Native Plant Communities

Alluvial Streams are rivers and streams characterized by turbid water with suspended silt, clay, sand and small gravel. These streams generally have floodplains with natural levees, oxbow lakes, and other features characteristic of repeated stream erosion and deposition.

Florida has few Alluvial Streams.  The biggest is the Apalachicola River, though it loses much of its potential silt load right before it begins in Lake Seminole.  Others with alluvial characteristics at least seasonaly are the Yellow, Escambia, and Choctawahatchee Rivers.