creates the distinctive conical dirt mounds in longleaf pine flatwoods recognizable to any southern naturalist. The pocket gopher's burrowing is a natural disturbance process that maintains the open, sandy microsites required by many rare plant species.
Habitat
Sandy soils in longleaf pine flatwoods and scrub of the Southeast
Diet
Roots, tubers, bulbs, and underground plant matter
How common
Uncommon
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