User:BubbaJuice/Heath vs. Scrub

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Scrub - Shrubs, bushes, and/or stunted trees.

Heath - Low lying shrubs and bushes, especially if they are spread out.

Wood - An area of prominently trees.

Type Image Explanation
Scrub
Dense waist-high shrubs/bushes.
Heath
Low lying woody with woody plants from the Ericaceae family.

This may look like grassland but the wood makes it heath.


This in the traditional sense and in OSM is heath but OSM has adopted a different definition.

Scrub
Dense waist-high shrubs/bushes.
Heath
Spread out low lying shrubs.
Scrub
Spread out waist-high shrubs.
Scrub
Medium sized bushes with taller trees.
Scrub
Waist high bushes and cacti in combination with smaller trees.
Difficult: Multiple
Dense eye-level scrub with some small sections of dense scrub in the background but mostly heath because

of how spread out the individual bushes are.

Difficult
Heath with spread out trees and cactus.
Multiple
Heath in the foreground to wood in the middle-ground and in-between the two is scrub.

Drawing the dividing line between the three requires interpreting their heights and cross referencing them with pictures from here if you are not sure.

Wood
In this difficult scenario we have a wood canopy over some dense scrub.
Wood
This not as difficult scenario we have clearly prominently trees of a decent height.