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Southern  Piedmont / Inner Coastal Plain Mixed Oak Floodplain Swamp – CEGL006498
A mature mixed oak floodplain swamp with large swamp chestnut oak (Quercus michauxii) and overcup oak (Quercus lyrata).  The dense herb layer is dominated by cattail sedge (Carex typhina) and common wood reedgrass (Cinna arundinacea).  In backswamp of the Appomattox River, SE of Ballsville, Powhatan County.

 © DCR-DNH, Gary P. Fleming
Southern  Piedmont / Inner Coastal Plain Mixed Oak Floodplain Swamp – CEGL006498