Latest edit of a low altitude flight over sedge meadows I made last June. These ditches run through Poygan State Wildlife Area in Wisconsin. Some were dug to help drain nearby farmland and some were dug decades ago for ducks and other wildlife.
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- Aquatic Plants: Submergent, Emergent, Floating-leaf and Free-floating
- Emergent Plants
- Broadleaf Cattail (Typha latifolia)
- Common Reed (Phragmites australis)
- Creeping Spikerush Eleocharis palustris
- Hardstem Bulrush Schoenoplectus acutus
- Invasive Cattails (Typha angustifolia T. x glauca)
- Pickerel-weed, Pontederia cordata
- Softstem Bulrush Schoenoplectus validus
- Stiff Arrowhead Sagittaria rigida
- Threesquare Bulrush (Scirpus pungens)
- Water Smartweed (Polygonum amphibium)
- White Beak-Rush Rhynchospora alba
- Wild Rice Zizania spp.
- Floating-Leaf Plants
- Free-Floating Plants
- Submergent Plants
- Common Bladderwort (Utricularia vulgaris)
- Common Waterweed (Elodea canadensis)
- Coontail / Hornwort (Ceratophyllum demersum)
- Curlyleaf Pondweed (Potamogeton crispus)
- Eurasian Water-milfoil (Myriophyllum spicatum)
- Horned Bladderwort (Utricularia cornuta)
- Horned Pondweed Zannichellia palustris
- Muskgrass (Chara spp.)
- Northern Water milfoil Myriophyllum sibiricum
- Sago Pondweed (Stuckenia pectinata)
- Water Stargrass, Herteranthera dubia (Jacq.) MacMill
- Wild Celery (Vallisneria americana): Food for Wildlife
- Emergent Plants
- Ferns, Mosses etc
- Wildflowers
- Blue Vervain (Verbena hastata)
- Boneset (Eupatorium perfoliatum)
- Common Cocklebur Xanthium strumarium
- European Marsh Thistle (Cirsium palustre)
- Flat-topped Goldenrod (Euthamia graminifolia)
- Flowering Rush Butomus umbellatus
- Grass Pink Calopogon tuberosus
- Great water-dock (Rumex orbiculatus)
- Jack-in-the-pulpit (Arisaema triphyllum)
- Jewel-weed (Impatiens capensis): Cures that Itch
- Marsh Marigold (Caltha palustris): The First to Welcome Spring
- Marsh Milkweed (Asclepias incarnata): A Blast of Color in Wetlands
- Marsh St. Johnswort Triadenum fraseri
- Nodding Beggarticks Bidens cernua
- Northern Blue Flag Iris (Iris versicolor)
- Pipewort (Eriocaulon aquaticum)
- Pitcher Plant (Sarracenia purpurea)
- Round-leaved Sundew Drosera rotundifolia,
- Skunk Cabbage (Symplocasrpus foetidus) A Flower With A Furnace
- Smooth Ironweed (Vernonia fasciculata)
- Spotted Joe-Pye-Weed (Eupatorium maculatum)
- Stiff Cowbane (Oxypolis rigidior)
- Water Lobelia (Lobelia dortmanna)
- Grasses and Grass-like Plants
- Canada Bluejoint Grass (Calamagrostis canadensis)
- Common or Giant Bur-reed (Sparganium eurycarpum)
- Reed Canary Grass (Phalaris arundinacea): An Aggressive Invader
- River Bulrush (Scirpus fluviatilis): Hiding Endangered Birds
- Tussock Sedge (Carex stricta): A Mound Building Plant
- Wool-grass (Scirpus cyprinus): Stands Above the Rest
- Trees, Shrubs and Vines
- American Basswood (Tilia americana): A Wood Carvers Dream
- American Hornbeam, Carpinus caroliniana A Small Tree that’s as Tough as Nails
- Black Spruce (Picea mariana)
- Bog Rosemary (Andromeda glaucophylla)
- Eastern Cottonwood (Populus deltoides): The Tree That Makes Snow
- Green Ash, Fraxinus pennsylvanica: Will it Soon be Endangered?
- Leatherleaf (Chamaedaphne calyculata)
- Northern White Cedar (Thuja occidentalis): The Tree of Life
- Red Osier-Dogwood, Cornus stolonifera
- Speckled Alder
- Swamp-White Oak (Quercus bicolor)
- Tamarack (Larix laricina)
- Virginia Creeper (Parthenocissus quinquefolia)
- White Meadowsweet (Spiraea alba): A Bit of White in The Green World
- Wetland Indicator Status: How Wet Does a Plant Get
- Aquatic Plants: Submergent, Emergent, Floating-leaf and Free-floating
- Wetland Plant Communities
- Fox Wolf Winnebago
- Upland Plants