Glossary

• Gleyed
  one of a series of grey soil colors indicating the historic presence of anaerobic conditions
  
  
• Palustrine
  swamp like, relating to a marshy area not continously flooded
  
  
• anaerobic
  not requiring oxygenated conditions; may also refer to organisms that cannot function in an oxygenated environment
  
  
• facultative
  plants that can occur in wetlands under natural conditions; tolerates wetland conditions but may occur in upland conditions also
  
  
• hydric
  containing at least some of the indicators of anaerobic conditions
  
  
• hydrophylic
  water loving, tending to prefer or require saturated conditions
  
  
• hydrophytic vegetation
  The sum total of macrophytic plant life growing in water or on a substrate that is at least periodically deficient in oxygen as a result of excessive water content. (Michigan DEQ Wetland Identification Manual)
  
  
• lacustrine
  lake-like, relating to an area continously flooded
  
  
• obligate
  plants that occur almost always in wetlands under natural conditions; requiring the presence of wetland conditions
  
  
• riverine
  wetland with a lotic water regime.
  
  
• wetland
  those areas that are inundated or saturated by surface or groundwater at a frequency and duration sufficient to support, and that under normal circumstances does support, a prevalence of vegetation typically adapted for life in saurated soil conditions
  
  
• wetland vegetation
  vegetation that is adapted to hydric soils and hydrologic conditions normally found in wetlands