Vegetation (mainly at depths less than 6 feet) of pondweeds, naiads, 
wildcelery, coontail, watermilfoils, muskgrasses, waterlilies, 
spatterdocks, water-hyacinth (in the South), and other aquatics. 
Used much by ducks, geese, and coots where vegetation is plentiful, 
and much by fish, turtles, and bullfregs. 
6. Shrub Swamps. 




Soil normally waterlogged during 
the growing season; often 
covered with as much as 6 
inches of water. 



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Located principally in glaciated 
country in the northern 
States, along the Atlantic 
Coastal Plain, and in the 
Mississippi Valley. Shrub 
swamps occur mostly along sluggish streams and occasionally on 
floodplains. 
Shrub swamps and wooded swamps; Types 6 and 7. 
Vegetation of alders, willows, buttonbush, dogwoods, swamp-privet, 
etc. 
Used considerably by beaver, mink, raccoon, woodcock, and in the 
North, by ruffed grouse and moose. 
7. Wooded Swamps. (See preceding map) 
Soil waterlogged at least to within a few inches of its surface 
during the growing season; often covered with as much as 1 foot 
of water. | 
Located in glaciated country in the Northeast and Lake States, in 
lowlands of the Northwest, and along the Atlantic and Gulf Coastal 
Plains, They occur mostly along sluggish streams, on floodplains, 
on flat uplands, and in shallow lake basins and potholes. 
Vegetation mainly of trees; in the North, of tamarack, arborvitae, 
black spruce, balsam, red maple, and black ash; in the South, 
water oak, overcup oak, tupelo gum, swamp black gum, and cypress; 
and in the Northwest, western hemlock, red alder and willows, 
Northern evergreen swamps usually have a thick ground=covering 
of mosses; deciduous swamps frequently support beds of duckweeds, 
smartweeds, and other herbaceous vegetation, 
