Freshwater Marsh
Extensive areas of freshwater marsh are associated with Fisheating Creek west of Lake Okeechobee for several miles including Cowbone Marsh and Rainey Slough. Species present, varying in abundance and dominance, include sawgrass, sand cordgrass, soft rush, pickerelweed, arrowhead, maidencane, water hyssop, and cattail. Buttonbush, Carolina willow, and wax myrtle are also associated with these marshes.
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