About the Brooksville Plant Materials Center

Updated 08/13/2008

Description of the PMC Service Area

The Brooksville Plant Materials Center in Brooksville, Florida serves Florida, the Caribbean Area, and coastal areas of Alabama, Georgia, and South Carolina. Rainfall varies from 30 inches per year in parts of the service area to more than 200 inches. Soil textures are predominately sandy and well drained, but large areas of clay and poorly drained soils are common. Elevations vary from sea level to a few hundred feet in Florida to more than 4,000 feet in Puerto Rico.

Plant communities are varied and complex. The climate ranges from warm and humid in northern Florida to tropical in the Caribbean. Major land uses include row crop production, rangelands, orchards, forest land, recreation and urban land.

Major problem areas include water pollution, cropland erosion, coastal areas (including sand dunes and marshes), and manmade disturbed sites.

Getting to the Brooksville PMC

The Brooksville PMC is located approximately 6-7 miles north of the City of Brooksville
on US Highway 41, 50 miles north of Tampa , and 15 miles inland from the Gulf of Mexico.
(See map provided below.)

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