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| Class ID | Raster ID | Name | Level | Description | Location | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| M | 500000 | Marsh | 1 | Graminoid and/or herbaceous emergent or floating vegetation in shallow water that stands at or above the ground surface for much of the year. | Found throughout Florida. | |
| MS | 510000 | Salt Marsh | 2 | A marsh consisting of salt tolerant graminoid and/or herbaceous vegetation. | Found along coastal Florida. | |
| MSG | 511000 | Graminoid Salt Marsh | 3 | Graminoid dominated salt marsh. | Found along coastal Florida. | |
| MSGd | 511100 | Saltgrass | 4 | Saltgrass (Distichlis spicata) dominated salt marsh. | Found in salt marshes and flats, brackish habitats and wet marl near the coast; frequent to common, throughout coastal Florida. | |
| MSGj | 511200 | Black Rush | 4 | Black Rush (Juncus roemerianus) dominated salt marsh. | Commonly found in tidal marshes; typical of southwest BICY and southern mainland BISC. | |
| MSGm | 511300 | Keysgrass | 4 | Keysgrass (Monanthocloe littoralis) dominated salt marsh. | Found in salty shores, tidal flats and salt marshes; frequent, coastal south, central, and north Florida. | |
| MSGs | 511400 | Cordgrass | 4 | Sand Cordgrass (Spartina bakeri) and/or Gulf Cordgrass (S. spartinae) dominated salt marsh. | Commonly found in tidal marshes. However, Spartina bakeri can also be found in freshwater marshes. | |
| MSGp | 511500 | Dropseed | 4 | Dropseed (Sporobolus spp.) dominated salt marsh. | Common throughout coastal Florida. | |
| MSH | 512000 | Herbaceous Salt Marsh | 3 | Herbaceous dominated salt marsh. | Found along coastal Florida. | |
| MSO | 513000 | Open Salt Marsh | 3 | Open water dominated salt marsh often with a mix of sparse graminoids and/or herbaceous salt marsh vegetation, such as Black Rush (Juncus roemerianus) and/or Cordgrass (Spartina spp.). | Found along coastal Florida. | |
| MSS | 514000 | Succulent Salt Marsh | 3 | Succulent dominated salt marsh. | Found along coastal Florida. | |
| MSSb | 514100 | Saltwort | 4 | Saltwort (Batis maritima) dominated salt marsh | Found bordering salt ponds, marshes, salt flats and fringes of mangrove mud; common along Snake Bite in EVER. | |
| MSSs | 514200 | Glasswort | 4 | Glasswort (Salicornia spp.) dominated salt marsh. | Found in salt and brackish marshes and flats; throughout coastal regions of Florida; common along Snake Bite in EVER. | |
| MSSe | 514300 | Sea Purslane | 4 | Sea Purslane (Sesuvium spp.) dominated salt marsh. | Found on beaches, dunes, marshes and marsh banks, salt flats and meadows, mangrove fringes, and other wet open places; throughout coastal Florida. | |
| MF | 520000 | Freshwater Marsh | 2 | Freshwater graminoid and/or herbaceous marsh. | Found throughout Florida. | |
| MFB | 521000 | Broadleaf Emergent Marsh | 3 | Broadleaf emergent dominated freshwater marsh. | Found throughout Florida. | |
| MFBa | 521100 | Leather Fern | 4 | Golden Leather Fern (Acrostichum aureum) and/or Giant Leather Fern (A. danaeifolium) dominated marsh. | Found in freshwater, brackish, salt marshes, coastal hammocks, and mangrove swamps; Golden Leather Fern is found in southwestern coastal Florida from Manatee Co. south; Giant Leather Fern is widely distributed both coastally and inland in central and south Florida. | |
| MFBp | 521200 | Pickerelweed | 4 | Pickerelweed (Pontederia cordata) dominated marsh. | Frequent throughout Florida in marshes, streams, ditches, and shallow water of lakes and ponds. | |
| MFBs | 521300 | Arrowhead | 4 | Lanceleaf Arrowhead (Sagittaria lancifolia) and/or Broadleaf Arrowhead (S. latifolia) dominated marsh. | Found throughout Florida in marshes, ditches, swamps, and lake margins. | |
