Type 4 - Deep Marsh

Wetland Type 4 - Deep Marsh

  • Soil: Inundated
  • Hydrology: Usually covered with 6 inches to 3 feet or more of water during growing season
  • Vegetation: Cattail, reed, bulrush, spikerush, and wild rice; open areas may have pondweed, naiad, coontail, watermilfoil, waterweed, duckweed, waterlily, and spatterdock
  • Common sites: May completely fill shallow lake basins, potholes, limestone sinks, and sloughs; may border open water in such depressions
  • NWI Symbols: L2ABF, L2EMF and G, L2US, PABF and G, PEMG and H, PUBB and F

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