Jug Bay - Chesapeake Bay, MD

Flora (Plant Life)

Jug Bay is a tidal wetland complex surrounded by upland forest and scattered farm fields. Plant life in the area includes hardwood forest species, such as Spanish oak, hickory, sweet gum, American beech, tuliptree and other poplars, red maple and sassafras and related understory vegetation.

Non-tidal wetland species include cardinal flower, red turtlehead and skunk cabbage. Tidal wetland species include wild rice, pickerel weed, spatterdock, rose mallow and phragmites. The dominant plant species is wild rice. This along with other seed-bearing plants such as water millet and smartweed, is food for as many as 25,000 waterfowl during winter months.

Jug Bay

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