NJ key wetland species ID

A large canopy tree, often multi trunk in wet soil’s, with smooth light gray upper canopy bark

Red maple (Acer Rubrum) FAC

A large canopy tree, often multi trunk in wet soil’s, with smooth light gray upper canopy bark

Red maple (Acer Rubrum) FAC

A tall, straight canopy tree with corky, rigid bark.

Sweet Gun (Liquidambar styraciflua) FAC

A tall, straight canopy tree with corky, rigid bark.

Sweet Gun (Liquidambar styraciflua) FAC

A classic “drooping “canopy profile, the lower branches point sharply down towards the ground, the middle branch is a horizontal, the upper branches point up

Pin Oak ( Quercus palustris) FACW

A classic “drooping “canopy profile, the lower branches point sharply down towards the ground, the middle branch is a horizontal, the upper branches point up

Pin Oak ( Quercus palustris) FACW

A tree with branches that stick out at perfect 90° right angle from the main trunk. Bark breaks into thick chunks resembling alligator skin.

Black Gum/Tupelo (Nyssa sylvatica) FAC

A tree with branches that stick out at perfect 90° right angle from the main trunk. Bark breaks into thick chunks resembling alligator skin.

Black Gum/Tupelo (Nyssa sylvatica) FAC

Dance, spire, like evergreen stands, choking out, sunlight, characteristic of acidic South Jersey/Pine Barrens, Boggs

Atlantic white cedar (chamaecyparis thyiodes) OBL

Dance, spire, like evergreen stands, choking out, sunlight, characteristic of acidic South Jersey/Pine Barrens, Boggs

Atlantic white cedar (chamaecyparis thyiodes) OBL

A dense, multi stemmed, understory shrub, growing beneath the forest canopy and low, damp areas

Spice bush (Lindera benzoin ) FACW

A dense, multi stemmed, understory shrub, growing beneath the forest canopy and low, damp areas

Spice bush (Lindera benzoin ) FACW

A thicket of street, woody, stem, shooting straight up from the ground, like a bundle of rods

Arrow wood Virburnum (Viburnum detatum) FAC

A thicket of street, woody, stem, shooting straight up from the ground, like a bundle of rods

Arrow wood Virburnum (Viburnum detatum) FAC

A tangled, what is shrub, common in acidic woods, swamps, and the pine barrens edge

Highbush Blueberry, (Vaccinium corymbosum) FACW

A tangled, what is shrub, common in acidic woods, swamps, and the pine barrens edge

Highbush Blueberry, (Vaccinium corymbosum) FACW

Shrub, growing along open. Marsh edges, or streambanks, often with weeping branches, that touch the ground

Silky Dogwood (Cornus amomum) FACW

Shrub, growing along open. Marsh edges, or streambanks, often with weeping branches, that touch the ground

Silky Dogwood (Cornus amomum) FACW

Sprawling shrub, growing directly out of standing water or deep mud at edge of ponds and flood planes

Button Bush (Cephalanthus occidentalis) OBL

Sprawling shrub, growing directly out of standing water or deep mud at edge of ponds and flood planes

Button Bush (Cephalanthus occidentalis) OBL

A massive, thick “Harry “Woody vine, climbing, straight up tree trunks or threading against ground cover. Three distinct leaflets.

Poison ivy (toxicdendron, Radicans) FAC

A massive, thick “Harry “Woody vine, climbing, straight up tree trunks or threading against ground cover. Three distinct leaflets.

Poison ivy (toxicdendron, Radicans) FAC

A vibrant green carpet of massive, low growing leaves covering a muddy swamp or seepage slope.

Skunk Cabbage (Symplocarpus foetidus) OBL

A vibrant green carpet of massive, low growing leaves covering a muddy swamp or seepage slope.

Skunk Cabbage (Symplocarpus foetidus) OBL

A dense, tall, stand of flat, green ribbons in completely open, sunlit, marshes, or roadside ditches.

Broadtail Cattail (Typha latifolia) OBL

A dense, tall, stand of flat, green ribbons in completely open, sunlit, marshes, or roadside ditches.

Broadtail Cattail (Typha latifolia) OBL

Lush, dense patches of bright green herbs, growing in Shady, muddy spots, often mix with nettles and poison ivy.

Jewelweed / Touch-Me-Not (Impatiens Capensis) FACW

Lush, dense patches of bright green herbs, growing in Shady, muddy spots, often mix with nettles and poison ivy.

Jewelweed / Touch-Me-Not (Impatiens Capensis) FACW

Massive, structural “mounds“ or pedestals of grass, like foliage, rising directly out of standing water or deep mud

Tussock Sedge (Carex Stricta) OBL

Massive, structural “mounds“ or pedestals of grass, like foliage, rising directly out of standing water or deep mud

Tussock Sedge (Carex Stricta) OBL

Clumps of pale green, deeply divided, plants carpeted along the forest floor in wet, shady spots.

Sensitive Fern (Onoclea sensibilis) FACW

Clumps of pale green, deeply divided, plants carpeted along the forest floor in wet, shady spots.

Sensitive Fern (Onoclea sensibilis) FACW

A tight, round, tuft of bright green, pin, straight rods, radiating outward from a single point any Whitfield or ditch.

Soft Rush (Juncus effusus) FACW

A tight, round, tuft of bright green, pin, straight rods, radiating outward from a single point any Whitfield or ditch.

Soft Rush (Juncus effusus) FACW

Clumps of broad leaves, emerging directly out of shallow, slow, moving water, or tidal mudflaps

Arrow Arum (Peltandra virginica) OBL

Clumps of broad leaves, emerging directly out of shallow, slow, moving water, or tidal mudflaps

Arrow Arum (Peltandra virginica) OBL

Dense colonies of thick, broad leaves, growing in shallow water, Long Pond margins in calm River edges.

Pickerel weed (Pontederia cordata) OBL

Dense colonies of thick, broad leaves, growing in shallow water, Long Pond margins in calm River edges.

Pickerel weed (Pontederia cordata) OBL

Tall, slender perennial herb standing upright in wet meadows, ditches, and sunny floodplain edges.

Swamp Milkweed (Asclepias incarnata) OBL

Tall, slender perennial herb standing upright in wet meadows, ditches, and sunny floodplain edges.

Swamp Milkweed (Asclepias incarnata) OBL

Invasive, bamboo-like, woody growths

Knotweed (Polygonum Cuspidatum) FACU

Invasive, bamboo-like, woody growths

Knotweed (Polygonum Cuspidatum) FACU