BOTANY

Detailed explanation-1: -Some examples of plants that are suitable for this space are elderberry, serviceberry, chokeberry, raspberry, highbush blueberry, persimmon, pawpaw, black walnut, and American hazelnut.

Detailed explanation-2: -Buffers should include a mix of beneficial plant species including native aquatic grasses, upland plants, buttonbush, sedges, rushes, and other flowering species. Popular beneficial plants include pickerelweed, blue flag iris, cardinal flower, lizard’s tail and swamp milkweed.

Detailed explanation-3: -A riparian forest buffer is an area adjacent to a stream, lake, or wetland that contains a combination of trees, shrubs, and/or other perennial plants and is managed differently from the surrounding landscape, primarily to provide conservation benefits.

Detailed explanation-4: -Examples of easily recognized riparian zones include floodplain forests along rivers and streams, the shrubby fringes of lakes, ponds, and streams, sedge-and grass-dominated meadows, as well as damp, braided channels of headwater streams.

Detailed explanation-5: -These differences in vegetation, landform, and geology have led to a wide variety of terms used to denote riparian areas. These include riparian buffer zones, cottonwood floodplains, alluvial floodplains, floodplain forests, bosque woodlands, cienegas, and meadows.