This is the dominant community at Tosohatchee and includes the
seasonally inundated lands adjacent to the St. Johns River and
Tootoosahatchee Creek, James (Jim) Creek, and Taylor Creek swamps.
Extensive stands of sand cordgrass are broken by slightly deeper
depressions and sloughs where pickerelweed, duck potato,
sawgrass, and other aquatic species grow. Shrubs, including wax
myrtle, button bush, and swamp hibiscus also occur in the marsh,
especially along the western edge near the tree line. In deeper
areas of the marsh near the St. Johns River, the cordgrass is
replaced by maidencane and Paspalum species.
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