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Monday, February 9, 2009

Types of Wetlands

Marshes - Wetlands dominated by soft-stemmed vegetation.

Swamps - Wetlands dominated by mostly woody plants.

Bogs - Freshwater wetlands, often formed in old glacial lakes, characterized by spongy peat deposits, evergreen trees and shrubs, and a floor covered by a thick carpet of sphagnum moss.

Fens - Freshwater peat-forming wetlands covered mostly by grasses, sedges, reeds, and wildflowers.

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