Wind-Tidal Tupelo - Bald Cypress Swamp - CEGL004651

A young stand of bald cypress (Taxodium distichum) over black needlerush (Juncus roemerianus) and other marsh herbs.  Wind-tidal swamps occur on peat that is indistinguishable from marsh peat, and probably replaced – and continue to replace – marshes in a long-term successional process.   Along a tributary of the Northwest River, just north of the North Carolina line, City of Chesapeake.