freshwater marshes
Non-saline boggy areas
Freshwater marshes are wetlands with standing or slow-moving water dominated by grasses, reeds, and sedges rather than trees.
Unlike saltwater marshes, they occur inland—along rivers, lakes, and in poorly drained lowlands.
They support rich ecosystems of waterfowl, amphibians, and fish, and serve as natural filters and flood buffers: The freshwater marshes of the Everglades teem with wildlife.
- sedgesGrasslike wetland plants
- bulrushesTall wetland sedges
- dragonfliesLarge hovering predatory insects
- reedsHollow-stemmed marsh plants
- cattailsTall wetland reed
frogs · frog chorus · turtles · muskrat · wading birds · bittern · red-winged blackbird · crayfish · duckweed · sloughs · Everglades · pickerelweed · tadpoles · anhinga · croaking · wetlands · willows · duck blind
- habitatsforest, ocean, lake, river, pond
- swampsbayou, bayous, bald cypress, cypress swamps, alligators
- wetlandsswamp, swamps, marshes, marshland, marshlands
- coastal lowlandscoastal plains, lowlands, flatlands, tidewater, coastal wetlands
- Southeast landscapesbarrier islands, bayous, Blue Ridge Mountains, bottomlands, coastal plains
- European WetlandsFinnish Lakeland
freshwater marshestidal marshes
Coastal wetlands shaped by seas
tidal flats · coastal wetlands · coastal marshes · tidal wetlands · estuaries