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

A glade is an open area within a woodland.

Glades are a lot like prairies, but offer little or no soil for trees to grow on. They only allow room for cedar trees, small shrub-like plants, grass and moss, for example the slow growing reindeer lichen.

Conditions in glades may be 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.

There are several different types of glades. This is usually determined by the bedrock underlying the plant life. Limestone, dolomite, sandstone, chert, and igneous are common types of glades in the U.S. Glades usually occur in the vicinity of elevated highland plateaus such as the ozarks and the appalachians.

Sometimes the word is used in a looser sense, as in the treeless wetlands of the Everglades.

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See also

• Gap (ecology)

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