Along the lower Coastal Plain, from the western panhandle of Florida to the Carolinas, lie approximately ten million acres of deep sands. In northwest Florida the sandhills support chiefly scrub oaks and wiregrass (Aristida stricta). Oaks are mainly turkey oak (Quercus laevis) and bluejack oak (Q. incana). Once an understory to longleaf pine (Pinus palustris), the scrub oaks gained dominance as heavy, indiscriminate logging removed the pines. Today only scattered pines remain, and the oaks and wiregrass prevent seed from these pines from restocking the area.