Vegetation of grasses (reed, giant cutgrass, big cordgrass, 
maidencane), sedges (carex, spikerushes, threesquares, sawgrass), 
and various other marsh plants such as cattails, arrowheads, 
smartweeds, and arrow-arum. 
Used much by feeding ducks, geese, and herons; very much by musk~ 
rats; and some by nutria, mink, and raccoons, woodcock, and 
13. Deep Fresh Marshes. 
Soil covered _at average high 
tide with s to 3 feet of water 
during the growing season, 
Located along tidal rivers and 
elsewhere on the Atlantic and 
Culf coasts, 

Coastal fresh deep marshes; Type 13. 
Vegetation of plants such as 
cattails, wildrice, pickerel- 
weed, and spatterdocks, often with pondweeds and other submerged 
growths in marsh openings; in the Gulf region, water=hyacinth, 
alligatorweed, and waterlettuce produce surface mats locally. 
Used much in fall and winter by feeding geese, ducks, sora, and 
herons; much by fish, alligators, turtles, and bulifrogs; some 
by muskrats, mink and raccoons, 
1h. Open Fresh Water, 
Water of variable depth. 
Located on the Atlantic, Gulf, 
and Pacific coasts, in tidal 
rivers and sounds, 

Vegetation (mainly at depths 
less than 6 feet; scarce or 
absent in stained or turbid 
waters) of submerged aquatic 
such as pondweeds, naiads, wildcelery, coontail, waterweeds, 
watermilfoils, and muskgrasses, In many localities of the Guif 
region, water=hyacinth forms mats on the water surface, 

Coastal fresh open water; Type 14. 
Used much by feeding ducks and geese and other waterbirds; much 
by fish, turtles, and bullfrogs, 
