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Wetland Shrub Scrub
Phil Manor
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These acid swamp communities composed of titi swamps, bayheads, and shrub bogs
are widespread throughout the area and occupy the shallow depressions
in flatwoods or occur along the borders of creeks and swamps. Common
species of wetland scrub shrub communities include sweetbay, loblolly
bay, swamp bay, red bay, black titi, swamp cyrilla, large gallberry,
fetterbush, and myrtle-leaf holly. Slash and pond pine are often
present. Ground cover except for sphagnum moss may be absent where
the forest canopy has closed. Shrub bogs with open canopies may
have ground cover comprised predominately of sedges.
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