See Also: marsh gas(dictionary)
marsh gas(medicine)
marsh(dictionary)
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Marsh(dictionary)
marsh(encyclopedia)
marsh mallow(encyclopedia)
marsh marigold(encyclopedia)
freshwater marsh(medicine)
Marsh Harbour(tourism)

marsh (sh)




Freshwater or marine wetland ecosystem characterized by poorly drained mineral soils and by plant life dominated by grasses.

Fewer plant species grow in marshes than on well-watered but not waterlogged land; grasses, sedges, and reeds or rushes are most common. Commercially, rice is by far the most important freshwater marsh plant: it supplies a major portion of the world's grain. Salt marshes are formed on intertidal land by seawater flooding and draining, and salt-marsh grasses will not grow on permanently flooded flats. See also swamp.