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Wetland Swamp Forests Zone 9

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Dominated by mixed deciduous hardwoods. Soils are composed of silts and other sediments with variable amounts of peat and other organic matter and are fairly fertile. Flooded most of the year.

Canopy tree

Swamp Bay (Persea palustris)

Pond Cypress (Taxodium ascendens)

Bald Cypress (Taxodium distichum)

Red Maple (Acer rubrum)

Sweet Bay Magnolia (Magnolia virginiana)

Coastal Plain Willow (Salix caroliniana)

Swamp Tupelo (Nyssa biflora)

Pop Ash (Fraxinus caroliniana)

Water Hickory (Carya aquatica)

Understory tree

Swamp Dogwood (Cornus foemina)

Swamp Bay (Persea palustris)

Coastal Plain Willow (Salix caroliniana)

Buttonbush (Cephalanthus occidentalis)

Pop Ash (Fraxinus caroliniana)

Shrub

Swamp Rose (Rosa palustris)

Scarlet Hibiscus (Hibiscus coccineus)

Buttonbush (Cephalanthus occidentalis)

Titi (Cyrilla racemiflora )

Virginia Willow (Itea virginica)

Vine

American groundnut (Apios americana)

Groundcover

Yellow Canna (Canna flaccida)

Twinflower (Dyschoriste humistrata)

Water Primrose (Ludwigia repens)

Water Pepper (Persicaria hydropiperoides)

Golden Club (Orontium aquaticum)

Hop Sedge (Carex lupulina)

Shallow Sedge (Carex lurida)

String Lily (Crinum americanum)

Lizard's Tail (Saururus cernuus)

Horsetail (Equisetum hyemale var. affine)

Blue Flag Iris (Iris savannarum)

Groundcover-fern

Wood Fern (Thelypteris kunthii)

Swamp Fern (Telmatoblechnum serrulatum)

Royal Fern (Osmunda regalis)

Groundcover-grass/grasslike

Hop Sedge (Carex lupulina)

Shallow Sedge (Carex lurida)

Wildflower

Yellow Canna (Canna flaccida)

Scarlet Hibiscus (Hibiscus coccineus)

Twinflower (Dyschoriste humistrata)

Dotted Smartweed (Persicaria punctata)

String Lily (Crinum americanum)

Skyflower (Hydrolea corymbosa)

Blue Flag Iris (Iris savannarum)

Aquatics

Golden Club (Orontium aquaticum)