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The Riverbar Tall Wet Meadow is a narrow band of diverse native perennial grasses and wildflowers. It grows along the border of riverbanks and floodplain forests, or on tall bars that rise well above the water.
Can you find this combination of key features?
Identifying This Natural Community
- Tall native perennial grasses, such as riverbank wildrye, Canadian wildrye, and eastern gamagrass
- A diverse collection of late-season perennial wildflowers such as giant goldenrod, wingstem, cutleaf coneflower, hollow-stem joe-pye-weed, and bear's-foot
- Location: along a riverbank at the edge of a floodplain forest whose overhanging branches may lend some shade