Riparian and Wetland
Educational Photos

Examples of Riparian and Wetland Types of the Northern Great Plains of Montana

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Acer negundo/Prunus virginiana (box-elder/common chokecherry) Habitat Type

 

 

Scirpus maritimus (alkali bulrush) Habitat Type

 

 

Sarcobatus vermiculatus/Agropyron smithii (black greasewood/western wheatgrass) Habitat Type

 

 

Eleocharis palustris (common spikesedge) Habitat Type

 

 

Cottonwood Gallery Forest

 

 Floodplain Dynamics

 

 

Hordeum jubatum (foxtail barley) Community Type

 

 

Fraxinus pennsylvanica/Prunus virginiana (green ash/common chokecherry) Habitat Type

 

 

Populus deltoides/Herbaceous (Great Plains cottonwood/herbaceous) Community Type

 

 

Distichlis spicata (inland saltgrass) Habitat Type

 

 

Mature Stand of the Salix exigua (sandbar willow) Community Type

 

 

Northern Great Plains River Ecosystem

 

 

Salix amygdaloides (peach-leaf willow) Community Type

 

 

Phragmites australis (common reed) Habitat Type

 

 

Salicornia rubra (red glasswort) Community Type

 

 

Young Stand of the Salix exigua (sandbar willow) Community Type

 

 

Artemisia cana/Agropyron smithii (silver sagebrush/western wheatgrass) Habitat Type

 

 

Symphoricarpos occidentalis (western snowberry) Community Type

 

 

Shepherdia argentea (thorny buffaloberry) Community Type

 

 

Agropyron smithii (western wheatgrass) Habitat Type