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GUIDE TO NEBRASKA'S WETLANDS
SELECT WETLAND SPECIES
PLANTS
SALINE
• Saltwort
• Saltgrass
WET MEADOW AND EDGE SPECIES
• Cottongrass
• Marsh marigold
• Western prairie-fringed orchid
• Swamp rose mallow
• Spotted touch-me-not
• Swamp milkweed
• Smartweed
• Beggar's tick
• Barnyard grass
• Marsh skullcap
• Marsh fern
• Sedges
• Water cress
EMERGENT
• Cattail
• Arrowhead
• Sweet fl ag
• Bulrush
• Water hemlock
• Wild rice
• Common reed
SUBMERGENT AND FLOATING
LEAFED
• Bladderwort
• Pondweed
• Water lily
WOODY
• Willow
• Buttonbush
• Dogwood
• Elderberry
• Silver maple
• Cottonwood
• Sycamore
INTRODUCED
• Purple loosestrife
• Reed canary grass
ANIMALS
NON-INSECT INVERTEBRATES
• Daphnia
• Scud (Amphipod)
• Leech
• Pond snail
• Freshwater mussel
• Crayfi sh
INSECTS
• Water scorpion
• Damselfl y
• Dragonfl y
• Water strider
• Water boatman
• Common backswimmer
• Predaceous diving beetle
• Whirligig beetle
• Salt Creek tiger beetle
• Midge fl y
• Mosquito
• Monarch butterfl y
• Western tiger swallowtail
butterfl y
• Great gray copper butterfl y
Select plants and animals that
occur in and around Nebraska
wetlands. Includes common,
unusual, and threatened and
endangered species. Underlined
species are on the State of
Nebraska endangered/threatened
list. Bolded species are also on the
federal endangered/threatened
list.
PLANTS AND ANIMALS
Western prairie-fringed orchid.
DAKOTA ALTMAN, PLATTE BASIN TIMELAPSE
Bladderwort is a carnivorous plant. It has
a showy yellow fl ower above the water,
but its underwater leaves have bladders
that can capture very small aquatic
animals. ETHAN FREESE, PLATTE BASIN TIMELAPSE
Pond snail. ETHAN FREESE, PLATTE BASIN TIMELAPSE
Crayfi sh. ETHAN FREESE, PLATTE BASIN TIMELAPSE