| MFBt | 521400 | Alligator Flag | 4 | Alligator Flag (Thalia geniculata) dominated marsh. | Found throughout south Florida in depression marshes, riverine marshes, open ponds in cypress sloughs, ditches, and canal margins with extended periods of deep inundation. | |
| MFG | 522000 | Graminoid Freshwater Marsh | 3 | Graminoid dominated freshwater marsh. | Found throughout Florida. | |
| MFGc | 522100 | Sawgrass | 4 | Sawgrass (Cladium jamaicense) dominated marsh. | Found in swamps, marshes, shores of lakes, and coastal marshes; dominant plant of the Greater Everglades system, including EVER and the WCAs. | |
| MFGcS | 522110 | Sawgrass-Short | 5 | Sawgrass (Cladium jamaicense) dominated marsh with average height less than 2.5 meters. | ||
| MFGcT | 522120 | Sawgrass-Tall | 5 | Sawgrass (Cladium jamaicense) dominated marsh with average height greater than 2.5 meters. | ||
| MFGe | 522200 | Spikerush | 4 | Coastal Spikerush (Eleocharis cellulosa), Slim Spikerush (E. elongata), and/or Knotted Spikerush (E. interstincta) dominated marsh. | Found in marshes, swamps, rivers, streams, lakes, ponds, ditches, canals, and floodplains; common throughout the Greater Everglades system, including ENP and the WCAs. | |
| MFGj | 522300 | Soft Rush | 4 | Soft Rush (Juncus effusus) dominated marsh. | Typically found in Central Florida and the Kissimmee River. | |
| MFGa | 522400 | Panicgrass | 4 | Maidencane (Panicum hemitomon) and/or Redtop Panicum (P. rigidulum) dominated marsh. | Generally located in shallow water of ponds, lakes, marshes, ditches, and canals; found sporadically throughout the Greater Everglades system. | |
| MFGh | 522500 | Common Reed | 4 | Common Reed (Phragmites australis) dominated marsh. | Found in all types of wet habitats and adjoining banks; found throughout Florida and more frequent in south Florida; commonly located along the canals of the WCAs. | |
| MFGs | 522600 | American Cupscale | 4 | American Cupscale (Sacciolepis striata) dominated marsh. | Found in mostly still water or along banks and shores of canals, marshes, lakes, floating islands, streams, ditches, rivers, glades, pastures, swamps, wet fields, ponds, low pinelands, and wet hammocks; common throughout Florida; occasionally found in disturbed areas along the canals and levees of the WCAs. | |
| MFGt | 522700 | Cattail | 4 | Southern Cattail (Typha domingensis) and/or Broadleaf Cattail (T. latifolia) dominated marsh. | Found throughout Florida; common throughout the greater Everglades in eutrophic soils. | |
| MFGtM | 522710 | Cattail Monotypic | 5 | Greater than or equal to 90% areal coverage of Cattail. | ||
| MFGtD | 522720 | Cattail Dominant | 5 | 50% to 89% areal coverage of Cattail. | ||
| MFGtS | 522730 | Cattail Sparse | 5 | 10% to 49% areal coverage of Cattail. | ||
| MFGz | 522800 | Giant Cutgrass | 4 | Giant Cutgrass (Zizaniopsis miliacea) dominated marsh. | ||
| MFGP | 523000 | Graminoid Freshwater Prairie | 3 | Short hydroperiod marsh characterized by a mix of graminoids that includes low-stature sawgrass (Cladium jamaicense), Muhly Grass (Muhlenbergia capillaris var. filipes), Little Bluestem (Schizachyrium scoparium), Gulfdune Paspalum (Paspalum monostachyum), Beakrush (Rhynchospora spp.), Black Sedge (Schoenus nigricans), among others. | ||
| MFGPc | 523100 | Sawgrass-Prairie | 4 | Sawgrass (Cladium jamaicense) dominated wet prairie (i.e., short hydroperiod marsh) with average height less than 1.5 meters. | Typical component of marl wet prairies. | Ross and others, 2006 |
| MFGPcm | 523200 | Sawgrass-Muhly | 4 | Co-dominant mix of low stature Sawgrass (Cladium jamaicense) and Muhly Grass (Muhlenbergia capillaris var. filipes) dominated wet prairie (i.e., short hydroperiod marsh). | Typical component of marl wet prairies. | Ross and others, 2006 |
