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Pallikaranai marsh is home to 115 species of birds, 10 species of mammals, 21 species of reptiles, 10 species of amphibians, 46 species of fishes, 9 species of molluscans, 5 species of crustaceans, and 7 species of butterflies. About 114 species of plants are found in the wetland including 29 species of grass.
Pallikaranai Marsh. Pallikaranai wetland is a fresh water swamp adjacent to the Bay of Bengal situated in south Chennai with a geographical area of 80 km 2. In 2007, a major portion of the Pallikaranai marshland was declared a reserve forest area and brought under the Tambaram range of the Forest department. The swamp is helpful in charging the ...
Pichavaram consists of a number of islands interspersing a vast expanse of water covered with mangrove forest. [3] The Pichavaram mangrove Forest is one of the largest mangrove forests in India covering about 45 km 2 of area (as of 2019).
Typically, they feed on leaves and bulbs of marsh plants including cattails, brushes, and grasses. [11] They can also feed on other aquatic or marsh plants such as centella, greenbrier vine, marsh pennywort, water hyacinth, wild potato, and amaryllis. [12] Marsh rabbits, like all rabbits, reingest their food, a practice known as coprophagy. [7]
Phragmites is a genus of plants known as reeds. Pondweeds are a family of aquatic plant with a subcosmopolitan distribution. Sagittaria is a genus of plants known as arrowhead or katniss. Salix, the willows, are native to many areas throughout the world, usually in riparian ecosystems.
Tephroseris palustris grows in areas that have freezing winters [9] and in moist to wet soils, such as damp meadows, swamps, sandy pond edges [5] and roadside ditches [10] at altitudes of 0 to 3,300 feet (1,000 m) [4] It is the most common annual plant species in the eastern Canadian Arctic.
Knowing that the area where Kya lives should be near a coastal town, be about two hours or less from Greenville and have both marsh and swamp wetlands, we propose two probable locations for ...
Schoenoplectus acutus (syn. Scirpus acutus, Schoenoplectus lacustris, Scirpus lacustris subsp. acutus), called tule / ˈ t uː l iː /, common tule, hardstem tule, tule rush, hardstem bulrush, or viscid bulrush, is a giant species of sedge in the plant family Cyperaceae, native to freshwater marshes all over North America.