Table CI 

 Partial List of Species With Known Morphological Adaptations for 



Occurrence in Wetlands* 



Species 



Acer negundo 

 Acer rubrum 

 Acer saoaharinum 



Alisma spp. 



Altemanthera philoxeroides 



Avicennia nitida 



Brasenia sahreberi 



Ctadium mariscoides 



Cyperus spp. (most species) 



Eleocharis spp. (most 

 species) 



Forestiera acuminata 



Fraxinus pennsylvanica 



Gleditsia aquatiaa 

 Junous spp. 

 Limnobixm spongia 

 Ludwigia spp. 



Menyanthes trifoliata 

 Myriaa gale 

 Nelumbo spp. 

 Nuphar spp. 



Common Name 

 Box elder 

 Red maple 

 Silver maple 



Water plantain 

 Alligatorweed 



Black mangrove 



Watershield 

 Twig rush 

 Flat sedge 



Spikerush 

 Swamp privet 

 Green ash 



Water locust 

 Rush 

 Frogbit 

 Waterprimrose 



Buckbean 

 Sweetgale 

 Lotus 

 Cowlily 



Adaptation 



Adventitious roots 



Hypertrophied lenticels 



Hypertrophied lenticels; 

 adventitious roots 

 (juvenile plants) 



Polymorphic leaves 



Adventitious roots; inflated, 

 floating stems 



Pneumatophores; hypertrophied 

 lenticels 



Inflated, floating leaves 



Inflated stems 



Inflated stems and leaves 



Inflated stems and leaves 



Multi-trunk, stooling 



Buttressed trunks; adventi- 

 tious roots 



Hypertrophied lenticels 



Inflated stems and leaves 



Inflated, floating leaves 



Adventitious roots; inflated 

 floating stems 



Inflated stems (rhizome) 



Hypertrophied lenticels 



Floating leaves 



Floating leaves 



(Continued) 



* Many other species exhibit one or more morphological adaptations for 



occurrence in wetlands. However, not all individuals of a species will 



exhibit these adaptations under field conditions, and individuals occurring 

 in uplands characteristically may not exhibit them. 



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