Freshwater swamps are wooded wetlands . They have tolerate water for part or all of the year , according to the South Florida Information Access internet site . Some freshwater swamp also feel a teetotal time of year . Plants common in the swamps include cypress and other trees , vines , fern and the " air works , " or aerophyte , that grow on them . Fire , temperature extremes , water levels and the amount of organic fabric in the stain all learn which plants develop in a specific freshwater swamp .

Baldcypress

measure for its unmistakably disintegration - insubordinate wood , baldcypress ( Taxodium distichum ) is a coarse sight in freshwater swamps across the Southern United States . Standing from 50 to 75 ft gamey , it has feathery , sage dark-green leaves and desquamation , silvery or scarlet barque . Often living more than 600 years , ripened bald cypress tree Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree have spreading , flat canopy often festooned with Spanish moss .

Trees always submerged in water modernise shallow , conic root protrusion called " genu , " according to the University of Florida School of Forest Resources and Conservation . Baldcypress seed provender migrating Canada geese , hare and ducks . They also shelter white - tail deer . Baldcypress grows best in full Sunday to fond shade . It needs moist or pie-eyed , acidic ( pH below 6.8 ) sandlike or loamy soil .

Crinum Lily

Like baldcypress , crinum or swampland lily is aboriginal to fresh water swamps across the South . This clumping perennial has a sturdy , 2- to 3 - base stem and long , narrow immature farewell . Between June and November , swampland lily brightens its surroundings with showy clump of fragrant white blooms . Sometimes tinged with pink , the flowers have outer petals that twist backward to make a spherical bloom . The bloom may reach up to 4 inches across , according to the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center . Crinum lily blossom in sun or shade . It require fertile , wet acidic soil but is n’t fussy about soil case .

Cinnamon Fern

Cinnamon fern ( Osmunda cinnamomea ) turn in freshwater swamp from New England and Minnesota south to Florida and west to Texas . Shallow - rooted , it sometimes grows 6 foot tall . Its pubescent fiddleheads – child frond – are silver when they emerge . Becoming more stiff and unsloped as they grow , the fruit - bearing , prolific frond change from unripened to cinnamon . The works also has a circle of sterile fronds surrounding the productive ones , according to the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center . The combination of cinnamon - color intimate and fleeceable outer fronds makes this an attractive landscape painting works . Cinnamon fern handles full sunshine only if it is in standing body of water . Otherwise it require fond to bass shade and moist to wet , acidic soil .

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