Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center

Classification of Natural Ponds and Lakes
in the Glaciated Prairie Region

Plate 8


jpg -- Seasonal Pond, Slightly Brackish, Cover Type 3 (III-B-3).
Plate 8. Seasonal pond, slightly brackish, cover type 3 (III-B-3). Shallow-marsh zone composed of central open-water phase surrounded by normal emergent phase that is dominated by slough sedge (Carex atherodes) and whitetop (Scolochloa festucacea). June 25, 1964, Stutsman County, N. Dak.


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