Types of Plants found in America's Wetland: A Checklist
KEY: 1 = salt marsh; 2 = brackish marsh; 3 = intermediate marsh; 4 = freshwater marsh; 5 = swamp; 6 = dry or usually dry ground
EMERGENT SPECIES
Alligatorweed 4 Alternanthera philoxeroides
Waterhyssop 4 Bacopa monnieri
Sticktight (Fouchette) 4 Bidens cernua or laevis
Sedge 4 Carex spp.
Sawgrass 4 Cladium jamaicense
Elephant ear 4 Colocasia antiquorum
Swamp lily 4 Crinum americanum
Walter's millet 4 Echinochloa walteri
Spikerush 4 Eleocharis spp.
Pennywort 4 Hydrocotyle spp.
Spider lily 4 Hymenocallis caroliniana
Zig-zag stemmed iris 4,5 Iris brevicaulis
Copper iris 4,5 Iris fulva
Giant blue iris 4,5 Iris giganticaerulea
Rush 4 Juncus spp. (freshwater species)
Black rush 1 Juncus roemericanus
Primrose 4,5 Ludwigia ssp.
Eurasian watermilfoil 4 Myriophyllum spicatum
American lotus 4 Nelumbo lutea
Spatterdock 4 Nuphar advena
White waterlily 4 Nymphaea odorata
Banana waterlily 4 Nymphaea mexicana
Maidencane (Paille fine) 4 Panicum hemitomon
Arrow arum 4 Peltandra virginica
* Roseau (Italian lovers) 4 Phragmites communis
Smartweed 4 Polygonum sp.
Pickerelweed 4 Pontederia cordata
*Bulltongue 4 Sagittaria lancifolia
Wapato 4 Sagittaria latifolia
Bullwhip 4 Scirpus californicus
Three-cornered grass 3,4 Scirpus olneyi
*Oyster grass 1 Spartina alterniflora
(Smooth cordgrass)
*Wiregrass 2,6 Spartina patens
Cattail 3,4 Typha spp.
Giant cutgrass 4 Zizaniopsis miliacea
SUBMERGENT SPECIES
Fanwort 4 Cabomba caroliniana
Coontail 4 Ceratophyllum demersum
Widgeongrass 2 Ruppia maritima
Common bladderwort 4 Utricularia vulgaris
FLOATING SPECIES
Mosquito fern 4,5 Azolla carolinensis
Water hyacinth 4,5 Eichhornia crassipes
Duckweed 4,5 Lemna spp.
Common frogbit 4,5 Limnobium spongia
Floating waterprimrose 4 Ludwigia peploides
Water spangle 4,5 Salvinia minima
TERRESTRIAL SPECIES
Swamp Red Maple 6 Acer rubrum var. drummondii
Giant ragweed 6 Ambrosia trifida
Broomsedge 6 Andropogon glomeratus
Aster 6 Aster spp.
Black Mangrove 1,6 Avicennia nitida
Groundsel 6 Baccharis halimifolia
Saltwort 1,6 Batis maritima
Sea ox-eye 1,6 Borrichia frutescens
Hackberry 6 Celtis laevigata
Buttonbush 4,5,6 Cephalanthus occidentalis
Dodder 6 Cuscuta indecora
Fragrant flatsedge 4,6 Cyperus ordoratus
White-topped sedge 4,6 Dichromena colorata
Salt grass 6 Distichlis spicata
Wild ageratum 6 Eupatorium coelestinum
Wooly rosemallow 6 Hibiscus lasiocarpos
Marshelder 6 Iva frutescens
Saltmarsh mallow 6 Kosteletzkya virginica
Primrose-willow 6 Ludwigia leptocarpa
Waxmyrtle 6 Myrica cerifera
* Tupelo gum 5 Nyssa aquatica
Royal fern 4,5,6 Osmunda regalis
Torpedo grass 4,6 Panicum repens
Camphorweed 6 Pluchea camphorata
Eastern cottonwood 6 Populus deltoides
Water oak 6 Quercus nigra
*Live oak 6 Quercus virginiana
Black/dewberry 6 Rubus spp.
*Palmetto 5,6 Sabal minor
Glasswort 1,6 Salicornia spp.
Black willow 6 Salix nigra
Common elderberry 6 Sambucus canadensis
Chinese tallow 6 Sapium sebiferum
Rattlebox 4,6 Sesbania drummondii
Sea purslane 6 Sesuvium portulacastrum
Giant foxtail 6 Setaria magna
Seaside goldenrod 6 Solidago sempervirens
Hogcane (big cordgrass) 6 Spartina cynosuroides
*Wiregrass 2,6 Spartina patens
*Bald Cypress 5 Taxodium distichum
Marsh fern 6 Thelypteris palustris
American elm 6 Ulmus americana
Slippery elm 6 Ulmus rubra
Toothache tree 6 Zanthoxylum clava-herculis
(Hercules-club)
VINES
Peppervine 6 Amelopsis arborea
Railroad vine 6 Ipomoea pes-capre
Marsh morning-glory 6 Ipomoea sagittata
Beach morning-glory 6 Ipomoea stolonifera
Greenbriar 6 Smilax spp.
Deer Pea 4,6 Vigna luteola