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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 .
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marsh mallow
marsh marigold
Marsh Dame Edith Ngaio
Marsh Othniel Charles
Marsh Reginald
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