Riparian and Wetland
Educational Photos

Examples of Riparian and Wetland Types of the Rocky Mountains, Foothills, and Intermountain Valleys of Montana

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Small Mountain Stream

 

High Mountain Lakes

 

High Mountain Pond       

 

High Mountain Meadow

 

Willow Complex

 

 

Populus tremuloides/Cornus stolonifera (quaking aspen/red osier dogwood) Habitat Type

 

 

 

Salix geyeriana/Carex rostrata (Geyer willow/beaked sedge) Habitat Type

 

  

 

Carex rostrata (beaked sedge) Habitat Type, Deschampsia cespitosa (tufted hairgrass) phase

 

 

 

Salix bebbiana (Bebb willow) Community Type

 

Typha latifolia (common cattail) Habitat Type

 

Alnus incana (mountain alder) Community Type

 

 

Populus tremuloides/Poa pratensis (quaking aspen/Kentucky bluegrass) Community Type

 

 

 

 

Abies lasiocarpa/Ledum glandulosum (subalpine fir/Labrador tea) Habitat Type, Ledum glandulosum phase

 

Picea/Equisetum (spruce/horsetails) Habitat Type

 

 

Abies lasiocarpa/Oplopanax horridum (subalpine fir/devil's club) Habitat Type

 

 

 

Abies lasiocarpa/Calamagrostis canadensis (subalpine fir/bluejoint reedgrass) Habitat Type, Ligusticum canbyi (Canby's licorice-root) phase

 

 

 

 

Thuja plicata/Oplopanax horridum (western redcedar/devil's club) Habitat Type

 

 

 

 

Salix geyeriana/Calamagrostis canadensis (Geyer willow/bluejoint reedgrass) Habitat Type

 

 

 

Phalaris arundinacea (reed canarygrass) Habitat Type 

 

 

 

Potentilla fruticosa/Deschampsia cespitosa (shrubby cinquefoil/tufted hairgrass) Habitat Type