Lands transitional between terrestrial and aquatic systems

Soils saturated with water on a periodic basis

Hydrophytes

Marine and estuarine

Lacustrine, riverine, palustrine

Is usually at or near the surface between the unsaturated layer and the saturated layer

Green, grey to black, or molted soil appearance

Hydrophytic vegetation

A shallow submarine plain of varying width forming a border to a continent and ending in a steep slope to the ocean floor

These are situated in a topographic depression or a dammed river channel and lacks trees and shrubs

The 3"Hs" - hydrology, hydric soils, and hydrophytic plants

Lacking or absent of oxygen

Two trees that have special root structures that stick up into the air to obtain oxygen

These exceed 30 parts per thousand

These waters may be tidal or nontidal but salinity is always less than 0.5 %

A wetland area that has water in it at some point during the year, but the wet period may come over longer spans of time

Splotches or patches or brown, black, orange, red, or yellow, are formed in areas where they are usually alternating wet and dry and have little or no vegetation

These extend above the surface of the water and use air spaces in the leaves to take in oxygen?

Deep water tidal habitats and adjacent tidal wetlands that are semi-enclosed by land but have sporadic access to the open ocean

Water level here can be highly variable and contained within a channel

A routinely wet/dry area which fill and drain with the daily tides of the ocean

Grey, bluish-grey, and green soils usually form in

Special root structures called Knees

Plants such as red mangroves and animals such as eastern oysters

These are all inland, nontidal wetlands dominated by trees, shrubs, emergent mosses or lichens