Basin Marsh

Freshwater marsh occurs on nearly level land with poorly drained soils. The marsh contains open expanses of grasses, sedges and rushes and other herbaceous plants.  It is basically a basin swamp with a canopy cover of less than 20 percent.  The soil is usually saturated or covered with water for two hundred days or more during the year. Typical plants include maidencane, sedges, spikerush, smartweed, titi, primrosewillow, American white waterlily, buttonbush, pickerelweed, wax myrtle and Virginia willow.

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