Pocosin
About this photograph
Photograph by LaVonda Walton, 2006.
- Provider
- U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
- Date created
- April 24, 2006
- Location
- North Carolina
- License
- This work is believed to be in the public domain. Users are advised to make their own copyright assessment and to understand their rights to fair use.
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Pocosin is a type of wetland with evergreen trees and low shrub vegetation growing in peat or sandy soils. Sometimes called shrub bogs, pocosins are typically found in the Atlantic coastal plain in poorly drained uplands between streams and floodplains. Pocosin soils are typically saturated with groundwater except during times of drought. The word pocosin is derived from an Algonquin Indian word that means “swamp on a hill.” This photograph shows a low tree pocosin in the Alligator National Wildlife Refuge, North Carolina.
