The rocky area in this picture is an example of a glade

A glade is an open area within a woodland. Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (816x616, 233 KB) I took this picture at LaBarque hills during a hike. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (816x616, 233 KB) I took this picture at LaBarque hills during a hike. ...

Glades are a lot like prairies, but Glades offer little or no soil for trees or plants to grow on. They only allow room for cedar trees or small shrub-like plants and moss, for example the slow growing reindeer lichen. Prairie refers to an area of land of low topographic relief that historically supported grasses and herbs, with few trees, and having generally a mesic (moderate or temperate) climate. ... Species Cedrus deodara Cedrus libani    var. ... Binomial name Cladonia rangiferina Reindeer lichen (c. ...

Conditions in glades are predominantly desert-like because the ground is not protected from the sun by trees or other large plants, causing the temperature in a glade to be as much as 20 degrees higher than regular forest temperature.

Sometimes the word is used in a looser sense, as in the treeless wetlands of the Everglades. An Anhinga perched on the boardwalk railing Everglades is also the name of a city in Collier County, Florida. ...

See also

• Gap (ecology)

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