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Trumpeter swan with water lilies.


Blazing Star flowers in a tallgrass prairie.

Hydrophytes - plants that are water-tolerant - can invade and survive in places that tend to accumulate water and remain wet, while plants requiring better drained soils tend to be restricted to higher or sandier topographic features, such as alluvial fans, natural levees, and point bars.
Bottomland forest.

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