RE: KillieTalk Digest V4 #296

["Carole DeMort" <finfish7 at msn_com>]

In terms of where Sphagnum grows, it's not so much how much inflow or outflow the area gets.  The western part of the Okeefenokee flows almost continually into the Suwannee River and the southeastern section into the St. Mary's River.  I've floated many a canoe down a very rapidly outflowing stream from Billy's Lake (in the Okeefenokee) down to the sill and just did the paddling to avoid the cypress knees and trunks.  There's Sphagnum all over that mixed swamp and, you,re right it's grows in almost every poorly drained wetland in Florida.  It actually forms floating islands in the Okeefenokee.
Carole in Jax 









Carole Lyle DeMort








>From: "DeMarle, Steve" 


>Reply-To: killietalk at aka_org 

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>Subject: RE: KillieTalk Digest V4 #296 

>Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2002 15:59:45 -0400 

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>Scott, 

> 

>Sphagnum doesn't just grow in the far north. The Okeefenokee swamp is loaded with peat and in Florida you can find it growing in nearly any damp acidic area. I'm sure someone will correct me if I'm wrong but sphagnum only forms bogs in areas with little inflow or outflow of water but with constant moisture. In other areas, such as where I find it, it is growing among reeds and sedges or in open damp areas with not enough nutrients to support much but carniverous plants but where it doesn't form into deep layers. I would imagine that unless you live in a desert or dry area such as the high plains there should be some near you, but if not I can get some pretty easily. 

> 

>Steve 

>in humid Jax. 

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>Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2002 13:37:58 -0500 

>From: "Scott Davis" 


>Subject: Re: Spawning media for peat divers 

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> 

> 

>Canadians, Russians or those from the far northern U.S please feel free to 

>correct me, but doesn't spaghnum grow in peat bogs. Several generations and 

>a couple 100 years later the stuff on the bottom has formed what we think of 

>as conventional peat moss? 

> 

>Timing is everything. :) 

> 

>All the best .... 

> 

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