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err►ergent ve�etatiort such as cattails, bulrushes, arrowheads, and lake sed�es characterize this <br />community. <br />Wet Meadows — According to the description given by Eggers and Reed, Wet meadows are <br />dominated by grasses, such as (the nonnatives) redtop and reed canary grass, and by native forbs <br />such as giant goldenrod, growing on saturated soils. This description reflects a disturbed <br />condition that is found in many wetlands �oday. <br />The MN DNR publication, Minnesota's Native Vegetation: A Key to Nate�ral Comnaunities <br />describes Wet Meadows as follows: The ground fayer is composed of a dense, closed stand of <br />predominately wide-leaved sedge sach as tussock, lakebank, and Hayden's sedges; and the <br />grasses bluejoint, rattlesnake grass, rice cutgrass, and white grass. Common forbs include <br />spotted joe pyc weed, boneset, mint, turtlehead, marsh milkweed and others. Shrub cover ranges <br />from about 0 to 70 percent and is composed of several species of willows, and red osier <br />dogwood. Wet meadows occur on wet rruneral soil, muck, or peat. Standing water from several <br />inches to one foot deep �s gencrally present in the spring and after heavy rain, but the water table <br />is generally at, or below the ground surface for most of the growing season. Draining, excessive <br />water level fluctuation and nutrient influx, as well as removal of fire can all lead to a conc�ition of <br />Iowcred quality as descried by Eggers and Reed. <br />Shrub Swam s— Shrub swamps are wetland plant communitzes dominated by woody vegetation <br />less then 20 feet in height and a DBH of iess than 6 inches. Shrub swamps of Minnesota and <br />Wisconsin are categorized as shrub carrs and alder thickets depending on the dominant shrub <br />species. Both occur on or�anic soils (peaVmuck) as well as on the alluvial mineral soils of <br />floodplains. <br />Wooded Swam s— Wooded swamps are forested wetlands dozninated by mature conifers and <br />lowland hardwood trees. They are usually associated with ancient Iakc basins and retired <br />riverine oxbows. The wooded swamps of Minnesota and Wisconsin arc clivided into two types <br />dependin� an whether the dominant trees are conifers or hardwoods. Rosevillc does not contain <br />coniferous swamps and the hardwood swamps are generaIly the outside ring of wet meadows or <br />shalio�v marshes. <br />City of Rosevalle 16 <br />Pcrrks Natr�rad Resoi�rce Manage��ient <br />