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Forested Wetlands at the Watershed Center

A wetland is a lowland area with lots of plants and animals, and wet soils. Wetlands have shallow water and soggy soil. Forested wetlands are swamps with many softwood and hardwood trees. These swamps can be full of hemlock, cedar,spruce, fir, and pines. Some wetlands have canopies that cover ...more ↓

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Sparganium
Large White Trillium 2
Trillium grandiflorum
wood ferns 3
Dryopteris
Violets 1
Viola
Basswood 4
Tilia americana
cinnamon fern 5
Osmundastrum cinnamomeum
Partridgeberry 1
Mitchella repens
Striped Maple 1
Acer pensylvanicum
Cattails 6
Typha
American hophornbeam 7
Ostrya virginiana
Eastern Hemlock 1
Tsuga canadensis
Horsetails 1
Equisetopsida
Fringed Polygala
Polygala paucifolia
american frogbit
Limnobium spongia
Marsh-marigold 1
Caltha palustris
Sugar Maple 1
Acer saccharum
Balsam Fir 1
Abies balsamea
sensitive fern 1
Onoclea sensibilis
Black Willow 8
Salix nigra
Eastern White Pine 9
Pinus strobus
Red Maple 10
Acer rubrum
Pitch Pine 11
Pinus rigida

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