| MFGPcps | 523300 | Sawgrass-Paspalum-Little Bluestem | 4 | Mix of low stature Sawgrass (Cladium jamaicense), Gulfdune Paspalum (Paspalum monostachyum), and Little Bluestem (Schizachyrium scoparium) dominated wet prairie (i.e., short hydroperiod marsh). | Typical component of marl wet prairies. | Ross and others, 2006 |
| MFGPcr | 523400 | Sawgrass-Beakrush | 4 | Co-dominant mix of low stature Sawgrass (Cladium jamaicense) and Beakrush (Rynchospora spp.). | Typical component of marl prairies. | Ross and others, 2006 |
| MFGPm | 523500 | Muhly Grass | 4 | Muhly Grass (Muhlenbergia capillaris var. filipes) dominated wet prairie (i.e., short hydroperiod marsh). | Found on sandy or rocky soils of ridges, flatwoods, low woods, swales, saline flats, beaches and dunes; frequent throughout Florida. | Ross and others, 2006 |
| MFGPs | 523600 | Little Bluestem | 4 | Little Bluestem (Schizachyrium scoparium) dominated wet prairie (i.e., short hydroperiod marsh). | Found in open glades, wet prairies and along margins and open areas of limestone pine rocklands; restricted to south Florida from Miami southward to Big Pine Key, including the Everglades Keys. | Ross and others, 2006 |
| MFGPh | 523700 | Black Sedge | 4 | Black Sedge (Schoenus nigricans) dominated wet prairie (i.e., short hydroperiod marsh). | Found in marshes, wet calcareous pinelands and prairies, and limestone outcrops; in south Florida from Pasco Co. to Broward Co. southward to the Keys. | Ross and others, 2006 |
| MFF | 524000 | Floating Emergent Marsh | 3 | Floating emergent dominated freshwater marsh. | Found throughout Florida. | |
| MFFl | 524100 | Duckweed | 4 | Duckweed (Lemna spp.) dominated marsh. | ||
| MFFn | 524200 | Spatterdock | 4 | Spatterdock (Nuphar lutea subsp. advena) dominated marsh. | ||
| MFFy | 524300 | Waterlily | 4 | Waterlily (Nymphaea odorata) dominated marsh. | Common throughout Florida in ponds, lakes, canals, ditches, sloughs, and swamps. | |
| MFFs | 524400 | Water Spangles | 4 | Water Spangles (Salvinia minima) dominated marsh. | ||
| MFH | 525000 | Herbaceous Freshwater Marsh | 3 | Herbaceous dominated freshwater marsh. | Found throughout Florida. | |
| MFHc | 525100 | Water Hemlock | 4 | Water Hemlock (Cicuta mexicana) dominated marsh. | Found throughout Florida along marshy shores, in floating mats of vegetation, swamps, springs, streams and ditches. | |
| MFHi | 525200 | Morning Glory | 4 | Morning Glory (Ipomoea spp.) dominated marsh. | Occasionally found in highly disturbed areas along canals and levees of the WCAs. | |
| MFHm | 525300 | Hempvine | 4 | Hempvine (Mikania spp.) dominated marsh. | ||
| MFHp | 525400 | Smartweed | 4 | Smartweeds (Polygonum spp.) dominated marsh. | Found throughout Florida in swamps, marshes, flood plains, and moist hammocks. | |
| MFO | 526000 | Open Marsh | 3 | Open water dominated freshwater marsh often with a mix of sparse graminoids, herbaceous, and/or emergent freshwater vegetation, such as Spikerush (Eleocharis spp.), Panicgrass (Panicum spp.), low stature Sawgrass (Cladium jamaicense) , Cattail (Typha spp.), Arrowhead (Sagittaria spp.), Pickerelweed (Pontederia cordata), Waterlily (Nymphaea spp.), Green Arum (Peltandra virginica), Swamp-Lily (Crinum americanum), Spider-lilies (Hymenocallis spp.), among others. | Typical of slough or remnant slough areas found throughout the Everglades and WCAs. | |
| MFPO | 527000 | Open Prairie | 3 | Open ground, exposed rock, and/or open water dominated short hydroperiod marsh often with a mix of sparse graminoids and/or herbaceous vegetation, such as Muhly Grass (Muhlenbergia capillaris var. filipes), low stature Sawgrass (Cladium jamaicense), Gulfdune Paspalum (Paspalum monostachyum), Little Bluestem (Schizachyrium scoparium), among others. |
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