Sawgrass fronts blackwater swamp forest (1)

Figure 13. Freshwater marsh and swamp forest in tidal freshwater section (Photograph by the author. More about the photograph)

Figure 13 is a view of a tidal freshwater section of the river where freshwater marsh dominated by sawgrass fronts a typical blackwater swamp forest. This is about 12 miles from the sea and does not get salt water very often at all. The log in the foreground has some dead barnacles on it, but they may have tolerated the freshwater long enough to begin, but not continue, growth.

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