Natural Communities of Wisconsin
Geological Features and Primary Communities:
Lakes and ponds: Ephemeral Pond Lake-- deep, hard, drainage or seepage Lake-- deep, soft, drainage or seepage Lake-- deep, very soft, seepage Lake-- hard bog Lake-- meromictic Lake-- oxbow Lake-- shallow, hard, drainage or seepage Lake-- shallow, soft, drainage or seepage Lake-- shallow, very hard, drainage [marl] Lake-- soft bog Lake-- spring Lake-- unique Spring pond
Savannas and Woodlands: Cedar glade Great Lakes barrens Oak barrens Oak openings Oak woodlands Pine Barrens
Shrub Communities: Alder Thicket Bog relict Muskeg Patterened peatland Shrub-carr
Streams and Spring Runs: Spring and spring runs, hard or soft Stream-- fast, hard, cold or warm Stream-- fast, soft, cold or warm Stream-- slow, hard, cold or warm Stream-- slow, soft, cold or warm
Upland Forests: Boreal forest Central sands pine-oak forest Forested ridge and swale Hemlock relict Mesic cedar forest Mesic floodplain terrace Northern dry, dry-mesic, or mesic forest Pine relict Southern dry, dry-mesic, or mesic forest
Upland Herbaceous Communities: Bracken grassland Dry, dry-mesic, or mesic prairie Sand barrens Sand prairie
Wetland Forests: [Northern] hardwood swamp [includes black ash swamp Black spruce swamp Floodplain forest Forested seep Northern wet forest Northern wet-mesic forest [includes white cedar swamp] Southern hardwood swamp Tamarack [poor] swamp Tamarack [rich] swamp [includes tamarack fen] White pine-red maple swamp
Wetland Herbaceous Communities: [Northern] poor fen Boreal rich fen Calcareous fen Central poor fen Coastal plain marsh Emergent aquatic and/or wild rice Interdunal wetland Northern sedge meadow Open bog Sand meadow Shore fen Southern sedge meadow Submerged aquatic and/or oligotrophic marsh Wet or wet-mesic prairie

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