Marsh

Marsh Patrick Vinck

Marshes are areas with shallow water that are mostly grasslands. Marshes can be freshwater or saltwater and the amount of water in a marsh can change with the seasons and in the case of salt water marshes, can also change with the tide. They can be found any where in the US. They are above sea level. They can be up to 8 inches or more. Sand to clay, generally no drainage at all, the soil is commonly sour. People define Freshwater Marsh as a marshy area that you can sometimes wade through and is not covered with winter snow. (Rivers, lakes and ponds overlap with this but are a whole lot less muddy. Freshwater Marshes might be called mud holes with plants in them.) Mud everywhere, sometimes deep enough to consume a horse or cow. In a yard the Freshwater Marsh would be the area under the dripping faucet, or where the neighbor's lawn water runs down into your yard killing all your drought tolerant natives. Plant the Freshwater Marsh plant community species there, preferably tall ones to hide your hydrophilic neighbors ugly non native landscape. They can be any where in the world.