Vegetation of grasses, bulrushes, spikerushes, and various other 
marsh plants such as cattails, arrowheads, pickerelweed, and 
smartweeds. Common representatives in the North include reed, 
whitetop, rice cutgrass, carex, and giant burreed; in the South- 
east, maidencane, sawgrass, and Baker cordgrass, 
Used very much by feeding ducks and occasional other birds in some 
northern localities when flooded in fall and winter; some in 
the North by nesting waterfowl and other birds, by wintering 
pheasants and prairie chickens, by muskrats, and by feeding 
moose; some by waterfowl in Florida; some by deer, raccoons, 
and mink in all regions and much by frogs, 
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4, Deep Fresh Marshes. 
Soil covered with 4 foot to 3 
feet of water during the 
growing season, 
Located principally in glaciated 
country in the northern inland 
States, in the Nebraska sand- 
hilis, and in Florida, where 
they may nearly fill shallow Inland deep fresh marshes; Type 4. 
lake basins, potholes, lime- 
stone sinks, or sloughs, or may border open water in such 
depressions, 

Vegetation mainly of plants such as cattails, reed, round-stemmed 
bulrushes, spikerushes, and wildrice. In open areas, pondweeds, 
naiads, coontail, watermilfoils, waterweeds, duckweeds, water- 
lilies, spatterdocks, or other aquatics may occur. Water-hyacinth 
and waterprimroses form surface mats in some localities in the 
Southeast, 
Used much by feeding and nesting waterfowl and other birds in 
various regions, 
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