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- Standing water at some portion of the year
- Occurs in shallow or deep basins which collect surface water
- Dominated by variety of herbaceous species
- When dry, may consist of black leaf debris
Trees
Shrubs
Herbs
- Three-way sedge (Dulichium arundinaceum var. arundinaceum)
- Mannagrass (Glyceria acutiflora)
- Wool-grass (Scirpus cyperinus)
- Northeastern bulrush (Scirpus ancistrochaetus)
- Bugleweed (Lycopus uniflorus)
- Pale meadowgrass (Torreyochloa pallida)
- Smartweeds (Persicaria spp.)
- Smartweeds (Persicaria spp.)
- Marsh fern (Thelypteris palustris)
- Sedge (Carex gynandra)
- Short hair sedge (Carex crinita var. crinita)
- Sedge (Carex leptonervia)
- Sedge (Carex stipata)
- Sedge (Carex canescens)
- Sedge (Carex vesicaria)
- Soft rush (Juncus effusus)
- Virginia chain fern (Woodwardia virginica)
- Beggar-ticks (Bidens spp.)
- Dwarf St. John's-wort (Hypericum mutilum)
- Cinnamon fern (Osmunda cinnamomea)
- Royal fern (Osmunda regalis)
- Canadian St. John's-wort (Hypericum canadense)
- Fly-away grass (Agrostis scabra)
- Bladderwort (Utricularia geminiscapa)
- Marsh St. John's-wort (Triadenum virginicum)
- Arrowhead (Sagittaria rigida)
- Wapato (Sagittaria latifolia)
- Spike-rushes (Eleocharis spp.)
* limited to sites with higher soil calcium
Vascular plant nomenclature follows Rhoads and Block (2007). Bryophyte nomenclature follows Crum and Anderson (1981).
International Vegetation Classification Associations:
USNVC Crosswalk:None
Representative Community Types:
Woolgrass Marsh (CEGL006349)
NatureServe Ecological Systems:
Laurentian-Acadian Wet Meadow-Shrub Swamp (CES201.582)
Laurentian-Acadian Floodplain Forest (CES201.587)
NatureServe Group Level:
None
Origin of Concept
Pennsylvania Community Code*
*(DCNR 1999, Stone 2006)
Similar Ecological Communities
Fike Crosswalk
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Pennsylvania Range
Global Distribution
Fike, J. 1999. Terrestrial and palustrine plant communities of Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania Natural Diversity Inventory. Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Recreation. Bureau of Forestry. Harrisburg, PA.
NatureServe 2010. NatureServe Explorer: An online encyclopedia of life Version 7.1. NatureServe, Arlington, VA. Available http://www.natureserv.org/explorer (accessed: 23 November 2011).
Rhoads, Ann F. and Timothy A. Block. 1999. Natural Areas Inventory of Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Bucks County Commissioners, Doylestown, PA.
Rhoads, Ann F. and Timothy A. Block. 2008. Vegetation of Ridley Creek State Park. Report submitted to DCNR, Bureau of State Parks.
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