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Common marsh plants of the United States and Canada

Resource Publication 93
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Abstract

This is the fourth of a series of publications on field identification of North American marsh and water plants. It describes the emergent and semiemergent plants most likely to be found in inland and coastal marshes. It omits hundreds of uncommon marsh plants and plants less characteristic of marshes than of marsh edges, lake and stream shores, or wet meadows.


The first of the series, "Pondweeds and Pondweedlike Plants of Eastern North America," Circular 187, was broadened in scope as Resource Publication 44, "Underwater and Floating-leaved Plants of the United States and Canada," and is superseded by it. The present publication, widens the scope of "Bulrushes and Bulrushlike Plants of Eastern North America," Circular 221, and contains most of the species listed therein.


This guide is designed for identification of marsh plants without recourse to technical botanical keys. To use it, read pages 1 to 4 and then look at the drawings. To identify a plant, find the group in which it fits, then find a drawing and description that match it.

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Publication type Report
Publication Subtype Federal Government Series
Title Common marsh plants of the United States and Canada
Series title Resource Publication
Series number 93
Year Published 1970
Language English
Publisher Bureau of Sport Fisheries and Wildlife
Publisher location Washington, D.C.
Contributing office(s) Patuxent Wildlife Research Center
Description v, 99 p.
Country Canada;United States
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