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A quaking bog, schwingmoor, or swingmoor is a form of floating bog occurring in wetter parts of valley bogs and raised bogs and sometimes around the edges of acidic lakes. The bog vegetation, mostly sphagnum moss anchored by sedges (such as Carex lasiocarpa ), forms a floating mat approximately half a meter thick on the surface of water or ...
Volo Bog State Natural Area is a nature reserve in Illinois, United States, preserving Volo Bog. The bog was designated a National Natural Landmark in 1973 as the only remaining open-water quaking bog in Illinois. [1] The site also contains woodlands, savanna, marshes, prairie restoration areas, shrubland and old fields.
Black Spruce Bog Natural Area - a national natural landmark in Michigan's Waterloo State Recreation Area; Big Bog State Recreation Area - a recent addition to the Minnesota state park system; Quaking Bog - 5-acre acid bog tucked into the wooded hills of Theodore Wirth Park on the western edge of Minneapolis, Minnesota
The active raised bog component of the site includes wet, peat-forming high bog, with Sphagnum mosses occurring in “hummocks, pools, wet flats, Sphagnum lawns, flushes and soaks”. [4] The SAC includes two basins of high bog, including wet quaking bog with well-formed pools, with a central mineral ridge running between them.
Active raised bog (Natura 2000 code 7110) Transition mires and quaking bogs (Natura code 7140). The National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS) has included an area of 36.49 hectares at the Red Bog site as a proposed Natural Heritage Area or pNHA. [6] Very close to this site, Poulaphouca Reservoir SAC has also been included as a pNHA.
A quagmire is a floating (quaking) mire, bog, or any peatland being in a stage of hydrosere or hydrarch (hydroseral) succession, resulting in pond-filling yields underfoot (floating mats). Ombrotrophic types of quagmire may be called quaking bog (quivering bog). Minerotrophic types can be named with the term quagfen.
This site has a variety of habitats, including wet and dry heath, bogs, woodland and open water. One of the bogs is a quaking bog, where a floating raft of vegetation covers open water or fluid peat; it has flora such as round-leaved sundew, bog asphodel, hare's-tail cottongrass and cranberry. A golf course occupies much of the heath. [3]
Quaking bog in the Grundloses Moor Grundloser See (lake) Old peat cuttings. The Grundloses Moor (literally: "Bottomless Bog") is the largest, virtually intact raised bog in the district of Heidekreis and a nature reserve in Walsrode in the German state of Lower Saxony.