Photos
of Wetland Plants You've Seen in Class!
Many of these images are from the US Department of Agriculture's PLANTS database. See also Texas A&M University's huge online image gallery (from the Bioinformatics Working Group).
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Lobelia elongata (longleaf lobelia) |
Lobelia siphilitica (a similar species) |
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Carex sp. (sedge) |
Carex lurida (a common wetland species) |
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Ilex coriacea (large gallberry) |
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Lyonia lucida (fetterbush) |
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Cassandra calyculata (leather-leaf) |
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Peltandra sagittaefolia (white arrow arum) -- RARE |
Leaf
and Fruit,
NC/SC/GA
County Range Map |
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Magnolia virginiana (sweetbay) |
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Quercus nigra (water oak) |
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Rhynchospora sp. (beakrush, beaksedge)) |
R. inexpansa (many look similar) |
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Taxodium distichum (baldcypress) |
Leaves
and cones
(U. South Florida) |
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Clethra alnifolia (pepperbush, sweet pepperbush) |
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Salix sp. (willow) |
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Liquidambar styraciflua (sweetgum, redgum) |
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Hydrocotyle sp. (pennywort) |
H. bonariensis: Leaf, Flower cluster |
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Hypericum stans (St. Andrews cross) (Note: The PLANTS database shows H. hypericoides ssp. hypericoides as "St. Andrews cross"; I don't know if this is H. stans) |
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Alnus serrulata (tag alder, hazel alder) |
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Mikania scandens (climbing hempweed, climbing hempvine) |
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Pluchea sp. (stinkweed, marsh fleabane, camphorweed) |
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Baccharis
halimifolia
(groundsel-tree, silverling, sea-myrtle, |
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Callicarpa americana (American beautyberry) |
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Arundinaria gigantea (cane, switchcane, giant cane) |
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Pontederia cordata (pickerelweed) |