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The Senator (tree)
The Senator was a giant bald cypress (Big Tree) in Longwood, Florida, estimated 2,500-3,500 years old and the largest tree east of the Mississippi until it burned on January 16, 2012.
Typha
Typha (cattail) is a cosmopolitan wetland plant genus of rhizomatous perennials with brown flower spikes. Key species include T. latifolia, T. angustifolia, and the invasive hybrid T. × glauca.
Typha latifolia
Typha latifolia, broadleaf or common cattail, is a cosmopolitan emergent wetland plant of Typhaceae with male and female flower spikes touching; it hybridizes with T. angustifolia to form invasive T. × glauca and is used in wastewater treatment.
Vossia cuspidata
Vossia cuspidata, hippo grass, sole species of genus Vossia, a C4 perennial emergent aquatic Poaceae grass native to Africa and Assam to Indo-China, floating spongy culms to 7 m, IUCN Least Concern, invasive in Egypt's Nile.
Wetland flora of the British Isles
Wetland flora of the British Isles is the plant vegetation of fen, bog, marsh, swamp, and salt-marsh habitats, described as assemblages under the National Vegetation Classification.